Student nurses joining the front lines of Alberta’s strained health-care system during the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic are eager to help ease the pressure on provincial hospitals.Alberta Health Services has called in 610 student nurses to help provide care at hospitals during the Omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)Student nurses joining…
The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives is warning its registrants against using their professional titles when organizing or taking part in opposition to COVID-19 public health orders.The professional college that oversees nurses in B.C. has warned its registrants against taking part in any sort of activity that may undermine the province’s COVID-19 public health…
Quebec’s largest nurses’ union says more than 30,000 of its members across the province are refusing mandatory overtime this weekend. The union says it formally notified provincial and regional health authorities on Friday.Thousands of nurses across Quebec are refusing to work any mandatory overtime this weekend, as their union ramps up the pressure on provincial…
Military medical personnel are expected to arrive in Alberta Monday to help ease the strain on hospitals caused by COVID-19, the federal government announced Saturday.The military team will have to confirm where and how they will be implemented into Alberta’s health-care system, a news release says. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)Military medical personnel are expected to arrive…
Alberta nurses took part in simultaneous information pickets across the province on Wednesday in an effort to amplify their concerns that understaffing, closed hospital beds and salary rollbacks will impact patient care.
A group of Canadian nurses crosses the U.S.-Canada border each day to treat patients in Michigan. Despite their valiant efforts, there’s been…
The union representing two nurses accused of racist treatment against an Atikamekw woman say they should not have been fired so quickly. But First Nations leaders hope the controversy doesn’t overshadow broader concerns about discrimination in the health-care system.Ghislain Picard, Chief of the Assembly of First Nations for Quebec and Labrador, said he stands by…
Nurses who didn’t wear face masks fuelled a coronavirus outbreak which forced a north-west London hospital to shut its A&E department, an investigation has found. Hillingdon Hospital was forced to close its doors to emergency admissions on July 7 as 70 members of staff went into self-isolation. Ambulances were still being turned away from the…