Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are independent healthcare professionals who provide primary and specialized care. In our province, they work in clinics, hospitals, community health centres, and nursing homes in both urban...
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Don’t Hang Us Out to Dry It is no secret that the public healthcare system in NL is broken. In response to a worsening situation, the Registered Nurses’ Union Newfoundland...
Beyond Broken. But Not Beyond Repair.
We All Deserve More From Health Care. Talk to anyone these days about health care, and you’ll hear the same thing: “The system is broken.” Hospitals are regularly over capacity...
More than an RN, less than enough
Overtime and understaffing are no way to run a health care system... or a life. Long before we faced a pandemic, Newfoundland and Labrador has been dealing with a serious...
More Full-Time RNs Can Save a Lot
Registered Nurses play a key role in improving health care delivery. Research shows that the right RN staffing can lower costs to deliver health care and improve the quality of…
This campaign works to protect and promote the role of registered nurses. In 2011, we discovered that RNs were struggling with a lost sense of identity in the health care system due to role clutter. RNs felt this was negatively impacting their profession and their ability to connect with patients, clients, residents and their families.