to help tackle nursing staff shortage
Cleaners, hospitality workers and caregivers at Auckland City Hospital could soon be healthcare assistants.
It's part of a new "Earn and Learn" programme aimed at upskilling employees to help tackle the desperate shortage of nursing staff.
On Ward 77 at Auckland City Hospital, you'll find Sarina Prasad. For six years she worked there as a cleaner.
"When you do cleaning you aren't allowed to assist patients. Sometimes they want water, coffee or tea which in my cleaning job I wasn't allowed to do and I always wanted to help them," Prasad said.
And now she can because she's upskilled through a new hospital initiative to become a qualified health care assistant.
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