This column marks my first official message to you as president. I am extremely proud and feel blessed to represent you. RNAO is an important organization, and my personal pledge to you is to bring my leadership, my energy and my commitment to continue advancing our important work.
Clinical Practice
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A new nurse practitioner-led clinic has opened in Peterborough at the Brock Mission homeless shelter. The clinic is staffed by volunteers and offers primary care to anyone experiencing homelessness. It was founded by NP Lee-Anne Quinn and Dr. Janet Kelly.
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by: Christina Hughes, RN, BScN, Kathy Moreland, RN, MScN, Kimberley Kearsey, Louise Lemieux White, RN, BScN, IBCLC, Mathew McGuigan, RN, BScN
NP and RNAO member Joanna Binch is tenacious and undeterred by barriers that others may find daunting. For more than a decade, she has laid the groundwork to not only help, but also respect and honour her clients in an area of Ottawa that has more rooming houses than any other part of the city....
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by: Morgan Hoffarth
I’m currently sitting on my couch, writing this column with my son Greyson next to me, and a children’s movie on the TV in the background. I want to share a bit about my life, as a mom, a nurse and a director of care.
Column
by: Mara Haase
Are you considering retirement and wondering what, if any, legal coverage you may need? The answer to this question depends on a number of factors, including whether you plan to maintain a registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO), and in what registration class.
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by: Dr. Doris Grinspun, Dr. Shanoja Naik, Kimberley Kearsey
Publisher’s note: More than 1,000 health service and academic organizations on five continents are actively engaged in the Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO)* program. They have formal partnerships with RNAO to implement and measure the impact of multiple best practice guidelines (BPG) on patient outcomes, as well as or...
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by: Madison Scaini
Nurses have been called heroes throughout COVID-19, but that doesn’t mean they have superpowers to mitigate the harsh realities of stress and burnout that come with working on the frontlines of a pandemic. The impact of that strain reverberated through the profession earlier this year, when nurses across the province grieved the...
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Staff are beginning to feel exhaustion as they continue to fight COVID-19 at Windsor Regional Hospital. Many COVID-19 patients in the ICU are on ventilators. The medical director of the ICU says that despite their best efforts, 40 per cent of these patients who need a ventilator in Windsor-Essex die.
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by: Madison Scaini
It’s no secret that nurses across Ontario are facing tremendous physical and emotional burnout due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And because of their commitment to caring for others, they have less time to devote to their own health and wellbeing.
As RNAO continues its unrelenting call on the federal and provincial governme...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
David* is an NP at a walk-in clinic in his area. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, he met Jane, a young mother of two who called the clinic to talk with him about a concerning discharge and palpable lumps in her breasts. A few months prior, she had seen her primary care provider (PCP) with the same concerns and was ordered a mammo...