Rural Saskatchewan ERs Depend on Travel Nurses; Some Say Their Pay Stopped

Emergency rooms in rural Saskatchewan often depend on travel nurses to stay open, CBC reports. A group of those nurses now says it has gone months without pay — and the private agency that deployed them has gone silent, according to the report. That is the agency arrangement's weak point stated plainly: the people holding small-town ER shifts together are the ones exposed when the go-between stops answering. The dependence is what makes it matter, since the staffing model exists because those emergency rooms cannot easily run without it.