As Canada’s health ministers gathered in Halifax this week to talk about the progress on health care, the average Canadian could be excused for wanting to shrug and turn away. Enter Canada’s registered nurses.
As drug addiction took a greater and greater hold on their lives, nurses Genevieve Wright and Mona Helmer tapped into a ready supply to feed their habits, stealing narcotics from the Alberta hospitals where they worked.
The Capital Health District Authority is hiring 85 full-time nurses in an attempt to prevent surgeries from being cancelled because of shortage of specialized nurses.
Patients who had access to their physicians’ notes had better medication adherence and felt more in control of their own health, a new study has found.
