TORONTO — Ontario’s long-term care minister says the province is placing $100 million towards including 2,000 extra nurses to the sector within the subsequent few years.
Rod Phillips says it is going to help Ontario’s dedication to rising direct take care of long-term care residents to 4 hours a day, on common.
Phillips says he’ll introduce laws Thursday to set long-term care requirements.
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One of many applications being funded by right now’s announcement will present as much as $6,000 a 12 months in tuition for private help employees to develop into registered sensible nurses, and as much as $10,000 a 12 months in tuition to registered sensible nurses to develop into registered nurses.
Members should decide to working in long-term care for a similar time interval as they obtain the schooling helps.
As properly, the federal government is aiming to extend entry to nursing applications at publicly funded faculties.
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