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Violence an increasing cause of injuries to health-care workers in Saskatchewan

“To have safe patient care, we need a safe workforce.” Sandra Cripps, CEO, Saskatchewan Association of Safe Workplaces in Healthcare (SASWH). We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. SUN is proud member of SASWH and the Provincial Violence Prevention Framework/Strategy Steering Committee, led by SASWH, who are tasked with developing and implementing tools and strategies to…

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Nova Scotia health-care unions seek strike vote

Thousands of Nova Scotia health-care workers, including lab technologists, in-hospital paramedics and child psychologists, could be walking off the job soon. The health-care bargaining unit, which is made up of members of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, CUPE, Unifor and the Nova Scotia Nurses Union, sent a message to its members Wednesday with…

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Nurses in crisis over overtime: union (Manitoba)

Mandatory overtime has reached a crisis level for nurses at St. Boniface Hospital and workers in the program that cares for women and babies are bearing the brunt of it, the Manitoba Nurses Union says. There have been as many incidents of mandatory overtime at the Winnipeg facility reported so far this year — 328 — as there were in all of 2017, said union president Sandi Mowat.…

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Medical students raise concerns about mental health crisis with MLAs

The province’s future physicians made rounds at the Legislative Building on Tuesday to raise concerns about Saskatchewan’s mental health crisis.  “The word crisis is not something to be thrown around, but I think it’s appropriate in this case,” said Alison White, chair of the Government Affairs and Advocacy Committee with the Student Medical Society of…

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A Year In Review: SUN's Operational Highlights 2017 - 2018 & Annual Meeting SUNSpots

Leverage the strength and innovation of registered nurses and SUN to positively shape transformational change for the betterment of safe patient care. A powerful statement summing up who we are as a profession and as a Union... View Report

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