Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the whole issue of ranking of our nursing staff has come up a number of times over a number of years and involves the union, ourselves, the nursing fraternity, and we're trying to address this. When the Government of the Northwest Territories went through a job evaluation process and ranked its employees, initially we had come to a conclusion that a nurse is a nurse is a nurse and they were all paid at one level. That was implemented and put in place. The nursing groups challenged that, appealed it. We then went through the process and accepted that we had to redo that work. Looked at again a whole evaluation process for our facilities and the nurses and then came up with a ranked system of specialties. That was implemented and, as well, just as we have to proceed, the process of staffing and service levels in the hospital have been put in place and we've now had, for example, two of those levels combined on one ward from time to time. We are now going through the process of making some changes so that those nurses that work on one ward are paid at the same level. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Floyd Roland on Question 197-15(5): Stanton Territorial Hospital - Accreditation Of Staff
In the Legislative Assembly on October 26th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 197-15(5): Stanton Territorial Hospital - Accreditation Of Staff
Question 197-15(5): Stanton Territorial Hospital - Accreditation Of Staff
Item 7: Oral Questions
October 25th, 2006
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