Professional Practice

March 2016 Features  Comments

Focused on helping move refugees forward

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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January 2016 Promising Practices  Comments

Public health strategy: Photovoice contest

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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January 2016 Reflection  Comments

Thinking on our feet

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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January 2016 The Last Word  Comments

A campaign woven into the fabric of patient safety

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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January 2016 On the Job  Comments

A political force for health

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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January 2016 Features  Comments

A new government: A new open and collaborative era?

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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November 2015 Features  Comments

Ethics in practice: At end of life — part 3

In this third article, I present two scenarios in which a capable individual’s wish is for assisted death.

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November 2015 Features  Comments

Certification program goes paperless

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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November 2015 Reflection  Comments

A different spin on mentoring

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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November 2015 Perspectives  Comments

“Over There” in World War II

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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