January/February 2019

A group of Ontario women, including RN Sue Faber, have shared their experiences with Lyme disease in hopes they will raise awareness that women who have the disease may pass it on to their unborn children.

It was a race against the clock on Jan. 11 for Joanna Schubert, clinical manager for the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus. A double-decker city bus had struck a transit shelter at Westboro station, near the Ottawa River, and seven people with severe injuries were taken to the hospital.

Isabelle Wallace found her voice as a nurse and advocate at the bedside of a patient who had lost his legs to diabetic amputation.

Earlier this year, i was interviewed by Cathy Alex, a CBC reporter from Thunder Bay who was writing about the outcome of the inquest into the tragic death of Brad Chapman. The 43-year-old father of three died from an overdose in the summer of 2015.

Our world is always changing. According to a character in the 1980 novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior, the secret of change is to focus all your energy on building the new, not on fighting the old. 

When we last brought you news  about nurses providing supervision at drug consumption sites (Sept/Oct 2016), several of those sites were unsanctioned and the fight for buy-in for these services – from the public and government – was very real. Although more than two years have passed, the fight is still very real.