It's a shitshow on multiple fronts. But is she a LPN or RN? LPN jobs are much, much harder to get right now, but RN is still bad.
Most nursing jobs don't even make it to job boards because they're filled internally. A nurse who is already working full-time will apply to the position and get it because of their seniority, leaving their old position behind. You'd think that then their old position would go up, right? No. In most cases the facility just puts the shifts up for casual workers to bid on, of which there are many.
Any job you see up on a job board was not able to be filled internally. Thousands of people apply for these jobs because the government pushed so many people to go into nursing and now there are no jobs for them. Whether you get the job or not depends entirely on how many hours you have in the health region, even if they aren't nursing hours! They don't even interview for these positions, they just offer it to whoever has the most hours. You could have worked in hospital food services for ten years, gone to school, gotten your RN, and then given any job you wanted even if you had no idea what you were doing. Everybody else is left applying for jobs they know they're never going to get because even if somebody is a shitty nurse they'll get the job if they have one more hour of seniority over you.
As a result, the only way to get into the nursing field in Saskatchewan right now is one of three ways:
1) Apply for as many casual positions as you can (these don't require seniority) and slowly build your hours until you're "worthy" enough to get a job that has some semblance of stability. Deal with the mental stress of never knowing if you're going to be able to pay your bills.
2) Work up north.
3) Work in the private sector for a lot less money, no union, worse benefits, and your hours don't count towards the health region so you won't be any further ahead.
Source: My fiance has been out of school for over two years and still can't get a full-time permanent position in the health region.