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  • New data shows 752 vacant registered nurses’ positions in N.L.

    Posted on 25 February 202327 February 2023

    Nursing vacancies in the province rose 22% in a six-month period, based on new government data. As NTV’s Beth Penney...

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  • Number of Nursing Vacancies in Province Increases to 750

    Posted on 23 February 202327 February 2023

    Some startling new numbers show that the province’s nursing vacancy rate is growing and the Registered Nurses Union wants to...

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  • Filling empty long-term care beds could nearly eliminate the waitlist in Eastern Health

    Posted on 20 February 202321 February 2023

    The number of vacant beds in long-term care in Eastern Health almost exactly matches the number of people on the...

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  • ‘It’s heartbreaking’: Countless Newfoundland seniors ‘being warehoused’ in emergency rooms at 230 beds long-term care beds lay empty across the island

    Posted on 16 February 202316 February 2023

    ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — For the past seven months, 85-year-old Dick Riche has been in a bed at St. Clare’s...

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  • Nurses’ union hopes new health funding will be used for retention initiatives

    Posted on 13 February 202316 February 2023

    The president of the Registered Nurses’ Union is pushing for specific action on the nursing crisis as part last week’s...

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  • N.L. nurses feeling broken, forced to walk away from jobs they love

    Posted on 7 February 20237 February 2023

    Registered nurses tell us they cannot provide the care patients need and deserve – not even close to it. They...

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  • Nurses’ union says province should fix problems at home before recruiting in Ireland

    Posted on 12 January 202326 January 2023

    The province announced this week its launching a second recruiting trip to Ireland to support the beleaguered health care system.

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  • 10 obstetrical patients could be diverted from Happy Valley-Goose Bay due to RN shortage

    Posted on 19 December 20227 February 2023

    The president of the province’s registered nurses union says a shortage of registered nurses in the Labrador-Grenfell Health region has...

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  • COMMENTARY: Privatization not the answer to N.L. health care woes

    Posted on 16 December 202219 December 2022

    The fight for public health care is on. And we all need to raise our voice. A health-care system in...

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  • President Yvette Coffey on CBC Here & Now

    Posted on 23 November 202225 November 2022

    “We’re stronger together to make safer workplaces for everybody in Newfoundland and Labrador. We’re stronger together to combat the violence...

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  • Nurses’ union says staff threatened with disciplinary action if they don’t work mandatory OT

    Posted on 18 November 20229 February 2023

    The union that represents nurses in Newfoundland and Labrador says some of its members have been warned they could be...

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  • President Yvette Coffey on CBC Newfoundland Morning

    Posted on 17 November 202217 November 2022

    This is Nurse Practitioners Week in Canada. With a shortage of nurses and the resulting emergency room closures and diversions in this province, these professionals are vital to our healthcare system.

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