Canadian Nurse

June 2014 Ask the Expert Comments

Occupational hazards: Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout

Q. I am feeling a lot of stress at work right now, and I’m bringing it home with me. I want to understand what I’m experiencing. What are the effects of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout?

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June 2014 Perspectives Comments

Survey: Digital health tools making a difference

The first quantitative research conducted with Canadian nurses about their use of digital health technologies in practice has demonstrated that a majority see the benefits in using digital health tools and consider themselves confident using electronic clinical information systems and tools in...

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June 2014 President's Message Comments

Signing off: Memories and meaning

This month, I mark two milestones. It was 20 years ago that I was asked to join the executive of the Community Health Nurses’ Initiatives Group (CHNIG) of RNAO.

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June 2014 CNA now Comments

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June 2014
Comments The Last Word

What’s in your police record?

“Please note that the successful candidate will be required to provide a police record check as a condition of employment.” That line has become so commonplace in job postings and volunteer position descriptions that many Canadians do not give it a second thought.

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June 2014
Comments Feedback

An alert from Riyadh

I am a Canadian nurse who worked for the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto during the SARS outbreak. Currently, I am teaching at a university in Riyadh, where we are facing an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (commonly called MERS-CoV or MERS)....

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June 2014
Comments Reflection

The voice of nursing policy

In 2004, Sandra MacDonald-Rencz assumed the role of executive director of Health Canada’s Office of Nursing Policy. The ONP was created in 1999 as a way for nursing to more effectively contribute to the policy agenda of Health Canada and to create a stronger, more complementary and transparent...

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June 2014
Comments Perspectives

The power of longhand

Students who write notes by hand learn more from their lectures than students who type notes on a laptop, new research indicates. In a study published in Psychological Science, 65 college students were given either a laptop or a notebook to take notes while watching a TED talk on an interesting, but...

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June 2014
Comments Perspectives

Home

Putting Housing First

Creating a safe harbour

When mental illness and the justice system intersect

Leading change in wound care

Occupational hazards: Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout

Survey: Digital health tools making a difference

Signing off: Memories and meaning

CNA Now

What’s in your police record?

An alert from Riyadh

The voice of nursing policy

The power of longhand

My brain made me eat it

June 20 is World Refugee Day

Increasing stress to fight back against depression