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Due to recent departures in Nurse Practice Officer (NPO) staff, and to ensure continuity of support for nursing practice, effective June 16. 2023, the following additions have been made to SUN’s NPO assignments on an interim basis. The temporary additions to NPO assignments are listed below; all other assignments remain the same. Erika Vogel Former Five Hills Health Region Former…

(Charlottetown, PEI) – Gathering in person for the first time in four years, more than 1,000 nurses are descending upon Prince Edward Island’s capital June 5-9 for the biennial convention of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU). “After years of working short-staffed and overcapacity on the front lines of a deadly pandemic, nurses are riled up and ready to make a…

SUN has secured an extension to the seniority correction period outlined in Article 23.03 of the SAHO/SUN Collective Agreement due to some delays surrounding the timing of the posting of the lists and ensuring that the seniority lists were accessible to all members on March 1, 2023.   The specifics of the extension are outlined below.   The correction period for SUN seniority has now…

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and introspection lately about how I can be the support SUN members can turn to during these difficult times. What’s become clear is that none of us can weather a storm that feels as if it’s going to swallow us whole, without hope. Finding a way to keep hope alive so that we can imagine a brighter future can be daunting when everything around us…

SUN Provincial offices in Saskatoon and Regina will be closed on Monday, May 22. Business hours will resume on Tuesday, May 23 at 08:00.