'The last thing patients or our registered nurses need is a stalemate between the provinces and federal government over desperately needed healthcare funding,' writes Yvette Coffey and Linda Silas.
'The last thing patients or our registered nurses need is a stalemate between the provinces and federal government over desperately needed healthcare funding'Yvette Coffey is the president of the Registered Nurses' Union of Newfoundland and Labrador. - Contributed photoRegistered nurses tell us they cannot provide the care patients need and deserve – not even close to it. They tell us they are drowning at work and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
Sometimes it feels hopeless, too. Right now, registered nurses across the province are forced to make impossible choices. One RN working in a rural emergency room recently told us “I left my job at the emergency department every shift feeling I could never give enough. I was drained mentally and physically.”Our nurses are constantly struggling to decide which patient gets priority and who gets the next available bed.
Registered nurses want Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to know we are offering solutions and eager to collaborate with all levels of government. What we want is simple: for patients to finally receive the care they need, and for registered nurses and other providers to practice their profession under safe and sustainable working conditions.
These solutions will help bring nurses and early-retirees back to the public sector, reducing the province’s reliance on expensive private travel agencies while still ensuring surge needs are met across the country. We also need to provide adequate support to Internationally Educated Nurses and scale up mentoring programs to support students and new grads to take full-time jobs – and remain in those jobs.
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