Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews should fulfill a promise and give registered nurses the right to prescribe basic drugs, like the first-level antibiotics.
Statistics show Alberta doctors, nurses and other health staff have been getting the seasonal flu shot at a rate of between 40 and 50 per cent in recent years, stirring debate about whether it should be mandatory.
A national portrait by the Canadian Institute for Health Information made public on Tuesday says the actual number of working nurses has grown by seven per cent in the last five years, outpacing growth in the Canadian labour force and population.
Patients, nurses and employees of Rouge Valley Health System and The Scarborough Hospital are launching a campaign on Tuesday, Oct. 15, against “hospital service cuts” in Scarborough and Ajax.
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A retired Owen Sound nurse has compiled a 72-year history of nursing education at Owen Sound General & Marine Hospital School of Nursing and at its brief successor, the Owen Sound Regional School of Nursing.
