March/April 2018

Celebrating NP legislation with then health minister Elizabeth Witmer (front row, third from right) are (L to R): Carol Sargo, past president, NPAO, Joanne Mousseau, former nursing consultant to the ministry of health on the NP initiative, Barbara Thornber, ED, RPNAO, Charlotte Noesgaard, RNAO president, Margaret Risk, ED, CNO, Sue Williams, director of the school of nursing at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Petra Cooke, president, CNO, Barb Wahl, president, ONA, and Doris Grinspun, ED, RNAO.

20 years later

1998 After decades of hard work and advocacy, Feb. 18, 1998 was a day to celebrate. Bill 127 was proclaimed during an event at RNAO home office, making Ontario the first...

In the End

What nursing means to me

Amy Van Berkum

The sun is setting as I circle a house looking for a back entrance to where I’m told a young man lives. Knocking and calling out loudly, I enter a crawl space that doesn’t allow me to stand up…

RN Profile

The call of the north

Victoria Alarcon

At 21, Brandi Milko was prepared to become a doctor. She had finished her bachelor’s degree in health sciences, was on the waiting list for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), and was…

Feature

Meet your incoming president

Daniel Punch

Why did you become a nurse? I became a nurse because I wanted to help people and make a difference in their lives. My mom was a community health nurse, and she would tell us...

To mark the start of Nursing Week each spring, RNAO members used to head out by the thousands to see the Toronto Blue Jays.

Feature

The look of change (Part 2)

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...

President's View

Celebrating two years at the helm

Conversations with Members

The vital pairing of evidence and politics to promote healthy public policy

Editor's Note

Change is in the air