mentorship

In March 2020, when the pandemic shut the world down, I had just completed orientation for the first clinical placement of my first year of nursing school. I never got to work at the long-term care home I selected, and I was forced to finish the term from my home computer. Over the next two years, the pandemic would continue to ...

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 so, and the fourth Black nurse to take the helm. She begins her presidency as the province – and the world – starts to emerge from the unprecedented pres...

For RNAO nursing graduate members Hilda Oni and Kelly-Ann Reid, receiving the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Award for Indigenous and Black Nursing Students was the opportunity of a lifetime during their fourth-year of study. As part of the award, they were each given a $5,000 bursary an...

For many nursing students, academic and clinical instructors play a huge role in their journey to becoming an RN and RNAO member. Academic instructors guide students in the classroom, teaching them to be curious and passionate. Elizabeth Edwards helped Mahoganie Hines cultivate her passion for advocacy as she pursued her goal to...

Another visit home has come to an end, and I say goodbye to my family. I look out the airplane window and see Mexico City’s lights slowly getting smaller as we ascend, eventually fading to complete darkness. As I wipe my tears, a thought comes to mind: Will it ever get easier? My mind races as ...