September / October 2018

As many as 578 elementary school students from Windsor and Essex County face possible suspensions this fall. “These are students with incomplete or out-of-date immunization records,” says Stacy Manzerolle, manager of the healthy schools department for the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit.

A new app launched by the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) is helping patients care for themselves after being discharged from hospital. It’s called CoHealth and provides useful information on after-care instructions related to their condition.

Sudbury’s Health Sciences North (HSN) opened a new child-friendly treatment room on the NEO Kids pediatric unit in September.

RN and palliative pain and symptom management consultant Kim Rogers helped to make end-of-life a little easier to talk about thanks to an annual education series called Completing Life’s Journey in the Haldimand Norfolk Community.

In response to the Ontario government’s announcement in October to spend $90-million this year to fund hospital beds ahead of flu season, RNAO President Angela Cooper Brathwaite spoke to CBC News about how the move does little to solve hallway health care. “Beds don’t take care of patients. They need health-care professionals.

RNAO is praising the province’s announcement in October to move ahead with supervised injection services (SIS) and overdose prevention services (OPS), suggesting it is a step in the right direction.

With only blankets for warmth and boxes for shelter, nursing students Stephanie Williams and Derion Ducedre slept on the streets of downtown Chatham in September to raise funds and awareness about homelessness.

In October, i was invited to present at the Canadian EntrepreNurse Summit, an event launched by SE Health (formerly Saint Elizabeth) to recognize nurse trailblazers. It was a day filled with ideas and fueled by determination to propel nurse innovators forward.

Each year at this time, the energy at RNAO home office is at its peak intensity as staff work hard helping you to renew your membership and introducing new members to the numerous benefits the association offers.

Membership in RNAO is something I have valued ever since I joined 30 years ago. 

A common theme running through this issue of the Journal is resilience.