Madison Hietkamp

Shortly after RN Caroline Miller gave birth to her first child nine years ago, she began experiencing intrusive thoughts that made life debilitating at times. She would lie awake at night planning how she’d rescue her child from her car if she suddenly drove off the road. She was scared to do dishes in case she dropped a sharp u...

Nursing Week 2025 took place May 12 to 18 with the theme: Celebrating nursing action and impact. This year, RNAO took a different approach to planning by requesting ideas from members interested in leading keynote presentations and panel discussions. More than 70 members submitted proposals, and 18 were selected.  The lineu...

For as long as RN Stephanie Peltier can remember, she’s wanted to be a strong advocate to help improve her profession. As the voice for nurses for 100 years now, RNAO has provided her with opportunities to do just that, she says.After enjoying a year-long term as policy and political action network (PPAN) officer for RNAO’s Chat...

This year, RNAO celebrates 100 years of action and impact.With a collective voice of more than 54,400 RNs, NPs and nursing students, RNAO is proud to commemorate this milestone anniversary alongside members and partners who benefit from RNAO programs and resources to advance healthy public policy and promote evidence-based healt...

After 25 years of growth and expansion, RNAO’s Best Practice Guideline (BPG) Program has become an impressive social movement of science that stretches across health sectors and geographical borders. Health professionals, their patients and families, researchers and policymakers are working behind the scenes to support the ongoi...

Fourth-year nursing student Cordelia Copeland was working on her presentation for the inaugural Student-Led Academic Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) Conference when Hurricane Beryl hit her home in the coastal community of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. The Category 5 hurricane left her community without electricity in Jul...

As RNAO’s first practising nurse practitioner (NP) president, Lhamo Dolkar recalls what RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun once said to her: “There is always a right president at the right time.” At this juncture, and with the current challenges facing NPs and the broader health system, Dolkar believes it’s the right time for her RNAO ...

Since coming to Canada in 1971 from a small village in western Kenya, 79-year-old RN Beatrice Osome has never wavered from her desire to help children in her own and other African villages have access to clean water. She remembers walking two or three kilometres under the sweltering sun to fetch contaminated water from a river. ...

For the past 11 years, RN Arpita Patel has been providing care to students on campus at Toronto’s Humber College. She’s alleviating barriers so they can stay focused on what matters most: their studies. Under a medical directive, Patel and the other RNs in Humber’s health clinic can provide immunizations for the more than 6,000 ...