Nurses at the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie recently said “Goodbye” to their last patient in the old ED and “Hello” to the first patient in their brand new department.
Suturing wounds, ordering lab tests and x-rays, diagnosing ailments, prescribing medications and providing timely, primary health care is all in a day’s work for four NPs in Chatham-Kent.
Angela Cross, a Personal Support Worker at the Victorian Order of Nurses Canada (VON), will never forget the foreign woman in the “bad wig” she had to train earlier this year in front of a camera crew.