A registered nurse dwelling on PEI desires to know why she is not eligible for a recruitment incentive.
Lisa Moore obtained a job provide from a provincial manor, however stated she was shocked when she did not see any point out of the motivation, valued at hundreds of {dollars}, in her letter of provide.
“I felt very discouraged as a result of I had already secured the place and after I reached Heath PEI, I used to be advised I did not qualify,” she stated.
Moore moved from Ontario to the Island 5 years in the past after working in the USA for years.
She did not work when she moved to PEI for quite a lot of causes, which included the dying of her youngsters’s father, childcare points in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a automobile accident.
These circumstances should not disqualify her, she advised CBC Information.
“Folks have lives, so typically issues get interrupted. Does that imply we needs to be disqualified?” she stated.
In an emailed assertion to CBC Information, the Division of Well being clarified why Moore is not eligible.
“For the skilled nursing stream, candidates should be residents of a jurisdiction outdoors of PEI and can’t work as an RN in PEI or have labored as an RN in PEI inside the previous 6 months,” the division stated.
Moore does not qualify as a result of she’s been dwelling on the Island for 5 years.
She stated the standards for the motivation should not be one-size-fits-all.
“Every particular person one that’s making use of needs to be handled on a person foundation,” she stated. “The foundations have to be modified as a result of they put too many RNs out of the system, out of the motivation. They kicked them proper out.”