On June 4, RN and sleep expert Julia Worrall launched her own magazine focusing on the connection between poor sleep and poor health. Best Sleep Magazine’s first issue included stories about the way poor sleep harms our health, daytime napping, as well as stress and pain during sleep.
Spring-Summer 2021
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2021
Volume
33
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2
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RNAO CEO Dr. Doris Grinspun has been appointed by the government as a member of a new action group tasked with helping to implement health-care recruiting and training in Ontario. The Staffing Supply Accelerator Group will support the objectives of the Ontario government’s long-term care staffing plan.
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Ottawa Citizen reporter Elizabeth Payne was one of the seven recipients to receive an RNAO Media Award this year. Her winning entry focused on a nursing home administrator, Carolyn Della Foresta, who works at Almonte Country Haven, just outside of Ottawa.
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Sudbury RN and member Maria Casas writes about the importance of Nursing Week in a letter to the Timmins Daily Press (May 10).
Feature
by: Madison Scaini, Victoria Alarcon
It was an Annual General Meeting (AGM) to remember.
A dynamic video highlighting the achievements of nurses and RNAO throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A song performed by a First Nation elder in recognition and remembrance of the residential school children whose tragic deaths have come to ...
Column
by: Morgan Hoffarth
The past 18 months have been a time of great challenge for all health-care workers. There is virtually no sector within the health system that has been untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Column
by: Dr. Doris Grinspun
Ontario is now in the throes of a fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by an aggressive Delta variant with unvaccinated or partially vaccinated persons, often younger, being hospitalized and admitted to ICUs.
RN Profile
by: Victoria Alarcon
RN Aaliyah Hoo Kim-Baker finds purpose in advocating for less privileged communities.
Feature
by: Madison Scaini
Nurses have been called heroes throughout COVID-19, but that doesn’t mean they have superpowers to mitigate the harsh realities of stress and burnout that come with working on the frontlines of a pandemic. The impact of that strain reverberated through the profession earlier this year, when nurses across the province grieved the...
Feature
by: Staff
RNAO stands with the Indigenous peoples of this land who are mourning lives lost. We recognize and share the enormous and enduring pain caused by the residential school system. In our ongoing commitment to reconciliation, the association is building on its partnerships with Indigenous communities to address the impacts of coloni...