@SickkidsNews ER RN. College Faculty. @RNAO member. Views are mine. She/her.
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In a recent @globeandmail op-ed, @picardonhealth says that addressing racism in health care requires collecting race-based data.
Such data ensures that communities who are too often marginalized or overlooked are heard—a critical first step in correcting disparities.
Read the full story: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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From long shifts to caring for the most vulnerable, nurses are the backbone of our health system.
On #IWD2026, we honour the women in nursing for their demonstrating their strength, compassion, knowledge and resilience every day.
Are you a nurse? If so, thank you. 💪💙
#InternationalWomensDay
ALT International Women's Day graphics by RNAO commemorating the day. The graphic features the silhouette of a woman's face composed of many smaller images of diverse women.
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Proud to serve as an External Reviewer and just in time for #BlackHistoryMonth, @RNAO releases the Best Practice Guidelines for Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Nursing. rnao.ca/bpg/guidelines/addre…
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Jan 9
RT @NYGH_News: NYG’s Dr. Kevin Wasko, Chief of Emergency Medicine and Program Medical Director, was interviewed on @globalnews about the ri…
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Dr. Iris Grofinkel knocks it out of the park with pragmatic solutions for improving the wait in Ontario healthcare. The core of the problem is "every dollar Ontario shifts to private medicine is a dollar not spent on public health-care". @DrGorfinkel
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Stay informed:
7 Nov 2025
For the first time, nearly 2,000 Black women, girls & gender-diverse people share their lived experiences in Voices Unheard, a national call to action for health equity in Canada.
Read the full report 👇
🔗 bwhealthinstitute.com/voices…
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6 Nov 2025
Researchers from @UHN’s @SchroederInst find a potential blood marker to detect ulcerative colitis in patients with axial #spondyloarthritis, offering a less invasive way to diagnose IBD and improve early detection.
🔗 Read more: uhnresearch.ca/news/new-clue…
ALT Hand wearing a medical glove, holding blood test tubes.
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Our Back to School campaign has been extended to Nov 12th! All nursing students can join @RNAO for FREE at join.RNAO.ca 🍂 🏫
Student Memberships also now renew automatically every year until your expected graduation date!
#nursingstudents #BacktoSchool
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2 Jan 2025
No Canadian ER docs say the system is perfect. ER is the underbelly. ER docs understand the brutal reality many face. But "broken" delegitimizes the millions attending ER annually with a reasonable experience and the many with excellent care. @CAEP_Docs
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2 Jan 2025
My College has had to close dozens of programs and lay off so many valued, wonderful, staff.
@fordnation simply refuses to support our post-secondary educational institutions properly. It's absolutely ridiculous how this man is destroying our province. #ForWhichPeople? #onpoli
31 Dec 2024
Minister overruled: Ontario Premier Doug Ford shut down internal recommendations to raise tuition rates for college and university students. Confidential government documents, leaked to Global News, reveal that the Ministry of College and Universities was prepared to raise tuition.
globalnews.ca/news/10318970/…
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3 Jan 2025
NEW: Today, I’m releasing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on the causal link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. Alcohol is the 3rd leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S., contributing to about 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year.
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29 Nov 2024
'Mind boggling' surge in walking pneumonia cases among teens and young adults, by @egpayne via @OttawaCitizen ottawacitizen.com/news/local…
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18 Oct 2024
Health-care workers at @SickKidsNews are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff.
Read our full joint media release: ona.org/news-posts/20241017-…
#onhealth #onlab
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3 Oct 2024
Toronto hospital system offers housing to homeless ER patients. @UHN project designed to improve lives of people experiencing #homelessness while reducing use of the strained public health care system, by @kellygrant1 theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… via @globeandmail @drandrewb
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3 Oct 2024
Today marks the opening of Canada’s first-hospital-led supportive housing.
Dunn House will integrate social and health supports for 51 UHN patients who will have access to safe, permanent, and affordable housing.
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11 Sep 2024
Tonight in Philly 🤣
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2 Jul 2024
We really do care, it's why we're there. ❤️🩹🥹
1 Jul 2024
Most patients don't realize their doctors and nurses think about them in the spaces between visits. While walking to the parking lot, driving home, brushing teeth… even before falling asleep. Our work is a part of us, and we really care about you. That's all.
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