Spring 2022
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When 64-year-old RN Elfreda Murray was 12 years old, she was sleeping on the streets in Spanish Town, Jamaica, scared for her life to go home to her abusive stepfather. Yet, even...
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For RNAO nursing graduate members Hilda Oni and Kelly-Ann Reid, receiving the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Award for Indigenous and...
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Dr. Claudette Holloway became RNAO president at the association’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on June 10, 2022. She is the 57th member to do...
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Nurses work in every sector of care and at all stages of people’s lives. They understand the many factors that contribute to individual and collective health, and they know what...
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Call it good timing or a sign, but either way, it was a simple email to Rob Samulack from a faith-based environmental conservation group that changed everything. With it came the...
In the End
I remember my aunt once telling me: “Nursing isn’t just sitting at the bedside holding someone’s hand.” She said it mockingly, as if I didn’t have what it took to be a nurse. Perhaps there is some…
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Since she was six-years old, Wendy McNeil always knew she wanted to be a nurse to care and advocate for patients and ensure they receive the...
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NP and RNAO member Joanna Binch is tenacious and undeterred by barriers that others may find daunting. For more than a decade, she has laid the...
RN Profile
Abiola Akinremi’s passion for humanitarian work started when she was a teenager. Having lived in Canada since the age of six, she returned to her birth country of Nigeria to attend high school and…
