ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 7/22/2013
Local nurse, volunteer in running for Walmart Canada’s Mom of the Year
Jackie Connolly, a local nurse and volunteer, has made it to the Top 20 of Walmart Canada’s Mom of the Year, it was announced today. - 7/22/2013
Nurses union files grievance
Fearing patient care will be negatively affected if layoffs continue, the United Nurses of Alberta recently filed a grievance against Alberta Health Services. - 7/22/2013
Epuris: new oral isotretinoin not interchangeable with existing products
The product should only be used when patients are unresponsive to conventional first-line therapies for these types of acne. - 7/22/2013
Detroit Tunnel future critical for Canadian nurses
Debt-laden Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy last week, isn’t planning to sell off assets to pay back its creditors. - 7/22/2013
Nurses, MDs, first hospitals in B.C. colon cancer screening program swamped with referrals
The much-ballyhooed provincial colon cancer screening program has hit some hitches that will delay its start-up. - 7/22/2013
ONA requests immediate government action to stop workplace violence against nurses
The Ontario Nurses' Association is calling for a meeting with the Premier and Ministry of Health to work together with the union to develop strategies to keep nurses safe on the job. - 7/22/2013
Nurses demand national action on health care
The CFNU President Linda Silas and representatives of Canada's provincial nurses unions will be present in Niagara-on-the-Lake during the Council of Federation meetings this week. - 7/22/2013
For vulnerable elders, NP-physician teams deliver better care than doctors alone
A recent study led by Dr. David Reuben, director of geriatrics at UCLA, and published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society shows that patients co-managed by a nurse practioner and a primary care physician together were more likely to receive the recommended care than those seen by a doctor working independently. - 7/22/2013
My little miracle
Last week marked an inauspicious anniversary for me. Seven years ago I was on an extended canoe trip along the Kootenay River with my then-boyfriend (now husband). We were on the riverbank eating lunch in a grove of trees when a windstorm blew up and felled a massive cedar on top of me. My most serious injury was an L1 burst fracture, though later, when I noticed a chunk of hair missing out of the back of my scalp, I realized I was centimeters from a different story entirely. - 7/22/2013
Press Review - July 23, 2013
Check out our review of recent healthcare stories in the media - <strong>Top Story: </strong>Bedbugs reality in Hamilton hospitals. Read this and more.