Nursing Clerkship Programs Undercut by Health Cuts

Clerkship programs for nursing students, which allow future nurses to practice certain activities, are being hampered by cuts in the health care system. The FIQ and the OIIQ are asking the Legault government to give a clear directive to quickly restore access to day schools across the province.

The Fédération interprofessionnel de la santé du Québec–FIQ strongly denounces the cuts that affect externat programs for nursing students. These internships, offered to those who have completed part of their training, allow them to carry out certain professional activities in health institutions and to contribute to the support of the network. This decision, applied by several integrated health and social services centres and integrated univers…

MONTREAL — The externate programs for nursing students, which allow future nurses to practice certain activities, are amputated by cuts in the health system. FIQ and IOIIQ ask the Legault government to give a clear directive to quickly restore access to externates throughout the province. The Fédération interprofessionnel de la santé du Québec (FIQ), which has more than 80,000 nurses, auxiliary nurses, inhalotherapists and clinical infusionists,…

The externate programs for nursing students, which allow future nurses to practice certain activities, are amputated by the cuts in the health network. FIQ and IOIIQ ask the Legault government to give a clear directive to quickly restore access to externates across the province. The Fédération interprofessionnel de la santé du Québec (FIQ), which has more than 80,000 nursing members, auxiliary nurses, inhalotherapists and clinical infusionists, …