A new Australian survey of nurses’ attitudes highlights a profession that sees itself as overlooked by management and constantly suffocated by too much red tape.
Two sisters in B.C. are going public to expose what they see as a big hole in the health system after a drug addict was able use their identities to get thousands of taxpayer-funded prescription narcotic pills.
The B.C. Nurses' Union has thrown another punch in a battle over staff organization at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, by filing a Freedom of Information request to its own employer.
Quebec pharmacists were set to start providing expanded services September 3, but since fee negotiations are still underway, that launch date has been postponed indefinitely.