Thunder Bay District Health Unit and the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), representing public health nurses, have reached a tentative collective agreement. “We are pleased to confirm that Thunder Bay District Health Unit has reached a tentative agreement with our public health nurses,” says [Read more]
In Northern Ontario we know all too well the challenges we face with access to healthcare. Many have to travel long distances for care, and at a time when there seems to be continuous cuts to services, and wasted millions it becomes extremely frustrating. This week my colleague and NDP Health [Read more]
Today Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, and Dr. David Mowat, Interim Chief Medical Officer of Health, issued the following statement on Ontario’s preparedness for Ebola virus disease in Ontario: “We know that Ontarians may have concerns related to the ongoing [Read more]
Partnership between key health educators will pool resources, improve student learning opportunities, and ultimately lead to better patient care THUNDER BAY, ON – A major new partnership between key health care educators in the region aims to pool resources and increase training capacity – [Read more]
Government To Move Forward With New Legislation This Fall From: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care The Ontario government is taking action to make the province’s cancer system safer for patients, following the release of Dr. Jake Thiessen’s review into Ontario’s cancer drug [Read more]
Nursing Week – A Short History In 1971, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) designated May 12 – Florence Nightingale’s birthday – as International Nurses Day. In 1985, in recognition of the dedication and achievements of the nursing profession, the Canadian minister of health [Read more]
The North West LHIN is investing $2,034,860 to hire nurses to deliver health care through telemedicine, improving access to high quality health care for people in the region. Organizations from across the region will be able to hire 28 new “telemedicine” nurses. These are health care [Read more]
May 11, 2010 9:15 AM McGuinty Government Celebrates National Nursing Week Nurses play a key role in delivering health care and are now using more of their skills to take on diverse roles within the system, benefiting all Ontarians. Since 2003 the government has created more than 10,000 nursing [Read more]
After a very long day, yet another trip to the hospital for pain meds (these had been quite discouraging on this day as their had been an incident where a nurse refused to give me my meds wanting me to wait & speak to the doctor and not thinking I would, (of course patients do [Read more]
It would seem that I am a prime candidate for use as a scapegoat to answer the problem of doctors in Manitouwadge and why our community might have trouble getting them here. I received a letter this week that basically re-iterated a conversation (mostly one sided as I was not sure what the person [Read more]
I finally took up the offer of yet another very kind lady who had given me her phone number during the bad months at the beginning of the year when I was going to the hospital in way too many taxis. I felt a little odd calling someone I don’t know for a ride but [Read more]
"my IV Shunt had been put in without any gloves port-a-cath (which I have under my left side, kind of below my collar bone) being worn and I was a little concerned with the possibility of yet another skin infection (I dealt with many of these before finally having my 'picc line' and then about a [Read more]
"Well, treatment night #2... There is a new nurse at the hospital who gave me my injection this afternoon. Really interesting french lady who usually works at Muscle White. She was the one who signed me in tonight and even though she's really nice I was feeling just a little sad having thought that [Read more]
