Front-line registered nurses and nursing leaders from across Ontario will meet in Kingston this week to discuss RN cuts and threats to patient care during the Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) Provincial Coordinators Meeting.
I wrote in Sunday’s Globe about nine trauma nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who played a very private but critical role in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing: They cared for gravely wounded suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a heavily-guarded ICU, nursing him back to health.
Ontario is poised to become the first province in Canada to make automatic sprinklers mandatory in all retirement and nursing homes and residences for the disabled.
GOJO Industries, manufacturer of hygiene products, has signed a contract with HealthPRO, a group purchasing organization with 260 members representing more than 800 hospitals across Canada.