Nurses should find out more next week about possible job losses resulting from cuts to Wakari Hospital's specialist rehabilitation service (Isis).
New Zealand Nurses Organisation organiser Lorraine Lobb said a proposal to be put to members at a meeting this Thursday would make possible staffing losses clear.
The Southern District Health Board is working through a staged cut in bed numbers at the rehabilitation service, from 26 to 16.
Ms Lobb said: "the mood up there [at Wakari] is one of anxiety" as restructuring plans had been in train for nearly a year.
"I suppose when they finally get to see what the proposal looks like, that will be a relief for some of them," she said, asked how staff felt.
