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Fall 2020
Year
2020
Volume
32
No.
3
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Current Issue
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Column
by: Dr. Doris Grinspun
During a Nov. 13 virtual media conference, RNAO called on Premier Doug Ford to immediately impose a 28-day lockdown in all COVID-19 red zones. The government heard our call and announced a lockdown starting Nov. 23.
Column
by: Morgan Hoffarth
A new membership year has begun at RNAO and I thought it would be fitting to share a little bit about my membership journey.
Feature
by: Kimberley Kearsey
Reta, 95, lives in a retirement home across the street from Newmarket’s Southlake Regional Health Centre. Judy Smith, her daughter-in-law, is not her substitute decision-maker, but the person Reta wants all health decisions to go through. Smith has seen first-hand the impact and value of person...
RN Profile
by: Kimberley Kearsey
PHOTO: Jacob Ferguson, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation
Retired advanced practice RN Robin Morash gives up retirement to help during a global pandemic.
In the End
by: Eram Chhogala
Draw up 100 mg of Propofol and 50 mg of Rocuronium. That’s a size 7.5 ETT, secured at 22 cm at the lips with a PEEP of 10 on 100 per cent. We have arterial, peripheral and central lines, all in situ, with vasopressin, epinephrine and levophed all infusing.
Feature
by: Victoria Alarcon
As an NP, Corsita Garraway has faced many obstacles throughout her nursing career in Canada. In 1995, while studying in the RPN-to-RN bridging program at Centennial College, she was one of the few Black nursing students in her program of 40 students. She worked hard to earn high grades and watched other Black students drop out d...
Feature
by: Kimberley Kearsey
Tracie Risling and Richard Booth, PhD-prepared associate professors of nursing in Saskatchewan and London, Ontario, respectively, have both done substantive research on different types of health technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The two RN experts have spent the last year co...
Feature
by: Victoria Alarcon
In the city of Niagara Falls, 24-year-old public health nurse (PHN) Austin White walks through the quiet hallways of an elementary school with a public health inspector, another PHN, the principal and members of the school board. All are physically distanced and wearing masks. Dressed casually ...