SUNnurses

Representing almost 10,000 Registered Nurses(RN), Nurse Practitioners (NPs) & Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPNs) in Saskatchewan

[Canada's Nurses @CFNU]

Congratulations to Marjorie Michel @MarjoriePLC on becoming Canada’s Health Minister. CFNU members know the challenges and the solutions in our health care system. Let's work together to make nursing the best job in Canada.

[Canada's Nurses @CFNU]

Congratulations to @CFNUPresident, Linda Silas, for being appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom. Silas is being honoured in recognition of her outstanding contributions to nursing with the highest award made by the RCN. Read more: https://t.co/jTBmAFVEEs

[Canada's Nurses @CFNU]

This Indigenous Nurses Day, the CFNU thanks First Nations, Inuit and Métis nurses for your extraordinary leadership and contributions to health care from coast to coast to coast.

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

We are astonished by the downplaying & disrespect to nurses in the NICU. Below is the exact wording of a report submitted to the SHA flagging & confirming concerns around staffing, space & ventilators. There have been 44 work situation reports since the beginning of 2025.#skpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

An email received last night from the NICU who care for #Sask's most vulnerable: "The NICU at Regina General Hospital is facing an unprecedented crisis.... 1:1 patient care assignments are being doubled, and today we used our last available ventilator." #skpoli

[Linda Silas @CFNUPresident]

My friends, with a heavy heart I share the news that my friend and @CFNU past president Kathleen Connors has passed. Kathleen leaves us with a reminder to always use our voices to stand up for patients, nurses & all workers. My statement in her honour: https://t.co/jXKinxM1EA

[Cdn Health Coalition @HealthCoalition]

The amazing Kathleen Connors, RN, former Chair of the ⁦@HealthCoalition⁩ and ⁦@CFNU⁩ has left us. Here she is with Shirley Douglas, actor, activist and daughter of Tommy Douglas, and Maude Barlow, author and former head of the Council of Canadians. #cdnpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

"Code orange is for disasters… not because we've let the system collapse."

$83 million on travel nurses in 2023/24 fiscal year (304 FTE)
Overtime in 2024 over 1 million hrs (556 FTE), up 20% since 2022
Casual hrs up 12% in 2024 & 22% since 2022
https://t.co/IPUDHSVk3y #skpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

Healthcare in Sask is a literal disaster zone. RUH ER has permanent hallway beds, Regina’s UCC often on bypass, all RGH in code orange- In Sask this signifies a mass casualty event or external disaster requiring a rapid& expanded emergency response.Urgent action is needed #skpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

Regina General Hospital in real time. It's getting worse. When did we forget there are people - patients, families - at the end of this chaos? Registered nurses certainly didn't. We again ask gov to act. Work with nurses. Lean on our frontline knowledge. Right this ship. #skpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

SUN has been in to see this hallway. Patients on stretchers with eye masks under BRIGHT lights. Transfusions & invasive procedures happening -ZERO privacy. Food trays, family, congestion. Hotel reception-style call bells. Where’s HIPPA? Where’s leadership &our government? #skpoki

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

A Valentine’s card 💌 registered nurses LOVE to receive❤️

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone on the nursing team in #Saskatchewan! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

“Good morning
The rural facilities are really struggling. This up coming Monday (Feb 17th). Porcupine Plain & Tisdale Hospital will both be on ER bypass.
So if you are from Weekes, SK, you will have to drive past two closed ERs to get to Melfort 138km away for heathcare.” #skppli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

Royal University Hospital registered nurses and patients have been messaging all night since we shared yesterday's patient experience video.

"It's awful and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.🥺” -RN

Something has to be done. #skpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

Please watch this patient experience story. SUN members working at Royal University Hospital’s ER report horror stories like this every day, as do Sask’s other tertiary ERs in Saskatoon & Regina.

Source: CBC Saskatchewan - https://t.co/3etkCUcqpb

#skpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

Please watch this patient experience story. SUN members working at Royal University Hospital’s ER report horror stories like this every day, as do Sask’s other tertiary ERs in Saskatoon & Regina.

Source: CBC Saskatchewan - https://t.co/3etkCUcqpb

#skpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

Sask has the highest no. of student nurses more likely wanting to work casual (24%)
-66% support expanding student loan forgiveness for nurses who work rural/remote vs 52% nationally
-79% say financial stressors are a main source of stress while studying vs 66% nationally #skpoli

[Canada's Nurses @CFNU]

More than a quarter of nursing students say they’ve considered leaving their nursing program due to financial difficulties, according to the first national survey of nursing students.

Read more: https://t.co/kUMnoHKRro #cdnhealth #cdnpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

In Jan, stories of dangerous working conditions & violence, unsafe patient loads, & hallway nursing & overcrowding continued.“Change starts with ensuring that the promises made are the promises kept. The commitment to the formation of a nursing taskforce must be honoured"#skpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

SUN applauds Minister Holland’s decision to ensure patients aren’t paying out-of-pocket for medically necessary care from Nurse Practitioners. This is a step in the right direction to getting Saskatchewan’s healthcare system back on track!

[Canada's Nurses @CFNU]

CFNU applauds Minister of Health Mark Holland’s decision to ensure medically necessary services are included in provincial & territorial health plans, whether they’re provided by a physician or nurse practitioner.

Read more: https://t.co/FPaQCuEuVA #cdnhealth #canlab #cdnpoli

[SUNnurses @SUNnurses]

Small communities are experiencing alarming disruptions in essential health services due to chronic nursing shortages, rolling hospital bypasses and increasing reliance on overstretched urban ERs. https://t.co/ovFzLS9FSb
@TracyZam recently spoke with @leaderpost
#skpoli

[Canada's Nurses @CFNU]

It’s time to get long-term care right. The Safe Long-Term Care Act is coming. Tell your Member of Parliament what should be in it at https://t.co/07FIVLSOwh