Hospital-Institutional

A group of registered nurses from the LHSC University Hospital joined the Ontario Nurses’ Association ONA Friday, March 30.

Eliminating the few registered nurses on staff at Huron Lodge would dramatically compromise the quality of care these vulnerable residents receive.

The shortage of operating room nurses at the Pasqua Hospital has taken a turn for the worse and flatlined at the Regina General Hospital.

The province plans to reduce the number of nursing-home spaces this year, despite new figures that show a rising number of Albertans are still stuck in hospital or at home waiting for a bed to become vacant.

If the provinces really want to improve the performance and efficiency of their healthcare systems, they’ll have to address these five ‘unmentionable’ issues

Staff members at CSSS Jardins-Roussillon, hôpital Anna-Laberge say they’re proud to work at what is still, after 24 years, the newest hospital to be built in Quebec. And being the first facility in the province to use a truly wireless patient monitoring system has added to those bragging rights.

Recent installation of call bells for nursing assistance in a hallway at the Royal Inland Hospital is an acknowledgement that hallway medicine is becoming a permanent fixture, a nursing union representative said Monday.

New nursing positions being created for this year's crop of graduating students may spell relief for understaffed nurses frequently called in on their days off.