Cultural Competence

How doctors in northern Manitoba can bill $900k per year
A hospital in a small northern Manitoba community is facing scrutiny after the CBC reported some doctors have been quadruple dipping on roles and collecting large sums of money.
Nursing student’s first patient is her father; she helps save him after massive heart attack
Anna Kraemer, a 20-year-old second semester nursing student at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, thought briefly about reviewing the steps to CPR on her smart phone, but there was no time as she dragged the unconscious body out of the car onto the pavement outside the UK Emergency Department and began CPR.

Different Strokes: A supporting role in the NICU

Sunnybrook’s parent co-ordinator guides families through the difficult early days of caring for premature infants
When nurses become attached to their patients

Although nurses are taught to maintain emotional distance from patients, the "line between a professional and personal relationship with a patient can become blurred," RN Sarah Horstmann wrote on the New York Times' "Well" blog last week.
Laparoscopic surgery: There’s more to it than the money

Surgeons differ over reasons for increased uptake
What your patients are reading - Week of September 23, 2013
SARS doctor Donald Low pleads for legalized assisted suicide in posthumous video

TORONTO | The infectious disease doctor who guided Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis made an appeal prior to his death for Canada to change the law and legalize assisted suicide. Dr. Donald Low made his plea in an emotional video shot eight days before his death last week from a brain tumour.
New VIHA health-care model panned as way to replace nurses with care aides

Critics are slamming the Vancouver Island Health Authority’s new model for care delivery, saying it is really a way to replace registered nurses with less- qualified care aides.
Dulux introduces paint program designed for healthcare spaces

TORONTO | Dulux has launched what it calls a first-of-its-kind program to help hospitals and long-term-care facilities add colour to their spaces.
Unprepared locum MDs pose a danger to patients

How doctors in northern Manitoba can bill $900k per year

Nursing student’s first patient is her father; she helps save him after massive heart attack

Different Strokes: A supporting role in the NICU

When nurses become attached to their patients

Laparoscopic surgery: There’s more to it than the money

What your patients are reading - Week of September 23, 2013

SARS doctor Donald Low pleads for legalized assisted suicide in posthumous video

New VIHA health-care model panned as way to replace nurses with care aides

Dulux introduces paint program designed for healthcare spaces

Unprepared locum MDs pose a danger to patients