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Professional Practice Alert: Beyond the Checkbox - How WSRs Fit Your Practice

SUN members can use the provincial Work Situation Report (WSR) to document concerns regarding professional practice, workload, and/or staffing. This universal form is available to members in any practice setting or facility with Nursing Practice, Nursing Advisory Committee, and Independent Assessment Committee articles in…

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Professional Practice Alert: Nursing Advocacy In Action

Nursing Advocacy In Action: Stepping Up & Stepping In Advocacy, collaboration, problem-solving and ensuring safe practice for all are fundamental requirements for registered…

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Professional Practice Alert: Long-Term Care Essentials

Long-term care is overwhelmed with professional practice concerns, staffing deficits, and excessive workloads that prevent registered nurses from providing the appropriate resident care as directed by legislation, regulations, regulatory bodies, professional, and organizational requirements. Residents deserve the…

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Addressing Workload & Insufficient Staffing

Workload and registered nurse staffing represent the most significant professional practice concerns, and prevent registered nurses from providing safe, competent, ethical, appropriate, and high-quality patient care. Workload and staffing concerns are rooted in the inability to provide patient care aligned with legislative, regulatory, professional,…

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Safety and Professional Practice: What Members Need to Know

Persistent concerns about safety, security, and violence within workplaces and professional practice continue to be reported by SUN Members. Sound and reliable collective agreement articles and processes exist to address them with Labour Relations and Professional Practice. The following information and recommendations support SUN Members and…

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