Several Parkland area nurses joined hundreds of their counterparts from across the province for a rally last week at the Manitoba Legislature.

Mandee Nakonechny is the President of the Parkland Community Nurses Local 122, and says their message to the Kinew government that day was simple.

"Our current slogan is "Same Shift, different day".  And no pun intended as an X marks through the F in the shift."

Nakonechny adds that front-line nurses have seen very little change in how health care is moving from the previous government to the current one.

"(The government is very proud that they have hired 600+ health care workers and made some positive moves in that sense.  But the front-line workers are not seeing that, and the nurses are not holding back on speaking about how that is affecting us on everyday job levels.  And that is through the entire province."

"We would really like to know the number of staff that have left besides the 600+ that they have claimed to have hired."

She goes over some of the issues that nurses continue to face.

"Staffing shortages are one of the biggest ones.  We are coming into our summer season of vacations, and we are already having nurses working overtime and over and above their exceeded amounts."

"Violence is another issue.  (Apparently) It is okay for medical staff to be assaulted and spit on and have objects thrown at them on a daily basis at numerous health care facilities across the province.  But if that were to happen at a different job site, that would not be tolerated."

Nakonechny says there is solidarity among nurses across the province, as well as other health care teams, and that they want Manitobans to know that things are not okay in the health system.