When we last brought you news about nurses providing supervision at drug consumption sites (Sept/Oct 2016), several of those sites were unsanctioned and the fight for buy-in for these services – from the public and government – was very real. Although more than two years have passed, the fight is still very real.
Kimberley Kearsey
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
When the calendar flipped from the 1990s to a new millennium, many people held their breath in preparation for the famous roll-over to digits that some believed would wreak havoc in the computer world (also known as Y2K). RNAO’s communications team shared some of those widespread concerns, and prepared accordingly, but also stay...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
This issue of the journal is the first of three that will invite you to contribute insight (beginning in February) that will influence the evolution of RNAO’s flagship publication.
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
In this issue of the Journal, you will read about three RNs – Natalia Kusendova, Kathryn McGarry and Ross Sutherland – who have made the leap from nursing to politics. Rewind back to the late 1990s and you will find this very same issue covered on the pages of the then RN Journal.
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
A common theme running through this issue of the Journal is resilience.
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
When the Registered Nurse published Volume 1, No. 1 in 1989, its cover feature was a Q&A with then health minister Elinor Caplan about the nursing shortage. When asked specifically about enhancing the role of nurses in health-care decision making, Caplan responded that she wants to "...make sure nurses have a stronger voice,...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
Twenty-two years ago, RNAO – and by extension, Registered Nurse Journal (RNJ) – was experiencing a shift with the arrival of Doris Grinspun as its new executive director in April 1996. “We need to engage many more members in speaking out,” she said in an introductory Q&A published in the June/July issue of the magazine that ...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
For two years, RNAO has been surveying readers of RNJ to get a sense of how people read their professional publication, what they like and dislike about it, and where we can make improvements.
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
Each spring, winter-weary Ontarians watch in anticipation as lawns and parks slowly change from an unappealing brown to a promising green. The birds start to chirp a little louder, and we begin to see buds on trees as they come back to life.
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
While greeting members at our communications booth at the annual general meeting (AGM) in April, I met several people who wanted to share their personal stories.