January/February 2019

Year
2019
Volume
31
No.
1
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January February 2019 cover of Registered Nurse Journal
Current Issue
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January February 2019 cover of Registered Nurse Journal
Feature
by: Kimberley Kearsey
Public health units, primary care clinics, home health organizations, hospitals and long-term care homes that have already achieved or are working towards Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) designation have been successfully implementing RNAO’s best practice guidelines (BPG) for years, many for well over a decade. Last ...
Hospital room show inside a person's mind
In the End
by: Margaret Grylls

Everything I know about being a nurse I have learned from my family. My mother is a primary care nurse in an outpatient oncology clinic.

News
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RNAO was among a number of stakeholders invited to attend two days of roundtable sessions Jan. 23 and 24 with Justice Eileen Gillese, the commissioner appointed to oversee the Long-Term Care (LTC) Homes Public Inquiry.

News
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A committee of MPPs is getting advice on what should be included in the next provincial budget. RNAO CEO Doris Grinspun and the association’s senior economist Kim Jarvi presented RNAO’s policy priorities during a Jan. 29 meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs.

Column
by: Mara Haase

Do you subscribe to RNAOs Legal Assistance Program (LAP)? It covers you in circumstances that fall outside the scope of professional liability protection (PLP), which is an automatic benefit of RNAO membership.

Feature
by: Victoria Alarcon
As a palliative care nurse in Grimsby, Andy Clutton always strives to ensure language is never a barrier to good health. So when newcomer Ghulam Akbar Momand and his family arrived in Canada from Afghanistan in 2012, and moved into the same apartment building, Clutton didn’t shy away from welcoming the family with open arms. “I...
Feature
by: Jonathan Sher
RNAO has a reputation for seeking out experts so it can gain the authority to advocate for better health care. When it comes to its work with Indigenous communities that have endured centuries of racism and colonialism, RNAO has learned the path to advocacy begins by acknowledging that pursuit must be grounded in a sense of cult...
Feature
by: Jonathan Sher
On an intensive care unit where nursing staff and doctors try to stop or stall death, an Ontario RN engages in a more private fight, keeping secret an addiction that she knows compromises the quality of her care.    Kathy* worked hard to earn a plum assignment in 2007 at a teaching hospital, and did so hiding her ad...
Feature
by: Jonathan Sher
RN Marilyn Muir shares her family’s story of how opioids led to pain and loss. tl Marilyn Muir never expected to escape Vancouver Island alive. The RN and mother of two, then 31...
News
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A new network of advocates focused on people who are homeless in Toronto has come together to create the Shelter and Housing Justice Network (SHJN). Two RNAO members sit on the group’s steering committee: street nurses Cathy Crowe and Roxie Danielson.