When nurse practitioner Vanessa Wright began working with refugees at the Crossroads Clinic at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital in 2011, she braced herself for the difficult stories she thought patients would disclose about their journeys and the trauma that precipitated their flights.
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Focused on helping move refugees forward
Because it allows the ideas and concerns of an individual or a group to be shared through their photos, Photovoice aligns well as a public health strategy to engage vulnerable populations
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Public health strategy: Photovoice contest
At the moment my cellphone rang, the day was shaping up to be like many others I’d spent with my nursing students.
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Thinking on our feet
For more than a decade, the last week in October has been all about patient safety in Canadian health care. Thousands of health-care providers from across our country celebrate collective advances in safe care and renew their passion and enthusiasm for what they do. Of all the celebrations that were...
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A campaign woven into the fabric of patient safety
Party affiliations aside, these new and re-elected members of Parliament share a background in nursing and a commitment to serve Canadians
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A political force for health
Now that the Liberals are in power, what will their election campaign promises mean for health care and the health system?
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A new government: A new open and collaborative era?
In this third article, I present two scenarios in which a capable individual’s wish is for assisted death.
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Ethics in practice: At end of life — part 3
CNA’s Certification Program turns 25 in 2016, and big changes are coming. New and renewing candidates will apply for specialty certification exclusively online and take the exams at computer-based testing centres across the country.
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Certification program goes paperless
After an accident in 2011, I sensed something was wrong but couldn’t figure out what it was. I had no visible wound, nothing I could relate my symptoms to (headache, back pain and foggy thinking).
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A different spin on mentoring
We mark Remembrance Day with an excerpt from an article in the November 1966 issue, in which four nursing sisters reflected on their wartime service.
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“Over There” in World War II