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- 11/19/2012
Loved ones voice more concerns about Sunnybrook veterans
Articles about complaints of substandard care at Canada's largest facility for war veterans have prompted several more people to come forward with stories of neglect. - 11/19/2012
Renowned nurse Helen Mussallem remembered
Former Maple Ridge resident and one of Canada’s most renowned nurses died Nov. 9 in Ottawa. - 11/19/2012
Tackling physicians’ top six financial goals
- 11/19/2012
B.C. nurses’ union, health officer continue fight over mandatory flu-shots
Another round of fighting has erupted between British Columbia’s nurses and its health officer after a U.K.-based, non-profit scientific group publicly questioned the evidence used to justify a mandatory flu-shot policy for provincial health-care workers. - 11/19/2012
Hospital infection surveillance program may fall victim to budget cuts
OTTAWA | Canada is in danger of losing its only national monitoring system for healthcare-acquired infections. The Canadian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance Program (CNISP) is anticipating significant budget cuts next year. - 11/19/2012
B.C. doctor fined for not responding to college, providing medical legal report
VANCOUVER | A doctor in British Columbia was handed a fine from his provincial college for failing to reply to communications from his provincial college. - 11/19/2012
Letter: Government needs to address nursing shortage
Rather than take responsibility for chronic nursing understaffing, the B.C government is attempting to coerce nurses to take flu shots. - 11/19/2012
Tide turns as more NPs visit home care patients
Nurse practitioners in New York and New Jersey are filling a gap in healthcare as frontline providers for the homebound elderly and other patients with limited care access.