First recipients of new nursing bursary announced — with hopes that it will help retain new nurses in the region
Just a few months after it was announced, the MacLachlan family bursary‘s first recipients met on June 11 to celebrate the contribution to local nursing students. The $100,000 fund, administered by the Pontiac Community Hospital Foundation, will go towards four bursaries of up to $5,000 each per year, with the stipulation that the student must work in the Pontiac for as many years as they received the bursary.
Local health authority representative Nicole Boucher-Larivière highlighted the difficult position that they are in when it comes to staffing nursing positions throughout the Pontiac region.
The four accepted this year are Julie Soucie, Sarah Jewell, Marie-Pier Dufour and Kayla Legault, all of whom were in different stages of their schooling.
