{"id":275531,"date":"2026-02-09T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/275531\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:57:07","slug":"health-care-system-continuing-to-rely-heavily-on-travel-nurses-rnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/275531\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care System Continuing to Rely Heavily on Travel Nurses: RNU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rnu-registered-nurses-union-president-yvette-coffey-november-2025.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Health Care System Continuing to Rely Heavily on Travel Nurses: RNU\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">RNU President Yvette Coffey (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The Registered Nurses Union says improvements have been made in the recruitment of nurses, but approximately 300 nursing positions remain vacant, which is \u201csignificant\u201d for a province the size of Newfoundland and Labrador. <\/p>\n<p>RNU President Yvette Coffey says she\u2019s had positive conversations with both the previous and current governments but says retention remains a serious issue. <\/p>\n<p>She says government needs to be focused on safer buildings, safer workplaces, and no mandatory overtime in order to keep nurses in the system. <\/p>\n<p>Coffey says reliance on travel agency nurses remains high \u2013 especially in central Newfoundland, Labrador and on the west coast.<\/p>\n<p>A new Urgent Care Clinic built and ready to go in Mount Pearl has yet to open to patients due to ongoing staffing challenges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; RNU President Yvette Coffey (Facebook) The Registered Nurses Union says improvements have been made in the recruitment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-275531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}