The Ontario government’s $25,000 signing bonus and benefits associated with ‘externships’ have helped keep many nurses from accepting jobs across the border in Michigan
Melissa Mastroianni, 21, a recent graduate of the nursing program at the University of Windsor, stands outside Windsor Regional Hospital - Met Campus where she's soon starting a permanent job on the oncology ward, on June 14.That’s because Ms. Mastroianni, a University of Windsor student who wanted to start her career close to home, could choose to live in Windsor and work in Detroit, where prominent research hospitals have always been eager to hire Canadian nurses.
As of April 1, just 2.7 per cent of registered nursing jobs were vacant at Windsor Regional, the only acute-care hospital network in the city of 230,000. That was down from a high of 12.5 per cent in 2021. At one point during the pandemic, 28.5 per cent of registered nurse jobs in the emergency department were vacant.government paying $25,000 signing bonuses, which have helped neutralize incentives long offered by Michigan hospitals, and to an “externship” program that Ms.
As the pandemic dragged on, spurring an exodus of experienced nurses, the externship program became a recruitment tool that helped Windsor Regional replenish its ranks. The province stepped in with dedicated funding in 2021, eventually making the externship program permanent and available to all publicly funded hospitals.
The proximity of Detroit hospitals to Windsor means that Erin Hodgson, Windsor Regional’s external recruitment co-ordinator, faces fiercer competition for nurses at job fairs than her counterparts at other hospitals.
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