Nunavut nurse hunters comb Newfoundland

Recruiters from the Nunavut government’s department of health and social services were in St. John’s, Corner Brook, Gander, and Grand Falls-Windsor this week, hunting for experienced nurses willing to work in Nunavut.

The Telegram newspaper of St. John’s reported that two Nunavut recruiters, Roxanne Stuckless, the executive director of the Baffin Regional Hospital, and Lori Barbour, Nunavut’s nursing manager, are once again back in Newfoundland to recruit nurses for Nunavut’s perennially understaffed health-care system.

Stuckless and Barbour are Newfoundlanders themselves.

Starting salaries range from $56,600 to $68,900, and nurses may also earn $24,000 labour market if they stay in Nunavut for three years.