17 May 2022

Resthome offers reward for nurse recruitment

From Morning Report, 7:55 am on 17 May 2022

A North Island resthome has sent a begging letter to its residents and their families offering a 500 dollar reward to anyone who can find a nurse to work there.

One family says they were shocked to see the offer, but Enliven says traditional methods of recruitment simply aren't working.

Close up hands of senior elderly woman patient suffering from pakinson's desease symptom. Mental health and elderly care concept

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The sector is struggling with a staffing crisis and is short of more than a thousand nurses.

Rosie Gordon reports.