Healthcare Management

New information about the latest cuts of Registered Nurses (RNs) at The Scarborough Hospital, coming less than a week after National Nursing Week celebrations concluded, is further evidence that the Ontario government is cutting health care.

Nurses work hard. And virtually all of that hard work, from administering medication to hanging IVs to moving patients and equipment, is done standing up on hard surfaces.

Enter a hospital, doctor's office, adult care facility or medical clinic and you are bound to encounter nurses.

Like police officers, firefighters, doctors, paramedics and pilots, nurses are at risk for developing shift work sleep disorder (SWSD), a syndrome characterized by prolonged insomnia and excessive sleepiness due to the interruption of the body's natural sleep-wake cycles.

Some concerns are being raised after a nurse did so much overtime last year her salary topped $300 000.

LAVAL, QUE. | Logi-D, a provider of hospital supply chain automation solutions and inventor of the RFID 2BIN-iD replenishment practice, is now marketing its suite of solutions to healthcare institutions in France.

Just in case you don't have enough to worry about as a healthcare administrator, now you also have to be concerned about the effects of climate change. But you won’t have to start from scratch: there’s a toolkit to help you.

BAIE ST. PAUL, QUE. | Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has confirmed construction of a new $376-million hospital in this picturesque town in her riding, an hour’s drive northeast of Quebec City.