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For Pay CT Scans Not the Canadian Way

#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…

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SUNSpots Vol. 42 - Issue #1 (Annual Meeting)

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

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A Year In Review: SUN's Operational Highlights 2015 - 2016

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

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SAHO and SUN Reach Tentative Agreement

The Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations Inc. (SAHO) and the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) have signed a memorandum of agreement on a tentative four-year collective bargaining agreement. “I am pleased to report that in a relatively short period of time the parties were able to reach an agreement.  I don’t recall ever having parties move so far so quickly on…

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Letter to the Editor: Registered nurses are really smart. I know; I teach them.

Top high school graduates enter one of the most difficult undergraduate degrees. They must survive and excel in intense courses specific to the science of professionally caring for individuals, families and communities —health-care issues, leadership, communication, biology, statistics, psychology and counselling. This knowledge is developed and evaluated in classroom and real-life…

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