United Nurses of Alberta
@UnitedNurses
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Alberta's Nurses are at your side and on your side. United Nurses of Alberta is the union for over 35,000 Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric Nurses.
Alberta, Canada, Treaty 6,7,8
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Alberta nurses openly discuss the challenges they face, especially when dealing with insufficient nurse-patient ratios and staffing shortages.
🎥Watch:
#NeedNursesAB
#AlbertaNurses
#ableg
#abhealth
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United Nurses of Alberta strongly believes appropriate medical treatment for all patients must be determined by qualified health care practitioners based on clinical evidence, not politicians who want to meddle in medical decisions for political and ideological reasons.
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🎶🎄"This is what Alberta nurses want for Christmas..." Registered Nurse and UNA member Whitney Ramsden Jensen gets into the spirit of the season with her version of Code Blue Christmas. 🎄🎶
Watch the full version: 🎤
#NeedNursesAB
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UNA sees nothing in the breakup of AHS and the restructuring of the administration of public health care announced by the government that will address the principal crisis that concerns most nurses – chronic understaffing and overwork caused by the shortage of nurses. 1/
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I ❤️ Alberta Nurses.
Retweet if you agree.
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“We are tired of being told understaffing and bed closures are normal. They are not.”
“Here’s an idea - hire enough nurses!”
Alberta nurses at the Royal Alexandra Hospital are standing up for safe patient care. 📢
#IStandWithABNurses
#ableg
#yeg
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UNA members cannot be disciplined for joining their coworkers on a picket line during their off-work time.
#abhealth
#ableg
@AHS_media
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Laying off Nurses
Is the Wrong thing to do. ❤️✊
#valentine4healthcare
#ableg
@shandro
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The leaders of Alberta’s largest health care unions are calling on Premier Kenney to ask the federal government to immediately deploy the military to assist the province’s overwhelmed hospitals.
#abhealth
#ableg
#covid19ab
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UNA President Heather Smith is urging
@ABDanielleSmith
@JasonCoppingAB
and CMOH Dr. Mark Joffe to immediately address the respiratory infection crisis in Alberta’s hospitals, especially children's hospitals.
Read more:
#abhealth
#ableg
#yeg
#yyc
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United Nurses of Alberta is deeply concerned about the job security of frontline nurses after receiving a letter from Alberta Health Services warning the union about potential “reductions of positions” in 2024.
Read more:
#NeedNursesAB
#ableg
#abhealth
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UNA has learned with regret the passing of one of our members. We send our sincere and deep condolences to their family, friends and colleagues during this difficult time.
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United Nurses of Alberta is concerned by Health Minister Jason Copping’s misleading claim about nurse recruitment.
Read UNA’s full statement:
#ableg
#abhealth
INCREDIBLE NEWS!!! Over 1,400 internationally-trained nurses have registered in Alberta since April 4!
We promised Albertans we would provide more health care professionals to ensure they could access health care m where and when they need it and we delivered!
There is more
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Roughly 30 nurses in Edmonton have refused to swab patients for the coronavirus because Alberta Health Services won't provide them with N95 masks:
#abhealth
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New provincial continuing-care regulations set to come into effect on April 1 will result in there being no legal requirement to provide nursing care for residents living in Alberta continuing care facilities.
Read UNA's statement:
#NeedNursesAB
#ableg
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Kenney & the UCP are planning on cutting thousands of health care workers including at least 750 nurses. This
#NursesWeek
, we’re stepping up our campaign to stop him. We won’t let Kenney put Albertans’ health at risk. Take action:
#abhealth
#ABPoli
#ableg
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📢 Mark your calendars: Alberta's nurses are holding information pickets at hospitals and health centres across Alberta to raise concerns about how understaffing, closed beds and rollbacks will impact patient care in Alberta:
#abhealth
#ableg
#neednurses
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"Nurses have been working 16 hours a day, overworked, for 16 months. Their employer is saying to them, 'Thanks a lot. By the way, we're going to cut your wages.' And now they turn around and bring in people that they will pay $55 to $75 an hour."
#ableg
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This is what
#solidarity
looks like. ✊
UNA supports our frontline
@_AUPE_
co-workers on the picket lines across Alberta.
#ableg
#abhealth
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We urge you in the strongest possible terms to call on the federal government to immediately deploy the military, the Red Cross and all available medical staffing resources from other provinces to assist our province’s overwhelmed hospitals.
#ableg
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United Nurses of Alberta is calling on the Alberta government to consider the need for additional measures to increase the safety of children and teachers during the reopening of Alberta’s schools:
#abed
#ableg
@AdrianaLaGrange
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“We are moving to zero hours of care. This is extremely dangerous. We have already read in the news about a case of a stroke patient sent to recover alone in a motel in Leduc. I fear that the change in regulations means this is only a harbinger of things to come.”
#ableg
New provincial continuing-care regulations set to come into effect on April 1 will result in there being no legal requirement to provide nursing care for residents living in Alberta continuing care facilities.
Read UNA's statement:
#NeedNursesAB
#ableg
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Alberta nurses at UNA’s AGM hearing today from Calgary physician and outspoken public health advocate
@jvipondmd
about his advocacy now and during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
#ableg
#strongtogether
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UNA files unfair labour practice complaint after move by AHS to transfer 3,200 nurses to ‘Recovery Alberta’ without regard for their contract rights.
➡️Read UNA's full statement:
#abnurses
#abhealth
#ableg
#recoveryalberta
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📢🚨TODAY - Info pickets in Brooks, Calgary, Camrose, Drayton Valley, Edmonton, Fairview, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, High Level, High Prairie, Jasper, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, St. Paul, Stony Plain, Strathmore, Ponoka, Wainwright, and Whitecourt.
#ableg
Nurses to hold Day of Action information pickets across Alberta on Wednesday.
#NursesDayOfAction
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Happy Nurses Week! UNA is proud to represent more than 30,000 Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses and allied health workers across Alberta.
#abhealth
#nursesweek
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Public not private.
Need not greed.
Don’t pull the plug on public health care in Alberta!
#ableg
#protectpublichealthcare
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A report commissioned by the province 3 years ago recommended a jump in the hours of care each resident received. The new regulations go in the other direction.
"We are moving to zero hours of care. This is extremely dangerous."
#NeedNursesAB
#ableg
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"Nurses are the backbone of the health care system. We are still recovering from the deep budget cuts of the mid-1990s. It’s outrageous and disappointing that this government appears to want to repeat that mistake.” - UNA President Heather Smith.
#ableg
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“For the sake of Alberta’s children, and all Albertans, it is imperative that our government cease treating this situation as if it were a political inconvenience and address it immediately as the public health crisis that it is." - UNA's Heather Smith.
#abhealth
#ableg
#yeg
UNA President Heather Smith is urging
@ABDanielleSmith
@JasonCoppingAB
and CMOH Dr. Mark Joffe to immediately address the respiratory infection crisis in Alberta’s hospitals, especially children's hospitals.
Read more:
#abhealth
#ableg
#yeg
#yyc
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Alberta Nurses in Grande Cache say YES to safe patient care and NO to understaffing, bed closures and rollbacks.
#IStandWithABNurses
#ableg
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Dear
@ABDanielleSmith
,
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Respect for nurses
Starts with you. 💘
#ValentineForNurses
#NeedNursesAB
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📣Hundreds of Albertans are rallying for public health care at the Alberta Legislature in
#yeg
, as well as locations in Calgary, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer. ✊
#PeopleNotProfit
#neednursesnow
#ableg
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🩺 We stay here for you. ❤️ Please stay home for us. 🏡
Together we have a fighting chance to beat COVID-19.❤️
💊Thank you to the Medicine Unit at the Northern Lights Regional Health Centre in Fort McMurray.💉
#FlattenTheCurve
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Flowers laid outside the Federal Building to remember the lives of all the Albertans who have died from COVID-19 since March 11, 2020.
#ableg
#covid19ab
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ER wait times have ballooned across the province and hospitals are way past capacity in Edmonton.
“We’ve never had that many in the Edmonton zone. We are literally activating the AHS disaster plans, we’re trying to get patients to next available beds."
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United Nurses of Alberta joins workers from across Canada standing in solidarity with Ontario’s education workers. We support
@osbcucscso
&
@CUPEOntario
members in their fight for a fair contract and call on the
@fordnation
government to negotiate, not legislate.
#OnPoli
#OntEd
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Former Foothills CEO Ralph Coombs in the
@calgaryherald
:
"Cutting support to our doctors, nurses and support staff while taking another stab at privatizing services will lead us only deeper into mediocrity in Alberta health care. Albertans deserve and need better!"
#ableg
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United Nurses of Alberta is calling on the Alberta government and the
@CMOH_Alberta
to immediately implement mandatory wearing of face masks in enclosed workplaces and public spaces for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic:
😷
#ableg
#abhealth
#covid19
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According to the AHS website, there are almost 30 hospitals and health care centres in Alberta currently reporting temporary service disruptions, most due to staff shortages.
#NeedNursesAB
#ableg
The Stettler Hospital ER was closed last Saturday due to a "gap in staffing coverage."
The staffing shortage is real and it's hitting every corner of Alberta. Retaining and recruiting new nurses is key to fixing this problem.
#NeedNursesAB
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Media Release: United Nurses of Alberta supports health care workers taking action to defend their jobs and protect public health care:
@_AUPE_
#abhealth
#ableg
#solidarity
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Nurses to hold Day of Action information pickets across Alberta on Wednesday.
#NursesDayOfAction
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The short answer is, we don’t know what’s going to happen. But rather than calling it a “restructuring,” it would be better to call it an evisceration. - UNA President Heather Smith
#NeedNursesAB
#abhealth
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Proposed changes to the system leaves
#Alberta
’s
#healthcare
leaders with more questions than answers.
#abpoli
By
@maddidellplain
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MEDIA RELEASE: Alberta nurses launch campaign resisting UCP plan to cut thousands of nursing and health care jobs:
#abhealth
#ableg
#covid19ab
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➡️ United Nurses of Alberta urges government to continue COVID-19 testing, tracing and isolation:
#abhealth
#ableg
#covid19ab
@CMOH_Alberta
@shandro
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United Nurses of Alberta is asking Minister of Health
@AdrianaLaGrange
to reconsider her recent statement declaring that the Alberta government will not participate in a national pharmacare plan.
Read UNA's full statement:
#ableg
#abhealth
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UPDATE FOR UNA MEMBERS: UNA urges members to wear N95 masks when caring for patients with COVID-19
#abhealth
#ableg
#covid19ab
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"Every AHS nursing employee will be impacted directly or indirectly by this decision to hive off mental health and addiction services into a separate organization, and it appears there was a serious lack of in-depth planning," said UNA's Heather Smith.
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The wrong diagnosis always creates the wrong treatment. The government has diagnosed the problem in Alberta’s health care system as being the structure of AHS. A far more serious problem is the shortage of nurses and other medical professionals, as well as beds and capacity. 3/
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PLEASE READ: A recent video from an event at the Legislature circulating on social media does not reflect the views of United Nurses of Alberta. UNA takes the COVID-19 pandemic very seriously and is deeply troubled by the surge in cases.
#ableg
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After working the front lines through three gruelling waves of the pandemic, and now facing the prospect of pay cuts, some Alberta nurses say they're exhausted, demoralized and looking to get out — prompting concerns about the future of health care in the province.
#ableg
Burned out and demoralized: Some Alberta nurses look to leave amid province's bid to cut pay
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“Nurses are working more overtime than ever before, enduring shifts as long as 24 hours, as they try to meet the needs of their patients amidst a crisis-level staffing shortage. How can anyone be expected to function at their best after more than 20 hours straight on the job?"
Heart disease, drowsy driving and patient safety: new report reveals grim impact of nurse fatigue.
As
@CFNUPresident
Linda Silas points out, with nurses working longer hours than ever before, we must proactively address fatigue.
#cdnhealth
#canlab
#cdnpoli
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"Alberta used to be the highest paid. We're now about number four and they're dissolving the system. I think it's going to make it much more difficult to attract new nurses."
Read more:
#NeedNursesAB
#ableg
#abhealth
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Thank you to St. Albert MLA
@MarieFrRenaud
and NDP leader
@RachelNotley
for joining nurses on the info-picket line outside the Sturgeon Community Hospital today. We appreciate your support!
#ableg
#stalbert
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United Nurses of Alberta has given notice to Alberta Health Services of its intention commence bargaining for a new Provincial Collective Agreement.
Read more:
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AHS informs UNA it will use contract agencies to hire nurses during pandemic fourth wave; employer withdraws Labour Relations Board complaint against union
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Today in History: On the morning of Jan. 25, 1988, more than 14,000 nurses at hospitals across Alberta walked off the job, beginning the largest ever province-wide strike by United Nurses of Alberta members.
#canlab
#ableg
#solidarity
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Thank you to the Canadian Armed Forces nurses who joined Alberta's nurses on the front-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic last month. The pandemic isn't over but we are grateful for your support during COVID's fourth wave in Alberta.
#abhealth
#covid19ab
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It should be obvious that with the Delta variant dominant in Alberta, now is not the time to abandon most tracking and control measures and thereby deprive Albertans of the information they need to decide how best to protect themselves and their families.
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Keeping hospitals and health care facilities clean is front-line work, no matter what Health Minister Tyler Shandro says. Health care operates as a team and laying-off 11,000 health care workers in the middle of a global pandemic is mind-boggling.
#ableg
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Alberta's nurses are already overworked and feeling unappreciated, and if they hear that the government's just going to run roughshod over their collective agreement rights, it's going to make it hard to retain and very difficult to recruit.
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