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Filling the gap: Providing low-barrier care as the first step to addressing poverty

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. ...

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Providing care at home and abroad

by: Alicia Saunders

Abiola Akinremi’s passion for humanitarian work started when she was a teenager. Having lived in Canada since the age of six, she returned to her birth country of Nigeria to attend high school and says the experience made her realize how fortunate she was to have grown up in a country with an abundance of resources available to her.

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SPECIAL ISSUE: Cultivating a healthy tomorrow

by: Kimberley Kearsey

RNAO has been building environmental and social determinants of health into the fabric of its policy and advocacy work for more than two decades (you can read more about this in the latest installment of Conversations with Members, by Dr. Doris Grinspun). In the late 1990s, the association began to think bigger and broader ...

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Trenton NP first to receive most-responsible-provider designation

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Johanna Leonhardt is the first NP at Quinte Health Care (QHC) to fill the role of 'most-responsible-provider' (MRP), a designation that means she is able to practise to her full scope (read more about RNAO’s NP Task Force report on sco

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RN recognized for dedication to organ donation

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Retired Brant Community Healthcare System (BCHS) nurse manager and RNAO member Barbara Longo received a Hospital Donation Champion Award from the Trillium Gift of Life Network. The award is given to health-care professionals who are exceptional advocates for organ and tissue donation.

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A call for more NPs with expanded scope

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...

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New grad RN discovers her calling

by: Victoria Alarcon

PHOTO: Kevin van Paassen, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Clarice Shen finds her passion and confidence while caring for Canada’s first COVID-19 patient.

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From calm to chaos

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.

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Public health nurses go back-to-school

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 ...

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Will it ever get easier?

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 ...

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