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- 12/11/2012
Who is your patient advocate?
I always felt that as a nurse, patient advocacy was one of my central roles. But it is clear that not all nurses or physicians are able to take the time or feel that it is within their role. It is a difficult role, one that is fraught with challenges and being challenged. - 12/11/2012
Behaving badly
Why do people make themselves sick? Behavioural science suggests new ways of reducing healthcare costs (not to mention saving lives) - 12/11/2012
Ontario house calls plan coming into focus with $10M boost
TORONTO | A plan to get more Ontario doctors doing house calls is coming into focus, as the government unveiled a $10 million plan that will focus on homecare for seniors and others. - 12/10/2012
Ontarians losing worrisome number of RNs: RNAO
The provincial government needs to inject an infusion of RNs into the health system if it's serious about meeting the needs of patients, nursing group says. - 12/10/2012
Don’t touch that heart
- 12/10/2012
Securing funding a hard fight for nurse practitioner
As useful as the position is, a nurse practitioner at a residential care facility is extremely rare in B.C. and is effectively an experiment that is running out of time. - 12/10/2012
DNA to stop disease
- 12/10/2012
A natural view of commercialization
What can we learn from piglets, burying beetles and Arabian babblers? - 12/10/2012
A paragon of partnership