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DAVIDSON — The loss of a full-time relief nursing position at the Davidson Health Centre last month was a blow, but it was more than that. For the remaining nurses, it was the last straw. “We’re just in crisis out here,” said registered nurse Lyndsay Cross, speaking to Davidson town council at its regular meeting Tuesday night. She and colleague Krista Alexander…

Dr. Glenn Donnelly RN, Associate Dean (Graduate Programs & Research) would like to announce a new Master of Nursing program. The new MN program is designed to prepare clinical nurse specialists. As stream of the advanced practice nursing program the Clinical Nurse Specialist has a high degree of clinical expertise, and play a leading role in developing and implementing clinical guidelines and…

The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) presents case for making pharmacare a part of our complete Canadian public health care system at breakfast meeting in Whitehorse. Thursday July 21, 2016 (Whitehorse, YT) – Today the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) will host Canada’s premiers for a breakfast meeting entitled “Filling the Prescription – the Federal…

Alberta's nurse practitioners say many new graduates are not finding jobs and they want a new funding model to address the situation. Nurse practitioners (NPs) have more training than RNs, allowing them to diagnose, order tests and prescribe drugs. Their services cost the province less than the same procedures billed to Alberta Health by doctors. But the president of the Alberta…

To better understand University of Regina political science professor Tom McIntosh’s severe apprehension about this province allowing private MRIs, perhaps it’s necessary to understand his historical view. Back in 2002, when he was serving as a key researcher for former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow’s Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, McIntosh was…