New data shows 752 vacant registered nurses’ positions in N.L.
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Nursing vacancies in the province rose 22% in a six-month period, based on new government data. As NTV’s Beth Penney...
Number of Nursing Vacancies in Province Increases to 750
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Some startling new numbers show that the province’s nursing vacancy rate is growing and the Registered Nurses Union wants to...
Filling empty long-term care beds could nearly eliminate the waitlist in Eastern Health
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The number of vacant beds in long-term care in Eastern Health almost exactly matches the number of people on the...
‘It’s heartbreaking’: Countless Newfoundland seniors ‘being warehoused’ in emergency rooms at 230 beds long-term care beds lay empty across the island
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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — For the past seven months, 85-year-old Dick Riche has been in a bed at St. Clare’s...
Nurses’ union hopes new health funding will be used for retention initiatives
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The president of the Registered Nurses’ Union is pushing for specific action on the nursing crisis as part last week’s...
N.L. nurses feeling broken, forced to walk away from jobs they love
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Registered nurses tell us they cannot provide the care patients need and deserve – not even close to it. They...
Nurses’ union says province should fix problems at home before recruiting in Ireland
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The province announced this week its launching a second recruiting trip to Ireland to support the beleaguered health care system.
10 obstetrical patients could be diverted from Happy Valley-Goose Bay due to RN shortage
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The president of the province’s registered nurses union says a shortage of registered nurses in the Labrador-Grenfell Health region has...
COMMENTARY: Privatization not the answer to N.L. health care woes
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The fight for public health care is on. And we all need to raise our voice. A health-care system in...
President Yvette Coffey on CBC Here & Now
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“We’re stronger together to make safer workplaces for everybody in Newfoundland and Labrador. We’re stronger together to combat the violence...
Nurses’ union says staff threatened with disciplinary action if they don’t work mandatory OT
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The union that represents nurses in Newfoundland and Labrador says some of its members have been warned they could be...
President Yvette Coffey on CBC Newfoundland Morning
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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.
