UNB’s preceptorship and dual degree aim to decrease barriers for nurses from India so they can practise in N.B.
A small group of nursing students and faculty from India are now in New Brunswick as part of a program that aims to eventually supply the province with 100 new nurses.
Michelle Christien is entering her last year at MAHE and has been gaining hands-on experience by visiting a Horizon hospital to better understand the differences between health care in New Brunswick and back home. She said she immediately spotted some differences. “When roles are divided, it is easier to care for the patient and there is good interdisciplinary communication and a relationship which helps in promoting the patient's health.”Christien also had the opportunity to discover the city of Fredericton as part of the cultural side of her stay and said it is “very calm and very peaceful.”
“The nurses here spend a lot of time with the patients and back there, essentially, they cannot because they have such a workload,“ he said. “This is a way that we can meet two deliverables: one, that we respect [nurses'] knowledge so there's no de-skilling, and the other is that we are able to support the workforce,” said UNB’s Dean of Nursing, Lorna Butler. She noted that nurses from other countries are often put in positions below their education, a problem she calls de-skilling.There are roughly 1,000 vacant positions across the province, the New Brunswick Nursing Union said back in January.
“Students undergo the curricular requirement of both the MAHE curriculum and also they will also fulfill the requirements of the UNB program … so that they will have the competencies which are required of both the countries,” said Noronha.To qualify for the program, nursing students in India need to complete Grade 12 with physics, chemistry, biology and English as their basic requirement and they need to be on the merit list of the Manipal entrance test.
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