17 Oct 2022
Nurse bucking the trend, encourages others to head to New Zealand
The shortage of nurses in New Zealand is continuing to strain our health sector. There's still a steady stream of nurses taking off to Australia where they're likely to earn 20 to 30,000 more than they are here. But one nurse is bucking the trend and moving from across the Tasman to Aotearoa. Sophie Carey is a clinical lead nurse who moved from the Northern Terriroty of Australia to the West Coast in 2020, and she's now part of a campaign encouraging others to do the same.