A group of Francophone nurses from New Brunswick is calling on the province’s language commissioner to make changes to the entry-to-nursing exam.
A poorly translated version of an American exam is currently being used and the study guide is only available in English.
Lise Guerrette Daigle, a nurse and former VP for the Vitalite Health Network is part of that group.
“We decided to group together as nurses and people who are retired who have the profession at heart and we really want a solution to help out Francophone students,” says Guerrette Daigle.
She adds that the issue is even discouraging some are even choosing to go into nursing, which contributes to the shortage of nurses in the province.
“What we’re hearing in the community is that some students in grade 12 decide not to come into nursing because they’ve heard about the exam, the difficulties that students have had and the cost associated with writing the exam one time, two times, three times,” says Guerrette Daigle.
She says the previous exam was Canadian and had a much better success rate.
This is the commissioner has been asked to review the issue.
