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A Canadian Hospital Scoops Up Nurses Who No Longer Feel Safe in Trump's America
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/the-week-in-brief-american-nurses-move-to-canada/Brett Kelman
Last year, as the California hospital where she worked was appeasing the Trump administration by erasing words like "equity" and "diversity" from its paperwork, Brandy Frye had seen enough.
Frye, an emergency room nurse with 25 years of experience, felt that ignoring inequality's role in health and sickness was an affront to the compassionate soul of the nursing profession.
"It felt like a step against everything I believe in," Frye said. "And I didn't feel like I belonged there anymore."
Now Frye has found a new place to belong. She is part of a surge of American nurses and other health care workers moving to Canada -- specifically, British Columbia -- to escape the policies of President Donald Trump. Frye settled in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, where the local hospital has hired 20 American nurses in less than a year.
"There are so many like-minded people out there," said Justin Miller, another American nurse who started at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital this month. "You aren't trapped. You don't have to stay. Health care workers are welcomed with open arms around the world."
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Frye, an emergency room nurse with 25 years of experience, felt that ignoring inequality's role in health and sickness was an affront to the compassionate soul of the nursing profession.
"It felt like a step against everything I believe in," Frye said. "And I didn't feel like I belonged there anymore."
Now Frye has found a new place to belong. She is part of a surge of American nurses and other health care workers moving to Canada -- specifically, British Columbia -- to escape the policies of President Donald Trump. Frye settled in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, where the local hospital has hired 20 American nurses in less than a year.
"There are so many like-minded people out there," said Justin Miller, another American nurse who started at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital this month. "You aren't trapped. You don't have to stay. Health care workers are welcomed with open arms around the world."
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are losing our best and bright minds. This will make us sicker and poorer, if this keeps up.
Nurses and other professionals are leaving the US, due to our fascist regime.
Doctor from that same area looking at leaping soon too. Their good fortune is that they are married to a Canadian who is ready to go live there for as long as need be.
Nurses.. I am So Happy for them and their New Homes in BC Vancouver Island! 🍀🤙🍀☮️💟🌈
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