An update is coming this morning on the provincial government’s nursing recruitment efforts.

Health Minister John Hogan and VP Human Resources with NL Health Services, Debbie Molloy will speak with reporters this morning.

Last week the Registered Nurses Union issued a release indicating that conversations with nursing grads revealed that of the 121 fourth-year nursing students at MUN’s Centre for Nursing Studies, only three were given job offers.

One said that a manager with the health authority in central Newfoundland indicated that “he prefers hiring private agency nurses because they are easier to make happy.”

Hogan and Molloy will speak with reporters this morning at 11:00. VOCM News will be there.