@SickkidsNews ER RN. College Faculty. @RNAO member. Views are mine. She/her.
Toronto, Ontario
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They're all our children 🍉
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#DidYouKnow: Nearly 3.3 million Ontarians lack a regular primary care provider, limiting timely access to care and increasing pressure on emergency departments and health care costs.
#NPs are eager to provide #PrimaryCare to Ontarians.
🎯EVERYONE: Join our call: RNAO.ca/policy/action-alerts…
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In a recent @globeandmail op-ed, @picardonhealth says that addressing racism in health care requires collecting race-based data.
Such data ensures that communities who are too often marginalized or overlooked are heard—a critical first step in correcting disparities.
Read the full story: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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From long shifts to caring for the most vulnerable, nurses are the backbone of our health system.
On #IWD2026, we honour the women in nursing for their demonstrating their strength, compassion, knowledge and resilience every day.
Are you a nurse? If so, thank you. 💪💙
#InternationalWomensDay
ALT International Women's Day graphics by RNAO commemorating the day. The graphic features the silhouette of a woman's face composed of many smaller images of diverse women.
Proud to serve as an External Reviewer and just in time for #BlackHistoryMonth, @RNAO releases the Best Practice Guidelines for Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Nursing. rnao.ca/bpg/guidelines/addre…
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NYG’s Dr. Kevin Wasko, Chief of Emergency Medicine and Program Medical Director, was interviewed on @globalnews about the rise in influenza cases and the pressure it has had on hospitals this flu season. Check out the full segment here: bit.ly/4sD6hDq
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Dr. Iris Grofinkel knocks it out of the park with pragmatic solutions for improving the wait in Ontario healthcare. The core of the problem is "every dollar Ontario shifts to private medicine is a dollar not spent on public health-care". @DrGorfinkel
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
Stay informed:
For the first time, nearly 2,000 Black women, girls & gender-diverse people share their lived experiences in Voices Unheard, a national call to action for health equity in Canada.
Read the full report 👇
🔗 bwhealthinstitute.com/voices…
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Researchers from @UHN’s @SchroederInst find a potential blood marker to detect ulcerative colitis in patients with axial #spondyloarthritis, offering a less invasive way to diagnose IBD and improve early detection.
🔗 Read more: uhnresearch.ca/news/new-clue…
ALT Hand wearing a medical glove, holding blood test tubes.
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Our Back to School campaign has been extended to Nov 12th! All nursing students can join @RNAO for FREE at join.RNAO.ca 🍂 🏫
Student Memberships also now renew automatically every year until your expected graduation date!
#nursingstudents #BacktoSchool
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No Canadian ER docs say the system is perfect. ER is the underbelly. ER docs understand the brutal reality many face. But "broken" delegitimizes the millions attending ER annually with a reasonable experience and the many with excellent care. @CAEP_Docs
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My College has had to close dozens of programs and lay off so many valued, wonderful, staff.
@fordnation simply refuses to support our post-secondary educational institutions properly. It's absolutely ridiculous how this man is destroying our province. #ForWhichPeople? #onpoli
Minister overruled: Ontario Premier Doug Ford shut down internal recommendations to raise tuition rates for college and university students. Confidential government documents, leaked to Global News, reveal that the Ministry of College and Universities was prepared to raise tuition.
globalnews.ca/news/10318970/…
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NEW: Today, I’m releasing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on the causal link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. Alcohol is the 3rd leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S., contributing to about 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year.
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'Mind boggling' surge in walking pneumonia cases among teens and young adults, by @egpayne via @OttawaCitizen ottawacitizen.com/news/local…
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Health-care workers at @SickKidsNews are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff.
Read our full joint media release: ona.org/news-posts/20241017-…
#onhealth #onlab
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Toronto hospital system offers housing to homeless ER patients. @UHN project designed to improve lives of people experiencing #homelessness while reducing use of the strained public health care system, by @kellygrant1 theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… via @globeandmail @drandrewb
