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Take Your MPP To Work Members of provincial parliament (MPP) have been getting a firsthand look at how RNs and NPs are making a difference in the lives of Ontarians. The visits are part of RNAO’s Take Your MPP To Work initiative, which began during Nursing Week in May 2000. With nurses as their guides, MPPs participat...

RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun (above) was at Queen’s Park on Nov. 15 to provide feedback on Bill 135, the government’s proposed changes to the Home Care Act. She was joined by RNAO senior policy analyst Christina Pullano. In its submission, RNAO praised the government for dissolving Local Health Integration Networks and a proposed...

RNAO provides federal and provincial governments with budget advice RNAO provided the federal government with a set of recommendations to consider as it prepared its spring budget. While the country’s economy continues to be affected by after effects due to the pandemic, including high inflation, RNAO argues those mo...

Queen’s Park on the Road: Time to get involved RNAO members have been meeting with their local elected representatives as part of Queen’s Park on the Road (QPOR). Considered one of the association’s key member-driven political action events, QPOR gives RNs, NPs and nursing students the opportunity to discuss key nursing an...

On Sept. 20, Canadians voted for a minority liberal government in the federal election. Two RNAO members – Aisha Jahangir and Bert Laranjo – were among the candidates vying for a seat in the House of Commons. Jahangir ran for the NDP and took third in her Guelph riding. Laranjo, a Conservative candidate, came in second in his ri...

RNAO members connect virtually with their MPPs for QPOR

Modernizing the home and community care legislative regime In June, RNAO provided feedback on the government’s efforts to reform the home and community care sector. Bill 175: Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act, 2020 repeals the 1994 legislative framework and integrates home and community care with the res...

The nursing profession lost one of its own this spring when 57-year-old Brian Beattie died from COVID-19. He had been an RN for 23 years and is believed to be the first nurse in Canada to die from the virus. At the time of his death, Beattie was working at Kensington Village, a long-term car...

RNAO did not let a global pandemic stop us from moving ahead on the popular and decades-old tradition of celebrating our profession during Nursing Week, May 11-17. We marked the occasion with numerous virtual events. These included: hosting our 20th annual Take Your MPP To Work visits, releasing our groundbreaking Enhancing Comm...

It was an annual general meeting (AGM) like no other. There was a visitor from nursing’s past, a beautiful tribute in the form of a song and a dynamic keynote presentation to inspire nurses about the power of their voices. These were just a few key moments of RNAO’s 95th AGM, which t...