Healthcare

I am sure all of you can remember our first experiences with trying to treat pain in patients. Many years ago, as a new RN, I remember more experienced colleagues telling me that if an order was written “q 3-4 h”, it was better to wait the four hours than the three. Then, of course, came the realization that for some patients this “rule” was inhumane. I suspect that many providers, both then and now, could benefit from additional educational supports to help them in caring for patients who present with pain.

Guidelines are for the diagnosis and management of asthma in preschoolers, children, and adults.

Health Care Connect, which can be accessed online or by phone, has helped connect northern Ontarians in record numbers to primary-care providers.

After the announcement of a renewed partnership between his ministry, the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN), and Regional Health Authorities, minister of Health Don McMorris was the final keynote speaker at the SUN meeting in Moose Jaw on Friday morning.

This editorial may sound a bit self-serving at first since I’m a nurse, but it’s certainly not meant to be.

Almost 9,000 registered nurses, nurse practitioners and registered psychiatric nurses are expected to vote on the contract in the coming weeks.

Nurses remain important in operating theatres, even as robots replace humans to perform delicate surgical procedures.

Australia faces a shortage of 109,000 nurses—27 per cent of the total nursing workforce—and of 2700 doctors by 2025 unless co-ordinated national action is taken by federal, state and territory governments, health ministers have been warned.