10 Feb 2022

Covid-19: NZ-trained nurses consider leaving over visa trouble

From Morning Report, 7:53 am on 10 February 2022

A group of New Zealand-trained nurses - some working with Covid-19 patients - are considering leaving the country because they can't get a visa to live here.

That's despite a nursing shortage so big it's at crisis levels.

The Government is offering one-off residency visas to registered nurses from overseas but it doesn't apply to some who are already here - newly trained and good to go.

Rowan Quinn reports.