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In 2023, the CFNU released the Safe Hours Save Lives report. They emphasized that nurse fatigue and excessive working hours must be addressed with sufficient resources to create healthy, high-quality work environments and a truly functional healthcare system. In 2025, SUN reported 1.2 million hours of overtime,…

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…

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

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…

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,…