The Registered Nurses Union is taking the information it gathered during a recent tour of the province, to government to improve publicly-funded, publicly-delivered health care in rural and remote locations.
Yvette Coffey met with members from Nain to the southwest coast and everywhere in-between.
In recent years the health authorities had resorted more frequently to filling gaps in staffing with private agency nurses.
That, according to the RNU, has resulted in greater costs to taxpayers and has created discord among nurses who are working side-by-side with colleagues making considerably more than those in the public system.
Coffey says she learned a lot speaking with members in their communities.