{"id":488125,"date":"2026-02-20T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488125\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:45:08","slug":"rnu-proposes-province-wide-system-to-end-reliance-on-costly-agency-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488125\/","title":{"rendered":"RNU Proposes Province-Wide System to End Reliance on Costly Agency Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Confed-RNU.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"RNU Proposes Province-Wide System to End Reliance on Costly Agency Nurses\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Registered Nurses\u2019 Union has given the provincial government a proposal that it says would end reliance on expensive travel agency nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador has spent tens of millions of dollars on import nurses as a stop-gap measure to keep the health care system running, but the RNU says there is a better way.<\/p>\n<p>President Yvette Coffey is calling on government to create a coordinated, province-wide nursing travel system. She says it would use a clear and fair system that would pay more to service harder-to-reach communities. It would also include paid travel time, safe rest periods, and public tracking of vacancies, overtime, and agency spending.<\/p>\n<p>The RNU\u2019s far-reaching proposal encourages greater use of nurse practitioners, and a province-wide review to fix pay differences between nurses doing the same job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Registered Nurses\u2019 Union has given the provincial government a proposal that it says would end reliance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-488125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488125","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=488125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}