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- 2/27/2012
Are nurse practitioners healthcare reform's missing link?
In an op-ed piece, Patricia Dennehy says nurse practitioners are the key to primary care reform stateside: - 2/27/2012
Study projects shortage of almost 5,000 nurses in Alberta by 2021
For Calgary employers, the road to recruitment should lead to Los Angeles, Denver or even Dublin, a Calgary Economic Development study has found. - 2/27/2012
Telemedicine in Eastern Ontario gets cash infusion
The expanded program would allow more patients in the Ottawa Valley to meet by nurse-managed video conference with medical specialists at The Ottawa Hospital. - 2/27/2012
More than numbers count in patient care
There needs to be a better way to calculate workload. What is the mix of ill and well patients? What are their ages? To simply ask for patient numbers indicates an oversimplification of an important process but if your target is only to announce how many more people have access to primary health care, then I suppose it is good PR. - 2/27/2012
Advocacy group pushes for calorie counts, sodium values on menus
Group wants all levels of government to make it mandatory to share dietary details. - 2/27/2012
Long-term care best left to public funding: study
A new fact sheet linking for-profit ownership of care facilities with lower quality care has been released through the Parkland Institute, recharging the ever-illuminated spotlight that shines on the proposed Fort McMurray continuing care facility debate. - 2/27/2012
Bobby Kennedy's son charged over clash with nurses
Robert F. Kennedy's son, Douglas, faces misdemeanor charges over an incident at a New York hospital last month in which he knocked down a nurse while holding his newborn son, attorneys for both sides say. - 2/27/2012
Inquest hears jail nursing lacking
Three nurses and a nurse supervisor work each day, seven days a week at Windsor Jail, but no nurse works between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. - 2/27/2012
RNs deem crowding at BC hospital a crisis
Overcrowding at Royal Jubilee Hospital's emergency room has reached crisis levels, registered nurses say. - 2/27/2012
New Canadian guidelines for migraine prophylaxis
Guidelines based on current published evidence and expert consensus, focus on patients with episodic migraine.