A recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll found that bus drivers and nurses were more likely to be obese when compared to other professions. The sample consisted of 138,438 people ages 18 and over. It found that 36.4 percent of transport workers were obese.
Throughout Europe, the nursing profession is rapidly losing its appeal. An aging workforce and dwindling student enrollment in nursing schools are precipitating a looming nursing crisis.
New information about the latest cuts of Registered Nurses (RNs) at The Scarborough Hospital, coming less than a week after National Nursing Week celebrations concluded, is further evidence that the Ontario government is cutting health care.
Community pharmacy is part of the cure for an ailing healthcare system, Dr. Marla Shapiro told supporters of the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy (CFP) at its annual Innovation Gala in late April.
