Spring 2022
Year
2022
Volume
34
No.
2
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
Call it good timing or a sign, but either way, it was a simple email to Rob Samulack from a faith-based environmental conservation group that changed everything. With it came the opportunity to visit Glasgow, Scotland for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (known as COP26). This once-in-a-lifetime chance to join t...
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by: Madison Scaini
Nurses work in every sector of care and at all stages of people’s lives. They understand the many factors that contribute to individual and collective health, and they know what system changes are needed to address the social and environmental determinants that impact health.
But they can’t push for this change alone.&n...
Feature
by: Kimberley Kearsey
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...
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by: Victoria Alarcon
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...
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by: Madison Scaini
When 64-year-old RN Elfreda Murray was 12 years old, she was sleeping on the streets in Spanish Town, Jamaica, scared for her life to go home to her abusive stepfather. Yet, even during that dark time, she would tell herself she wasn’t going to let anyone or anything stand in the way of her goal in life: to become a nurse. ...
RN Profile
by: Alicia Saunders
Abiola Akinremi’s passion for humanitarian work started when she was a teenager. Having lived in Canada since the age of six, she returned to her birth country of Nigeria to attend high school and says the experience made her realize how fortunate she was to have grown up in a country with an abundance of resources available to her.
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by: Christina Hughes, RN, BScN, Kathy Moreland, RN, MScN, Kimberley Kearsey, Louise Lemieux White, RN, BScN, IBCLC, Mathew McGuigan, RN, BScN
NP and RNAO member Joanna Binch is tenacious and undeterred by barriers that others may find daunting. For more than a decade, she has laid the groundwork to not only help, but also respect and honour her clients in an area of Ottawa that has more rooming houses than any other part of the city....
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by: Victoria Alarcon
Since she was six-years old, Wendy McNeil always knew she wanted to be a nurse to care and advocate for patients and ensure they receive the best care possible. However, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, she says working as a nurse has become impossible.
“It just felt like there...
In the End
by: Jesslyn Froese
I remember my aunt once telling me: “Nursing isn’t just sitting at the bedside holding someone’s hand.” She said it mockingly, as if I didn’t have what it took to be a nurse. Perhaps there is some truth to her impressions of me, since I am not drawn to the adrenaline-producing emergency department, or the intensity of the operating room.
Feature
by: Kimberley Kearsey
RNAO has been building environmental and social determinants of health into the fabric of its policy and advocacy work for more than two decades (you can read more about this in the latest installment of Conversations with Members, by Dr. Doris Grinspun). In the late 1990s, the association began to think bigger and broader ...