In September, RNAO BPSO Meadow Park, a long-term care (LTC) home in Chatham, won the Quality Improvement Team of the Year award from the Ontario Long-Term Care Association (OLTCA). The award was presented at OLTCA’s annual convention, which took place in conjunction with the Biennial Global Ageing Conference in Toronto.
Fall 2019
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2019
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31
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4
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RN Andrea Baumann writes a letter to the Waterloo Region Record (July 26) about keeping a new supervised consumption site open in Cambridge.
Feature
by: Victoria Alarcon
For many nursing students, academic and clinical instructors play a huge role in their journey to becoming an RN and RNAO member. Academic instructors guide students in the classroom, teaching them to be curious and passionate. Elizabeth Edwards helped Mahoganie Hines cultivate her passion for advocacy as she pursued her goal to...
Feature
by: Kimberley Kearsey
Two world-recognized nursing events – Sigma International Nursing Research Congress (INRC) in Calgary and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress in Singapore – exposed nursing and health-care leaders from around the world to RNAO’s influential best practice guidelines (BPG) as well as its powerful Best Practice Spotl...
Feature
by: Kimberley Kearsey
RNAO members were actively involved in many different activities in the run-up to October’s federal election. Whether co-hosting community debates or panel discussions, participating as a voice for nursing in those discussions, or knocking on doors as candidates, members raised their concerns and set expectations for elected off...
Feature
by: Wendy Glauser
The opioid crisis continues in full force, with recent data showing young people to be most at risk of opioid deaths. But places where youth live, study and party – college and university campuses – have been slow to respond, due to stigma and liability concerns. Now, nurses and other harm reduction a...
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by: Maricel Perez Vigueras
Another visit home has come to an end, and I say goodbye to my family. I look out the airplane window and see Mexico City’s lights slowly getting smaller as we ascend, eventually fading to complete darkness. As I wipe my tears, a thought comes to mind: Will it ever get easier? My mind races as ...