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Vitalité Health Network says it still needs help in an understaffed emergency room in northern N.B., despite the province telling it to return nurses it pulled from primary care back to their roles.
Involuntary redeployment in northern N.B. ‘remains necessary,’ health network says
Katelin Belliveau · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 21, 2026 10:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes ago
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Premier Susan Holt told reporters Tuesday that nurse practitioners should be treated like physicians, who are sometimes given the option to pick up shifts at the ER. (Tara King-Stewart/CBC)
Vitalité Health Network says it still needs the help of nurses who were involuntarily redeployed from primary care practice to the ER in Campbellton.
This was the health authority’s response Tuesday when asked if it would follow a government directive to let the nurses return to their practices.
The authority didn’t make clear whether it had agreed to the directive.
The group representing nurse practitioners recently denounced Vitalité’s decision to redeploy nurse practitioners in the Restigouche area from their primary care practices to the ER at the Campbellton Regional Hospital.
The Nurse Practitioners of New Brunswick said it knew of three to four nurses affected.
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