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Congratulations you chose nursing as your field of study. There is so much demand for nurses across Canada and there will be no shortage of jobs when you graduate. However graduating nursing school is not walk in the park.  Bachelor in Nursing in Canada is typically a 4-year program and you graduate as a Registered Nurse (RN). The program prepares the RN to give direct care and to take on the role of coordinating care for individuals, families, groups, communities and populations in a variety of health care setting and with a variety of health professionals. Clinical instruction prepares the RN to take a...

You are at a point in your life to make important career decisions. One of the fields you are considering of choosing is nursing. While nursing is such an integral part of the healthcare system, it could also be one of the most stressful occupations.  Accentuated with the pandemic, the nursing occupation is in all-time high demand and escaped at the same time.   If you are planning to become a nurse you should ask yourself the following questions:  Do I love people?  Do I love helping people? Am I able to provide compassionate care?  Do I keep my own emotions in...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on our health care system, in particular on health care workers on the front lines of caring for Canadians.  Nurses have been working tirelessly over the last couple of years in response to the pandemic, doing their best to keep us out of hospitals, treat the ill, vaccinate people and educate communities all the while trying to keep themselves and their families safe. If you live in a household with a healhcare provider you would know first hand how challenging and stressful the last 2 years was on each and every healthcare provider and their immediate...

Congratulations! After years of studying you graduated from the Nursing school and you are starting your first job at a hospital or a healthcare facility.  You are in luck if your workplace is providing you with a few pairs of nurse scrubs. But you are deservingly feeling that you are one of Charlie’s Angels and those baggy scrubs do not make you look or feel like one of the angels.  But we came a long way since the days when your only option was the hospital provided scrubs. There are so many great options out there to make you comfortable...

Ontario Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore attended a press briefing at the Queens Park Legislature, in Toronto, on Monday, November 14, 2022, first time since August 2022. Ontario's chief medical officer of health is "strongly recommending" that Ontarians wear masks in all indoor public settings, including in schools and in childcare settings, but stopped short of recommending a return to a mask mandate in the province. At the news conference on Monday, Dr. Kieran Moore said the province's health system is facing "extraordinary pressures" with the ongoing circulation of COVID-19, the earlier than normal rise in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), as...