Interprofessional

They draped a ribbon over Jim Ennis’s neck Monday night in Worcester, but it wasn’t the kind of honor typically bestowed on ex-athletes.

A retired Owen Sound nurse has compiled a 72-year history of nursing education at Owen Sound General & Marine Hospital School of Nursing and at its brief successor, the Owen Sound Regional School of Nursing.

Document a combined effort of radiation oncologists and urologists

Pharmacists around the world used the hashtag #Pharmacist to document some of the ways they help their patients.

Nurses are frequently placed in situations where they lack the time, and in some cases the resources to care for patients in the way they would like to.

There’s an “epidemic” of disjointed communication through the health care system, according to a Thompson Rivers University nursing instructor.

Asking patients to track their nausea and vomiting after a course of chemotherapy helped the health care team to adjust medications and achieve better control of symptoms, according to the results of a small single center study.

But author laments ‘huge gap’ between recommendations and real-world care

As new numbers show that an increasing number of specialists are having difficulty finding work, Alberta is bringing in a two-year pilot project for physician assistants at hospitals and facilities.

Startling new employment numbers suggest the employment picture for specialists is getting worse, with slow job growth blamed on, interprofessional health-care models, poor workforce planning and delayed retirement among older doctors.