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- 10/14/2013
Alberta not ready to force health workers to get flu shot
Statistics show Alberta doctors, nurses and other health staff have been getting the seasonal flu shot at a rate of between 40 and 50 per cent in recent years, stirring debate about whether it should be mandatory. - 10/14/2013
HSCN offers second professional development day in December
TORONTO | Following what it calls a “highly successful” professional development day offered at the HSCN conference in May, the Healthcare Supply Chain Network has announced a second professional development day for the supply chain community, Dec. 4-5. - 10/14/2013
Psychiatry in the News - October 15, 2013
Check out our review of recent psychiatric stories in the media - <strong>Top Story: </strong>New campaign aims to increase mental health resources, reduce youth suicide rates in Canada. Read this and - 10/14/2013
Pharmacists dispense tweets during global twitter campaign
Pharmacists around the world used the hashtag #Pharmacist to document some of the ways they help their patients. - 10/14/2013
Let Ontario nurses prescribe basic drugs: Editorial
Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews should fulfill a promise and give registered nurses the right to prescribe basic drugs, like the first-level antibiotics. - 10/14/2013
Surgery touted as first-line option in urinary incontinence
Not so fast, says Canadian expert, while lamenting physiotherapy funding problems - 10/14/2013
U.S. hospital giant fails in bid to swipe nurses’ sick days
One of the country’s largest and most profitable hospital chains has been defeated in its effort to take away its nurses’ sick days, according to the union that mounted nine strikes there over the past two years. - 10/10/2013
Cognitive behavioural therapy backed in new guidelines
But author laments ‘huge gap’ between recommendations and real-world care - 10/10/2013
Ontario Nurses' Association calls for an immediate moratorium on RN cuts
Front-line nurses' union says that new CIHI study tells an alarming story