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Forced to sit out during pandemic, nurse calls for changes to Ontario's registration process

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When her Canadian wife was offered an exciting new job in Thunder Bay in the summer of 2019, Christy Tashjian and her family made the big decision to move from Texas to northwestern Ontario.

Trained and working as a nurse practitioner in the United States, Tashjian told CBC News that she didn’t think it would be a big deal to transfer her licence and get her registration to work in Ontario.

So they moved to Thunder Bay at the beginning of 2020.

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But more than 20 months later, through the global pandemic and warnings about nursing shortages and burnt-out health-care workers, Tashjian hasn’t been

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/christy-tashjian-waiting-to-work-1.6189165?cmp=rss.

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