Make Your Voice Heard This Summer

MLAs are in your communities this summer. This is your chance to speak up.

Safe staffing improves outcomes, reduces burnout, and helps keep experienced registered nurses at the bedside. Without action, Saskatchewan will continue to face growing delays, overcrowding, and pressure across the health-care system.

Nursing shortages also come at a significant cost to taxpayers. Saskatchewan must shift from short-term, crisis-driven spending to sustainable solutions that recruit and retain experienced registered nurses.

You are Saskatchewan’s most trusted patient advocates – at the bedside and beyond.
 

How You Can Engage

Connect with your MLA by:

  • attending community events or town halls

  • visiting your constituency office

  • requesting an in-person or phone meeting

  • sending an email or a letter

 

Follow local events and updates through:
 

How to Make Your Message Count

  • Introduce yourself as a constituent and registered nurse

  • Keep your message clear and focused on patient care

  • Use real examples while protecting patient confidentiality

  •  Explain why safe staffing matters to patients, registered nurses, and communities

  • Focus on practical solutions, including registered nurse-to-patient ratios

  • Ask for a clear response or commitment to action

  • The human costs (both to patients and the nursing workforce) and financial costs are not sustainable

  • Stay respectful, professional, and constructive

  • Offer to follow up with more information if needed

  • If you’re willing, post a photo from your meeting or event on social media and share why safe staffing and registered nurse-to-patient ratios matter to you, your patients, and your community – a powerful way to help bring these issues home and encourage others to speak up. Don’t forget to tag us on Facebook and Instagram.

Remember that YOU are the expert.
 

What Your MLA Needs to Hear

Safe registered nurse-to-patient ratios = patient safety.

Safe staffing is essential to delivering safe, quality care. This truly puts patients first.

Retaining experienced registered nurses matters

Chronic understaffing drives burnout, overtime, vacancies, and nurses leaving. Safe staffing helps keep experienced nurses in Saskatchewan’s communities.

Rural Saskatchewan needs solutions

Rural communities continue to face challenges accessing timely care. Safe staffing solutions must work for all areas of the province.

Registered nurses must be part of the solution

Registered nurses and frontline caregivers must have a meaningful role in developing and implementing staffing solutions.

What to ask your MLA

  • Publicly support action on safe staffing across Saskatchewan

  • Support the implementation of registered nurse-to-patient ratios

  • Work with SUN and frontline registered nurses on prioritizing investment in safe staffing solutions

  • Prioritize patient safety and registered nurse retention ahead of the fall legislative session

Public commitments matter. They show where elected officials stand.
 

What YOU told us

SUN’s March 2026 member survey of more than 1,800 registered nurses shows a clear picture of the impact of short staffing in Saskatchewan:

  • 9 in 10 report short staffing has led to longer wait times, missed or delayed care, service disruptions, and reduced standards of care.

  • 8 in 10 say patients were placed at risk on their unit due to short staffing.

  • 8 in 10 report negative impacts on their mental health and well-being.

  • 6 in 10 have considered leaving the profession in the past year.

The vast majority of you also reported that current efforts to retain and recruit registered nurses are not enough.