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REGINA, March 24, 2016: Members of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) have ratified a March 3, 2016 tentative agreement reached with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO). In province-wide voting yesterday, 91.5 per cent of members who cast ballots voted to accept the new four-year agreement. “SUN members are pleased to have language in their new contract that…

For Immediate Release: March 23rd, 2016. Saskatoon, Sask- Today health care professionals and public health advocates urged Premier Wall to reverse a plan that would violate the Canada Health Act, and called on Minister Philpott to impose penalties if it is implemented. Premier Wall has stated that if re-elected his party will create a second-tier in health care for both MRI and CT scans. This…

#ptsafety  #nursing  #skpoli Today, Saskatchewan’s more than 10,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses, and Registered Nurse (Nurse Practitioners) stand with the Canadian Health Coalition and Canadian Doctors for Medicare to express our grave concerns with the Saskatchewan Party’s campaign promise to expand for-pay diagnostic imaging services to include CT…

SUNSpots is the official newsletter of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses informing SUN members and external stakeholders of issues concerning the nursing profession and the health care system locally, provincially and nationally. View Publication

This past year could quite possibly go down in history as one of the busiest SUN and Saskatchewan’s registered nurses have ever had to face. To describe the past 12 months as “not business as usual” would definitely be an understatement... View Report