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Contact: January-June 2024 - Board of Directors Decisions

Jan 30- 31 - Board of Directors Meeting The SUN Board of Directors approved the Local Bylaws for Local 95, Lucky Lake Health Centre Local 27 Birch Hills Health Centre Local 12 St. Mary’s Villa Local 151 Parkridge Centre Local 305 Central Plains Community Health Centre Local 258 Community Mental Health Services Saskatoon Loca 124 Providence Plance Local 266 Yorkton Mental…

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Transition to new local structure and the role of SUN Network Leads

As we reported following the June 5 & 6 Special Meeting, Locals will now be created within a subnetwork, base hospital or certified bargaining unit. Existing Locals will remain in place until the transition to the new local structure occurs, with all new Locals' work being completed by February 28, 2025. Given the importance of this work, over the next few months, Board members will…

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Professional Practice Alert: Graduate & New Registered Nurses

Recent graduate nurses and new registered nurses entering the work environment will require your support to be safe, competent, ethical and effective in their new roles. They are working to consolidate their professional practice as registered nurses and become familiar with their new practice setting. SUN members need to know how to best support…

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Overtime & Fatigue: What Members Need to Know and Do

UPDATED: June 26, 2024 On November 23, 2023, SUN reported that nurses had clocked over 1 million hours of overtime to keep the healthcare system on life support, and drew attention to Saskatchewan’s growing $70 million dependence on travel nurses on March 14, 2024.  In December 2023, the Safe Hours Save Lives report was released by the CFNU, driving home the message that nurse…

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AIMS launches today

Members may recall AIMS, the SHA’s Administrative Information Management System, designed to integrate and centralize up to 80 different health systems’ human resources needs. AIMS streamlines the functions of payroll, staff scheduling, finance, and supply management all into one program. After shelving the program in 2022, the SHA has confirmed this morning that AIMS will relaunch…

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