If the Province is offering incentives and searching the globe to fill nursing positions, then why are so few graduating nursing students being offered full-time permanent positions? We heard from two of those students who are asking that very question

CBC Newfoundland Morning

The Provincial government is casting a wide net in search of nurses to work here in Newfoundland and Labrador. Efforts are underway o fill positions in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, St. Anthony and Gander, using trained nurses from India. There are also Come Home Incentives of up to 50-thousand dollars, being offered to nurses who have been living outside the province for six months. We' also heard this week about millions being paid to agencies providing travel nurses to this province. It's all an effort to fill about 700 vacant nursing positions. Chloe George and Hayley Cheeseman are fourth-year nursing students at the Centre for Nursing Studies in St. John's. They say they're confused with the effort and money spent on recruiting nurses -

while the majority of their graduating class aren't even being offered full-time permanent positions.