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	Podcast:		Checkpoint
	Episode:		Student nurses at breaking point with unpaid placements
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:08:03
	Publish Date:		2022-11-10 04:07:00
	Description:		Just weeks out from finishing their degrees, nursing students have told Checkpoint they are already at breaking point. The third-year AUT students, who have asked not to be named, say they have been put under immense stress juggling 40 hour a week unpaid hospital placements alongside full time study with no payment or compensation for things like petrol or hospital parking. It comes as the nation faces a desperate shortage of health professionals and the government embarks on a raft of measures to bring more nurses and doctors into the country. Checkpoint reporter Tom Taylor with the nursing students who say they've been taken advantage of.
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