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[ONTARIO]  Patients will again pay the price when St. Joseph’s Care Group’s hospital site in Thunder Bay cuts 12 full-time registered nurses (RNs) and 14 part-time RNs in a variety of units. “Our vulnerable, complex St. Joseph’s patients are losing more than 40,000 hours of registered nurse hands-on care a year,” notes Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA)…

To date, the Supreme Court of Canada’s June 6, 2016 deadline for the Federal Government to have legislation in place for Medical Assistance in Dying has not been met.    Presently, patients have the ability to request medically assisted dying from a physician under the Carter decision of the Supreme Court and the applicable policy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of…

Inaccurate, lacking research & evidence, insulting. Regina RN questions Leader Post pieces by Murray Mandryk and Steven Lewis in a letter to the editor: Murray Mandryk’s May 11 column, “Saskatchewan RNs must truly put patients first,” was incredibly offensive and disrespectful to this province’s RNs. I’m an RN at the Regina General and Pasqua hospitals; never…

KIRSTEN WOODEND Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published  Friday, May 13, 2016 6:00AM EDT Last updated    Thursday, May 12, 2016 5:48PM EDT Kirsten Woodend is dean of the Trent/Fleming School of Nursing, and president of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing. ---------------------------------------- In January, 2015,…

We get to be there for the most precious moments in a patient and their family’s life– whether it’s in labour and delivery, or on a medical unit, in hospice care, long-term care, mental and community health facilities or anywhere else in the system registered nurses are there – we’re there for the happiest, scariest and saddest times in our patient’s lives…