Yukon bucks national trend with increased nursing jobs

Yukon is bucking anational trend. While nursing jobs are in decline across Canada, more nurses than ever are finding workin the territory.

"It's something for us to watch," saysAndrea Porter-Chapman, who is with the Canadian Institute forHealth Information."Nurses make up the largest workforce in our healthcare system. That by itself means that this is a pulse of our healthcare system."

The recentstatistics are no surprise to Yukon healthcareworkers.

"We are an area that people like to move to. And, in healthcare, we are spoiled in that we tend to have a steady supply of nurses," saysSeanSecord,president of the Yukon Registered Nursing Association.

Despite the steady supply, he says nurses are always in demandas nurses move and change jobs, creating highturnover in the profession.