Rosanra (Rosie) Yoon’s earliest childhood memories harken back to her days accompanying her mother on the streetcar for monthly visits to Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. From the age of four to eight, she was scared and nervous on these outings, but as soon as she saw her mother’s nurse, she felt safe.
Mental health
RN Profile
by: Victoria Alarcon
Feature
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: Victoria Alarcon
Since she was six-years old, Wendy McNeil always knew she wanted to be a nurse to care and advocate for patients and ensure they receive the best care possible. However, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, she says working as a nurse has become impossible.
“It just felt like there...
Column
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.
Feature
by: Kimberley Kearsey
With promising news early in 2021 that Ontario universities saw a 17.5 per cent increase in applicants to nursing programs, it is easy to envision a future generation of RNs and NPs eager to provide expertise on the frontlines. These motivated individuals are absolutely needed, but they won’t get through the rigours of nurs...
Feature
by: Alicia Saunders
Sept. 30, 2021 marked Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a federal statutory holiday. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada published 94 calls to action in 2015, and among them (#80) was the call to establish a day to honour residential school survivors, their families and communities. Also kno...
Feature
by: Madison Scaini
When leZlie lee kam went to visit Alf Roberts at his long-term care (LTC) home a couple of days after his 91st birthday, lee kam was devastated to learn Roberts had died the day before and no one from the home shared the news.
“There was this wall between anyone who cared for Alf and (the LTC home where he lived),” lee kam re...
Column
by: Dr. Doris Grinspun
Ontario is now in the throes of a fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by an aggressive Delta variant with unvaccinated or partially vaccinated persons, often younger, being hospitalized and admitted to ICUs.
RN Profile
by: Victoria Alarcon
RN Aaliyah Hoo Kim-Baker finds purpose in advocating for less privileged communities.
Feature
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...