The Current for Jan. 21, 2022
Today on The Current:
Jessica Sewell was working as an administrative assistant in Burnaby, B.C., when she contracted COVID-19 last May. She tells Matt Galloway how her unpredictable long COVID-19 symptoms make it impossible to know whether she'll be able to work as effectively as she was before getting infected. We also hear from Simon Décary, a professor of rehabilitation at the Université de Sherbrooke, who studies the health and long-term care needs of long COVID-19 patients.
Then, the world is on edge watching Russia's actions at the border with Ukraine. We get an update from CBC's Briar Stewart, who's back from the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. We also hear from Alexandra Chyczij, national president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, about what Canada's extensive Ukrainian diaspora wants from the federal government.
And there is a crisis in nursing as people burned out from the pandemic flee from the profession. It's resulted in some jurisdictions drawing on a previously underutilized resource: internationally-educated nurses. We talk about what needs to change about how internationally-educated nurses are accredited in Canada, with Chandra Kafle, who worked as a nurse in Nepal long before becoming a registered nurse at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital; and Bukola Salami, a nursing researcher and associate professor at the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta.
