On March 2, RNAO released its newest report, Nursing Career Pathways, at a media conference held at Queen’s Park. The report examines the nursing profession and provides ways the government should support nursing careers and fix Ontario’s nursing crisis. It also highlights the barriers to retaining and recruiting nurses in Ontario – inadequate and inequitable compensation and unsafe and unhealthy workloads – and identifies opportunities for short-term and longer-term improvements. “There is such huge potential and so much we can do better. Nurses have not felt respected – not in the way we should, given our central role in the system,” said RNAO President Dr. Claudette Holloway. In order to ensure the health and wellbeing of Ontarians, the provincial government must dedicate more attention to nursing, as well as providing more funding and supports. (CityNews, March 2)