Labrador to train nurses

A new program in Labrador aims to reduce the high turnover of nurses by training local Inuit nurses who want to work and live in the region.

The program was developed with support from the Newfoundland and Labrador government, the Labrador Institute and the Labrador Inuit Association, in cooperation with the College of the North Atlantic, the province’s public college.

The program, to start in January, 2005, will allow 16 Inuit to complete their high school studies and take first-year university courses together in modules at the College of the North Atlantic’s site in Happy Valley/Goose Bay. The students will stay in Labrador for a second year of nursing studies before heading off to Cornerbrook, Newfoundland for the final two years of the program.