{"id":219818,"date":"2025-10-17T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219818\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:09:07","slug":"registered-nurses-union-planning-to-hold-pcs-to-campaign-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219818\/","title":{"rendered":"Registered Nurses\u2019 Union Planning to Hold PCs to Campaign Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Registered Nurses’ Union President Yvette Coffey (Registered Nurses’ Union Newfoundland and Labrador\/Facebook)<\/p>\n

The Registered Nurses\u2019 Union will be holding the newly-elected PC government to the health care promises made during the election campaign. <\/p>\n

RNU President Yvette Coffey says she\u2019s looking forward to sitting down with Tony Wakeham and the new health minister to discuss a number of commitments and promises made while on the hustings.<\/p>\n

One of those promises was the development of an Independent Health Sector Safety Council to address violence and workplace injuries in the health care sector, and to complete the ongoing job classification project. <\/p>\n

She says they also want to see the RNU\u2019s travel locum pilot, currently in place in the Labrador-Grenfell Zone, expanded across the province. Staff-patient ratios is something they want looked at and \u201chours of work. We all know that truckers and pilots all have a maximum number of hours that they can be working and then they have to have a mandatory rest period, and we\u2019re looking for that for nursing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tories also promised to reallocate the funds currently used to hire agency travel nurses. Coffey says they want to see permanent, full-time nursing positions offered to every single nursing graduate in the province.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like Nova Scotia is doing,\u201d says Coffey, \u201cand it\u2019s not necessarily we\u2019re telling you where you have to work \u2013 we\u2019re giving you opportunities to work where you want to work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Registered Nurses’ Union President Yvette Coffey (Registered Nurses’ Union Newfoundland and Labrador\/Facebook) The Registered Nurses\u2019 Union will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-219818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}