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While it is positive news that Canada’s nursing workforce continued to grow from 2016 to 2017 according the latest data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), it is concerning this past year experienced the slowest growth in 10 years. Given our growing and ageing population’s increasing healthcare needs this slowdown is a notable shift worth monitoring. Of…

“We’ve all watched a loved one or someone we deeply care about suffer the pain of mental illness. We know how helpless it makes us feel. It doesn’t have to be this way. There’s no shame in battling mental illness or need to suffer in silence. Let’s break through stigmas, there is help out there,” Tracy Zambory, RN, SUN President This week is Mental Health…

Representatives from the City of North Battleford joined the Battlefords Canadian Mental Health Association and other supporters to proclaim Mental Health Week at a ceremony outside City Hall Monday.  The city raised the CMHA flag as a youth drumming group from Poundmaker First Nation performed to honour the occasion. Mayor Ryan Bater said it's important to have a week focusing on…

Saskatchewan’s registered nurses (RNs) are utilizing their diverse skill sets to help address some of the unique health care challenges faced by people in rural and remote areas of the province. Nearly one in three Saskatchewan residents live in rural and remote areas and face certain barriers to receiving quality health care. Some communities have access to a physician only a few days a…

The land where Medicare was born is now at a crossroads, according to the head of the union representing Saskatchewan’s 10,000 registered nurses, and nurses can point the way. Saskatchewan is poised to once again lead the world in health care, says Tracy Zambory, president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN). “Right now we are in the most unknown territory that we’ve ever…