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- 12/3/2012
ONA unveils transit shelter ads across Ontario
The Ontario Nurses’ Association’s (ONA) popular ‘Value the Invaluable’ ad campaign is expanding today as new transit shelter ads are unveiled across the province. - 12/3/2012
Nursing a community back to health in Guatemala
University of Victoria nursing school senior instructor Wendy Neander practices what she teaches. - 12/3/2012
N.S. residents hail new health teams
For Dolly Williams and hundreds of others in her community, new health care can’t come soon enough. - 12/3/2012
It’s now Trillium Health Partners
MISSISSAUGA, ONT. | The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre are now known as Trillium Health Partners, the largest community hospital in Ontario, serving Mississauga, West Toronto and the surrounding communities. - 12/3/2012
Huntington Memorial Hospital sponsors first-ever “Nurses Float” for 2013 Rose Parade
Huntington Memorial Hospital has joined together with healthcare organizations from across the country to sponsor the first-ever Rose Parade float recognizing the nursing profession. - 12/3/2012
Gag me: Many nurses squeamish about 'one thing'
In the nursing profession, it’s often just called “the one thing” -- that single human function or unappealing appendage that can instantly disgust and distress seasoned medical professionals who otherwise handle all sorts of discharges, emissions and oozing with barely a wince. - 12/3/2012
From bikes to vibrators: The many ways to hurt the genitals
Men suffer most such injuries, but sex toy incidents more common in women - 12/3/2012
Average surgical wait now 17.7 weeks, from 19.0 in 2011: Fraser Institute
CALGARY | Patients face a median wait of 17.7 weeks for surgical and other therapeutic treatments in Canada, down from 19.0 weeks in 2011, according to the 22nd annual edition of Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, released today by the Fraser Institute, a public policy think-tank. - 12/3/2012
Audio: Nurses soon to write an all-American exam
Nursing professors in Ontario are raising concerns about changes coming to the final registration exam for the nursing profession. Ontario is moving to an all-American exam by 2015. Catherine Tompkins, director of the School Of Nursing at McMaster University, says the new test will be available online, replacing the current written exam from the Canadian Nurses Association. The online exam will make sure students get their results back sooner, she said. - 12/3/2012
Antimicrobial stewardship programs should be mandatory: journal
TORONTO | Antimicrobial stewardship programs such as the one pioneered at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital by Dr. Andrew Morris should be mandatory in all intensive care units (ICUs) according to an editorial published in the November edition of the journal Critical Care. - 12/3/2012
Angry ex-pharmacist laces hospital food with mercury
Martin Kimber, 60, pled guilty to two counts of using chemical weapons, one count of consumer product tampering.