• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Is this where the majority of hours are worked? Because the way I understand the scheme, it’s the facilities that have no other choice but to hire agency staff where the growth is. Like hospitals.

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      1 month ago

      Ah, do facilities hire private nurses? Like traveling nurses? I had only heard the term “private nurse” as in one who is privately hired to work in the home.

      Edit: Ah, they do indeed, I have now read the article, apologies. I read private nurses and assumed it meant in home nurses. It seems in Canada the term applies to travel nurses or agency nurses.

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        1 month ago

        “Private” here is being used to mean “private sector”, not “personal”.

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          1 month ago

          Yes I get that now, in Australia the term “private nurse” is used exclusively as far as I know to refer to private in home nurses.

          If I google “private nurses Australia” it is clear this is the case, and a company I have worked through is one of the top results.

          If I google “private nurses Canada” the results all refer to agency nurses like the above article.

          My mistake, I made an assumption without actually reading the article before commenting.