One of the things that makes me so proud to be a member of RNAO is the influence and impact we have when it comes to getting time with our elected representatives. Think about it for a moment. What other organization has the political clout that we have raising nursing and health issues?
Social and environmental determinants of health
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by: Marion Zych
RNAO provides federal and provincial governments with budget advice
RNAO provided the federal government with a set of recommendations to consider as it prepared its spring budget. While the country’s economy continues to be affected by after effects due to the pandemic, including high inflation, RNAO argues those mo...
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by: Claudette Holloway
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.
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by: Dr. Doris Grinspun
When I joined RNAO as executive director in April 1996, our association was not engaged in advocacy about the impact environmental and social determinants of health have on people’s lives and health outcomes. Although we had some amazing role models in nursing, RNAO as a whole was sitting on the sidelines.
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by: Morgan Hoffarth
It’s hard to believe that this is my last President’s View column. While we have all experienced the concept of time differently during the pandemic, the past two years have flown by for me.
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
Call it good timing or a sign, but either way, it was a simple email to Rob Samulack from a faith-based environmental conservation group that changed everything. With it came the opportunity to visit Glasgow, Scotland for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (known as COP26). This once-in-a-lifetime chance to join t...
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by: Madison Scaini
Nurses work in every sector of care and at all stages of people’s lives. They understand the many factors that contribute to individual and collective health, and they know what system changes are needed to address the social and environmental determinants that impact health.
But they can’t push for this change alone.&n...
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
Dr. Claudette Holloway became RNAO president at the association’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on June 10, 2022. She is the 57th member to do so, and the fourth Black nurse to take the helm. She begins her presidency as the province – and the world – starts to emerge from the unprecedented pres...
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by: Victoria Alarcon
For RNAO nursing graduate members Hilda Oni and Kelly-Ann Reid, receiving the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Award for Indigenous and Black Nursing Students was the opportunity of a lifetime during their fourth-year of study. As part of the award, they were each given a $5,000 bursary an...
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by: Madison Scaini
When 64-year-old RN Elfreda Murray was 12 years old, she was sleeping on the streets in Spanish Town, Jamaica, scared for her life to go home to her abusive stepfather. Yet, even during that dark time, she would tell herself she wasn’t going to let anyone or anything stand in the way of her goal in life: to become a nurse. ...