“Are you the nurse?” I heard a frail woman ask. I had just entered her room on the internal medicine ward. It was dark. “Yes, I am,” I replied, and gave her my first name. She told me her name was Donna.
“I am hungry,” she said. “I have not had anything to eat or drink in a few days, can you help me?”
In April, RNAO honoured its newest cohort of BPSOs in long-term care representing 18 nursing homes, and one organization in Jamaica.
In April, RNAO released Supporting Adults Who Anticipate or Live with an Ostomy, the next edition of the 2009 best practice guideline (BPG), Ostomy Care and Management.
RNAO has named its first Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) Host that will be responsible for bringing francophone organizations into the BPSO movement. Hôpital Montfort, Ontario’s francophone academic hospital, offers health services in both official languages to more than 1.2 million people across eastern Ontario.
Beginning in May, 2019, McMaster University will offer a new, three-course certificate program – one of the first in Canada – focused on the science of cannabis.
In March, the federal government’s Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare released its interim report, which included three recommendations: create a national drug agency; develop an evidence-based list of prescribed drugs; and invest in drug data and information technology systems.