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Quebec launches two accelerated health training programs

Published on 12/01/2021 11:23 AM

The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé (right) and his colleague from Education, Jean-François Roberge (left), announced on Wednesday the creation of scholarships and the implementation of accelerated training programs. (Photo: The Canadian Press)

Quebec is launching an intensive recruitment effort for nursing assistants and administrative officers in clinical services in the hope of repeating the successes obtained in recruiting patient attendants.

The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé and his colleague from Education, Jean-François Roberge, announced on Wednesday the creation of scholarships and the implementation of accelerated training programs whose objective is to attract 3,000 administrative staff and 2,000 nursing assistants.

The scholarships are important: people who register for administrative agent training will receive a scholarship of $ 4000 while candidates for nursing assistant training will receive a scholarship of $ 20,000. In the first case, the registered students will have to commit to working for at least one year while it will be two years of engagement for the second. The total amount of the scholarships represents an investment of $ 14 million for administrative officers and $ 48 million for nursing assistants.

The administrative officers in support of the clinical sectors will have the mission of assuming the administrative tasks of nurses, tasks which occupy too large a portion of their time, according to Minister Dubé. They can then be freed up to allow more time for patient care. Administrative agent training, which usually represents 400 hours, will be reduced to 240 hours, or about two months, so that Quebec plans to gradually integrate them into the health network by next summer.

For nursing assistants, accelerated training will begin next January. The requirement of 1,800 hours of training is unchanged, but rather than being obtained in 22 months, the vocational studies diploma will be completed in 14 months and Quebec expects to have this cohort in place in the network in March. 2023.

These accelerated training programs and the related scholarships will be offered in all regions of Quebec.


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