I thank the deputy minister for that
detail. As I understand it, for better or for worse there are nurse practitioners out there on term positions. They haven’t been made permanent, in other words.
That said, I’m under the understanding that this section, through this type of program, goes out to continue to find more potential nurses to become nurse practitioners who we don’t have jobs for. As I understand it, the situation is that you need to be a practising nurse practitioner in order to keep your credentials active and useful. It’s not a question of losing typical RN status. It’s more in the sense of how are we investing. If we continue to pay people to become nurse practitioners when we don’t have positions for them, that’s a concern. If I can get some information as to how they deliver this program for nurse practitioners. How many do they train? What positions exist for this transition from training to practical work?