What are the parties promising on Training more staff?

This is a page from the 2023 Prince Edward Island general election.

Training more staff platforms

Here's what the 2023 PEI election parties are promising.

Make on-Island tuition free for RCWs, LPNs, and Paramedics who serve in PEI for two years, and provide bursaries for LPNs, RNs, and Paramedics who study off-Island
Create a programme in high schools to help students transition into health-based careers

"Develop a Healthcare Career Pathway Pilot in high schools allowing students to more easily transition from high school to health-based careers." — peipc.ca, 2023-03-20
Work with post-secondary institutions to help retrain RCWs as LPNs and LPNs as RNs, while keeping them at work
Work with communities and post-secondary institutions to offer healthcare training programmes in communities across the province

"Work with communities and our post-secondary institutions to offer training programs for healthcare professionals in communities across the province, as our PC government has done for RCW training" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24
Start an Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Guarantee that students studying in healthcare will get full-time positions the day after they graduate

Increase UPEI training seats for Nurse Practitioners
Create a Physician Assistant training programme at UPEI
Create a bridging programme to train practising LPNs as RNs

"The LPN to RN bridging program will help licensed practical nurses already in the health system upgrade their skills to those of a registered nurse. The program will be designed in consultation with key stakeholders such as healthcare unions, Health PEI, and post-secondary institutions." — peigreens.ca backgrounder, 2023-03-13
Offer employment to all UPEI Nurse Practitioner graduates, and hire more NPs

"Offer employment to all Nurse Practitioner graduates of UPEI. Once the range of care is increased to allow nurse practitioners to work independently, immediately hire additional nurse practitioners to take on patient panels directly from the patient registry." — peigreens.ca, 2023-03-08
Provide regional bursaries for RNs to train to become NPs

"Implement regional bursaries to registered nurses to train to become nurse practitioners at UPEI. Target RNs currently living or working in underserved regions." — peigreens.ca, 2023-03-08
Start a study to figure out if a medical school is the best way to address staffing shortages

Double the number of medical residency seats

"Establish return-in-service agreements for Island students studying at a Canadian University where the PEI government has purchased seats and double the number of medical residency seats, including four new seats for students studying outside of Canada" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22
Double scholarships and financial recruitment incentives

"Double scholarships/financial recruitment incentives to ensure Island students studying medicine in other provinces will find it attractive to return to PEI to practice" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22
Cover tuition costs for any nurse who returns to work in PEI

"Increase student enrollment in expanded PEI nursing programs through a Team Nursing Scholarship program that covers the tuition costs for any nurse who returns to work in PEI’s healthcare system" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22
Increase RN and LPN nursing programme spaces, with a focus on training nurses in rural areas

"Increase nursing spaces in RN and LPN programs to address chronic nursing shortages, including a focus on training nurses in rural areas" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

Expand Holland College's paramedic training programmes
Increase rural practicum and residency placements for medical students and graduates

"Boosting practicum and residency placements for medical students and graduates with experienced rural physicians." — NDP Platform 2023, 2023-03-09
Fully-fund the new medical faculty at UPEI