Yellowknifer Shiri McPherson, a third-year nursing student at York University in Toronto, is concerned the nursing shortage across Canada may affect her opportunities for mentorship when she enters the work force. (Submitted by Shiri McPherson - image credit)Two nursing students from the N.W.T. say they have no intention of changing their plans to do frontline nursing in the North, despite their concerns that the national nursing shortage will leave them without adequate mentorship when they graduate. Those are the nurses McPherson and her classmates were counting on when they entered the work force. McPherson and her classmates decided to take on the nursing shortage as a class project in their leadership course.

Source: CBC News March 31, 2022 17:48 UTC