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Northern Med is a preferred Canadian travel nurse agency, proudly based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We specialize in recruiting quality healthcare professionals and connecting them to Canadian communities, from coast to coast.  In addition to rewarding assignments, exceptional wages, and paid travel + accommodations, NMC fosters a strong sense of community and ensures each member of the team is supported at every stage of their travel nurse journey.

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"With my first travel nursing contract in Gander, Newfoundland complete - I can honesty say that I have made so many friendships and connections here that will last a lifetime! 🤍 I had the opportunity to work in a new place and to explore a lot on my days off, independently and with friends. I also got to visit a piece of France with my amazing grandparents. Both staff and travel nurses alike have been so good to me and welcomed me to this amazing province. You are all incredible people, and have made this experience the best in the world - I can’t wait to come back! A huge thank you to Northern Medical Connections for being so amazing and supportive through this entire process - you truly made this the BEST experience! I would recommend travel nursing to anyone and would highly recommend working with Northern Med! On to my next adventure! ✌️✈️”

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“I'm very happy I decided to take a contract with Northern Med! The staff that I have interacted with have all been so kind and they really do care and make an effort to check in with you. Whenever issues came up, they were quick to address the situation. I loved Nova Scotia so much that I actually extended my contract! I made lots of friends and was able to explore a part of Canada that I probably wouldn't have if it wasn't for travel nursing.”

"I remember always being told my full-time line was the end goal as a new nurse, yet I still felt there had to be more out there for me."

“One year ago, I took a leap of faith. I remember always being told my full-time line was the end goal as a new nurse, yet I still felt there had to be more out there for me. I quit my line, gave away my belongings, signed my first contract and haven’t looked back since. Life has always been good to me, but this season of full-time travel nursing has been unparalleled. Big thanks to NMC for being such a supportive agency and for proving that a fulfilling career and a beautiful adventurous life should exist simultaneously. We don’t need a vacation from a life like this.”

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No-poaching clause means travel nurses can't accept jobs in N.L.

Union president says some agency nurses have been contractually prohibited from accepting permanent jobs.

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The Registered Nurses' Union of Newfoundland and Labrador is appalled that the provincial government included a clause in private-agency nursing contracts preventing some nurses from staying and working in the province's public health-care system. 

President Yvette Coffey said she became aware of the issue when a nurse who was employed by a private agency inquired about taking a permanent, full-time position in the public system.

"He was not allowed to take a position in Newfoundland and Labrador for upwards of 12 months after he finished his contract with the private agency," Coffey said.

After some investigation, the union discovered that were are four or five agency contracts that all have limitations between 6-12 months denying a nurse the ability to take a job in Newfoundland and Labrador's public health-care system.

One private agency's contract requires a nurse to be disconnected from a private agency for more than a year before they can work in Newfoundland and Labrador. If breached, the province pays a hefty fine. 

"If one of those nurses comes and takes a job in their public health-care system, we — as a government — have to pay between $5,000 or a or full year's salary [to the private company]," Coffey said.

Coffey said there is no logical rationale for restrictions that she said "handcuffs" the province from hiring nurses and nurse practitioners.  

"It's appalling," she said. 

When COVID-19 was raging, Coffey said she was involved in conversations with the province to bring more travel nurses here. 

"I was told at that meeting that there was a clause in the contract that would prevent the agency from poaching our nurses out of the public sector, and also from poaching our graduates, our new nursing graduates, for up to a year. Nobody told me that it was also reciprocal with the company, and that we could not hire their agency nurses into our publicly funded health-care system."

Coffey noted that the province is working to recruit nurses from India, Ireland, the Philippines, but has restricted itself from hiring the people who are already here and ready to work.  

Protecting the work force

Debbie Molloy, vice-president of N.L. Health Services, said when the contracts with private nursing agencies were signed peak-pandemic, the health authority's hands were tied. 

"We do have contracts with a number of different agencies and they have what's called a non solicitation clause," she said. 

"It actually protects us because agencies cannot hire either nurses who work with us within the province, or we actually extended that to also be students who are graduating."

Molloy said the clause is meant to ensure that N.L. Health Services maintains a healthy workforce, and that public sector workers are not recruited by private agencies. 

Health Minister Tom Osborne said the contracts were drawn up and agreed upon between the health authority and private agencies, and that the health authority did the right thing by including the non-solicitation clause. 

"If there wasn't some level of protection, we could potentially lose far more nurses to other provinces than we would gain," he said. 

"If there wasn't a protection built into the contract to ensure that agencies did not recruit our nurses to work as agency nurses in their same position, in the same hospital, for the same community — they would drain our workforce."

Osborne said the number of nurses bound by the clause is low. 

"We will be doing what we can to try and work with the agency to have them released, but that remains to be seen," he said. 

According to Molloy, as of March 18 there are 357 private agency nurses working in Newfoundland and Labrador, down from 373 in February, and less than 20 of them are working in the metro St. John's area. 

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Newfoundland’s Auditor-General probing province’s expensive travel nursing contracts

Emergency Department at Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre, in Moncton, N.B. in February, 2023. Daniel St Louis/Handout

Newfoundland and Labrador Auditor-General Denise Hanrahan said Friday that she will investigate contracts between private vendors and the province’s health sector, citing The Globe and Mail’s reporting on expensive travel nursing deals .

In an e-mail, Ms. Hanrahan’s office said she would conduct a performance audit of “health sector contracts.” The scope of the review was intentionally defined broadly to give auditors wide latitude, Ms. Hanrahan said in an interview.

Performance audits, also known as value-for-money audits, assess how programs are managed and focus on their costs, efficiency and effectiveness.

In explaining her decision to launch the audit, Ms. Hanrahan said she is aware of The Globe’s reporting, and of concerns raised by Newfoundland politicians and interest groups about these contracts. “It certainly seemed like a topic that would be a complement to us, going forward,” she said.

The announcement arrives in the midst of an uproar in Newfoundland about the cost of travel nurses, who are hired from out of province by private, for-profit agencies. Those agencies then provide the nurses to the public health system at marked-up prices. The travel nursing industry has thrived across the country since the start of the pandemic, as health officials have relied on private providers to supplement short-staffed hospitals and nursing homes.

The Globe reported last month that one private agency, Toronto-based Canadian Health Labs, had inked contracts with health authorities in Newfoundland and New Brunswick, and charged rates that in many cases worked out to more than $300 an hour per nurse. That is roughly six times as much as nurses earn in the public health care system.

Newfoundland, eager to shed dependency on expensive travel nurses, launches program for rural communities

CHL also charged health authorities for meals for its nurses, but The Globe’s investigation found no evidence that the money had been distributed to the company’s workers. The Globe obtained copies of CHL’s employment contracts, which specified that the nurses were responsible for paying for their own food. More than two dozen nurses said they had never received meal allowances from the company.

Based on invoices obtained through freedom of information requests, The Globe initially calculated that CHL had billed Newfoundland for $1.6-million in meal allowances. Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, the province’s health authority, confirmed to The Globe earlier this week that it had paid $2.12-million in these allowances as of December.

Ms. Hanrahan said it could be 12 to 18 months before a report on the audit is released. CHL’s current contract in the province, worth a maximum of $44.25-million, ends on April 30.

These nursing deals are already under scrutiny in Atlantic Canada. Late last month, Newfoundland Health Minister Tom Osborne asked the province’s Comptroller-General, who has oversight of the province’s finances, to review CHL’s contracts. The province’s Official Opposition has sent a letter to the RCMP, asking them to look into the contracts.

Earlier this month, New Brunswick Auditor-General Paul Martin announced a separate audit of travel-nursing arrangements in his province, where CHL has a contract worth as much as $93-million to supply nurses until 2026. It also has a $45-million deal to provide personal support workers there until May 31.

Yvette Coffey, president of the Registered Nurses’ Union of Newfoundland and Labrador, said her group had written several times to urge the Auditor-General to examine travel nursing. “There must be a full, open and transparent accounting for the money that the taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador spent on these private agencies,” Ms. Coffey said.

Newfoundland seeks answers after ‘shocking’ spending on temporary nurses

In a statement, Mr. Osborne, the Health Minister, said he is pleased that there will be an audit. He added that he had been in contact with Ms. Hanrahan about health care contracts.

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services said in a statement that it “values the work of the Auditor-General and will work collaboratively with the Office as the review is conducted.”

CHL has not responded to past requests from The Globe for it to explain why its nurses claim they didn’t receive money for meals, despite the payments from health authorities. In response to past questions about that and other aspects of its business, the company issued a four-paragraph statement stating that its rates are “fair and transparent” and that its prices “reflect the extraordinary logistical challenges of getting and keeping health care professionals in rural, remote and underserved communities.”

The Globe contacted CHL’s lawyer, William McDowell, for comment about Ms. Hanrahan’s decision. The company offered no response.

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