Winter 2021

RNAO held its annual Fall Tour virtually from Nov. 15-19. CEO Dr.

Ontario hospitals in Hamilton, Niagara, Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk counties are providing staff with pay if they need to self-isolate due to potential contact with a COVID-19 patient. This is a move that RNAO actively pushed for.

The Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Hope program began in August 2020 to help provide culturally-appropriate mental health support to all NAN citizens. The number of active clients in the program is 317 (as of March 3), and continues to increase each week.

Keisha Jefferies, a PhD candidate in the school of nursing at Dalhousie University, says racism is embedded in nursing education.

Staff are beginning to feel exhaustion as they continue to fight COVID-19 at Windsor Regional Hospital. Many COVID-19 patients in the ICU are on ventilators. The medical director of the ICU says that despite their best efforts, 40 per cent of these patients who need a ventilator in Windsor-Essex die.

Johanna Leonhardt is the first NP at Quinte Health Care (QHC) to fill the role of 'most-responsible-provider' (MRP), a designation that means she is able to practise to her full scope (read more about RNAO’s NP Task Force report on sco

St. Joseph’s Health System in Hamilton fired its CEO Dr. Tom Stewart after it was made public he had vacationed in the Dominican Republic despite government advisories to stay at home late last year. Stewart apologized for taking the trip.

RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun’s letter about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout appeared in the Toronto Sun (Feb. 12).

Sept. 10, 1995 to Jan. 21, 2021

RNAO has published its newest best practice guideline (BPG) to replace two former BPGs on bladder and bowel management.