Jonathan Sher

RNAO members began their 94th Annual General Meeting (AGM) by listening to the soaring voices and rhythmic drumming of contemporary Indigenous performers at the opening ceremonies on the evening of April 11. “We as a collective of committed members have advanced Ontario’s health system by speaking out for nursing and speaking...

Thirty-nine year old nurse practitioner (NP) Stella Cruz has been alive almost as long as NPs have worked in Ontario. Her path, and that of other NPs, has been propelled by advocacy that this year reached a new milestone when RNAO hosted its first NP Institute* in March. Cruz was one of the more than 100 NPs and health leader...

As a child, Connie Cameron was inspired by the nurses who cared for her, and says they are the reason she's an RN at SickKids today. tl There was only one way eight-year-old ...

Too scared to sleep and jolted to her feet by each unfamiliar sound near the wall of the Hope Grows Haiti mission, RN Marie Nieminen prayed that the medical expedition where she had found her life’s purpose was not going to become the place where she would die. Nieminen was the team leader a...

While power changed hands at Queen’s Park in June of 2018, and a new Conservative government took the reins after 15 years of Liberal government, RNAO’s advocacy remains as passionate and as effective as ever. That was evident at Queen’s Park Day on Feb. 21, when 160 RNs, NPs and nursing stu...

When NP Clara Nisan became director of clinical services at Mackenzie Health long-term care (LTC) home in Richmond Hill in 2015, she made use of an interprofessional team and instituted changes that reduced emergency department transfers by 45 per cent. In the three years since, that trend has continued, with annual reductions a...

RNAO has a reputation for seeking out experts so it can gain the authority to advocate for better health care. When it comes to its work with Indigenous communities that have endured centuries of racism and colonialism, RNAO has learned the path to advocacy begins by acknowledging that pursuit must be grounded in a sense of cult...

On an intensive care unit where nursing staff and doctors try to stop or stall death, an Ontario RN engages in a more private fight, keeping secret an addiction that she knows compromises the quality of her care.    Kathy* worked hard to earn a plum assignment in 2007 at a teaching hospital, and did so hiding her ad...

RN Marilyn Muir shares her family’s story of how opioids led to pain and loss. tl Marilyn Muir never expected to escape Vancouver Island alive. The RN and mother of two, then 31...