6 Aug 2024

International nurses struggle to find work in NZ

From Checkpoint, 4:44 pm on 6 August 2024

International nurses who answered New Zealand's call to come and work here have found themselves spending tens of thousands of dollars getting registered and applying for hundreds of jobs, but they still can't find work. The country's student nurses, too, are nervous about their prospects with one in four recent graduates unable to land a job, Gill Bonnet reports.

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