Nurse recruitment is good for B.C., but retention key

Nurse recruitment is good for B.C., but retention key

With 100 new nurses hired from the U.S., B.C. is still short 6,000 nurses. And even though recruitment is an important part of the equation, retention is even more. Jack Morse reports from Vancouver.

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