{"id":621546,"date":"2026-04-22T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621546\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:04:10","slug":"nurses-union-hoping-to-see-solutions-to-health-care-pressures-in-upcoming-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621546\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses Union Hoping to See Solutions to Health Care Pressures in Upcoming Budget"},"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\/04\/notre-dame-bay-memorial-health-centre-hospital-twillingate-3.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Nurses Union Hoping to See Solutions to Health Care Pressures in Upcoming Budget\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital, Twillingate (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Now that a budget date is set, the Registered Nurses Union is looking for solutions to a health care system that it says is short-staffed and over-stretched. <\/p>\n<p>The RNU says patients are waiting too long for care and nurses are working short, and stretched too thin. <\/p>\n<p>The union says in many communities, services are unstable and uncertain, leaving many patients uncertain as to whether or not they\u2019ll get service when they need it. <\/p>\n<p>President Yvette Coffey says government campaigned on a platform of better healthcare and many people will be watching when the budget comes down next week to see how it will be addressed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital, Twillingate (VOCM News) Now that a budget date is set, the Registered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-621546","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\/621546","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=621546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}