We go to great lengths to protect our children, doing our best to keep them safe from harm. Unfortunately, more than nine per cent of children admitted to acute care hospitals in Canada experience harm caused by healthcare system failures which ...

Angelina Jolie’s recent editorial in the New York Times resulted in a whirlwind of discussion.  Her announcement to decide to undergo a double mastectomy was based on genetic testing that revealed she carried a “faulty” BRCA1 gene that significantly increases ...

RNAO CEO Doris Grinspun (right) applauds Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s announcement that she plans to expand the scope of practice for nurses in the province. In April, about 650 RNs and nursing students attended the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario ...

Recent studies have shown that one in five Canadians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, and that mental health is the number one cause of disability in Canada, accounting for nearly 30% of disability claims. The reality suggested by ...

David Musyj is President and CEO of Windsor Regional Hospital. People ask me – what is the most difficult part of your day to day job as a Hospital CEO?  For me, responding to a sentinel event where, a patient ...

Families across Canada are more and more facing a dilemma: how to ensure aging parents and other loved ones have the kind of personal care support they need now or will soon. And that’s precisely why we see an increasing number ...

Gone are the days when healthcare practitioners needed to recall the legal age of consent for treatment –18, 12, 9, 15?  In most Canadian provinces, we now look for a person’s ‘capacity’ to make a particular decision – rather than ...

For the last 14 years, registered nurses (RN) have visited Queen’s Park to meet one-on-one with MPPs and cabinet ministers. Dubbed Queen’s Park Day (QP Day), this tradition, hosted by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO), allows RNs, nurse ...

A Power of Attorney for Personal Care (“POA”) is a legal document in which an individual can specify who has authority to make care decisions on his or her behalf in the event that person becomes mentally incapable of doing ...

Dr. Robert Howard is President and CEO of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. Before I talk about our renewal project at St. Michael’s Hospital, I want to take advantage of this column’s publication in May to thank nurses across the ...