Nurses
It’s time to let family caregivers back into Ontario nursing homes, medical officer says
Dr. Jobin Varughese knows all too well the heartbreaking toll wrought by COVID-19 at Ontario’s long-term care homes. He’s chief medical officer at...
Canada Day: Big parties give way to online shows amid coronavirus pandemic
Canadians celebrated a Canada Day like no other as they marked the national holiday under unprecedented circumstances. Canada Day 2020 took place amid both a...
Virtual Canada Day citizenship ceremony celebrates nurses, care workers
When Sweeny Karande was in her nursing program in India, her teacher presented her with an award as the best outgoing student. “This...
B.C. investigating allegations ER staff played ‘game’ to guess blood-alcohol level of Indigenous patients
British Columbia is investigating allegations health-care staff in emergency rooms were playing a “game” to guess the blood-alcohol level of Indigenous patients, behaviour officials...
Video captures residents wandering into woman’s room at Ottawa long-term care home hit hard by COVID-19
A camera installed by a woman concerned about her mother’s health inside an Ottawa long-term care home overwhelmed by COVID-19 shows several residents...
Nursing home told families hospital wouldn’t accept sick residents during pandemic. That wasn’t true
The long-term care home where more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic than anywhere else in Ontario is facing new scrutiny. Families...
Witness video captures violent takedown of elderly Black couple at GTA hospital
An elderly Black couple are alleging that Durham Regional Police and staff at an Ajax, Ont., hospital, assaulted and abused them during a fall...
Doctor linked to Campbellton COVID-19 cluster says he made ‘an error in judgment’
The doctor at the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak in the Campbellton, N.B., area says he’s not sure whether he picked up the...
Family says ‘back and forth’ between N.S., Ottawa over shooting probe ‘unreal’
A Nova Scotia family has made a passionate appeal for the federal and Nova Scotia governments to end the “back and forth” over...
Provincial health officer says physical distancing in Phase 2 going well as B.C. records 10 new cases
THE LATEST: 10 more people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in British Columbia, bringing the total to 2,517. Two more people have died...
N.W.T. health officials considering using recycled surgical masks
Health officials say there are enough protective face masks for health-care workers in the Northwest Territories to last “several weeks,” but they are bracing...
Nigeria news : COVID-19 Nurses make demands from Buhari’s govt
Nigeria news : COVID-19: Nurses make demands from Buhari’s govt, The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), has called on the...
