Pre-register online now for the Area Coordinators Conferences (ACC) Health and Safety Caucus 2010
Pre-registration for the May 2010 Area Coordinators Conferences (ACC) Health and Safety Caucus 2010 is now open. Please pre-register online today.
Register now for the Mar. 29 Provincial Professional Practice Teleconnect
This one-hour session will address issues and strategies on how to effectively discuss your workload and/or PRC with your Manager. ONA’s Professional Practice Specialists will provide information on how ONA leaders can help their members deal with this important first stage of the PRC process.
International Women’s Day 2010
The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is celebrating the achievements and drawing attention to the struggles of women on the 102nd International Women’s Day (IWD). This year’s themes are: “Demand Good Jobs and Good Pensions, Defend Public Services, End Violence and Exploitation.”
National Social Work Week 2010
The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is pleased to celebrate the role and contributions of social workers during National Social Work Week (NSWW), March 1 to 7. This year’s theme is “Poverty: There are Solutions – Social Workers Making a Difference.”
President's Message
The nursing shortage:
The “five-per-cent solution” is not good enough!
The news media are increasingly filled with stories of nursing cuts at healthcare facilities in every corner of Ontario. They as often as not include quotes from management about how “patient care will not be affected” or comments from politicians talking about how much the Liberal government has done to hire thousands of new nurses.
While the provincial government continues to say they respect RNs and are working to support the profession, they — along with our employers and the LHINs — are staying silent as hospitals cut RN positions to save money.
Media Releases
TORONTO, March 08, 2010
Throne Speech: Front-line nurses say health-care changes must benefit patient care
COBOURG, March 08, 2010
Fight back against the devaluing of nurses’ work
Canadian Blood Services (CBS) has proposed to eliminate nurses from direct donor screening, replacing them with graduates from an eight-week college course.
Nurses at CBS do not just check off boxes. They use all their education and clinical background to make sure it is safe for people to donate blood.
Send an email to the Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, urging her to think like a nurse, put safety first, and reject the CBS proposal to remove nurses from nursing work.
2010 International Year of the Nurse
The 2010 International Year of the Nurse (IYNurse) is the centennial year of the death of the founder of modern nursing — Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).
To celebrate this historic milestone, the 2010 IYNurse was established to actively involve the world’s nurses — estimated to be more than 15 million — in a celebration of commitment to bring health to their communities, locally and worldwide.
Poll
Some hospital administrators have said that cutting more nurses won’t affect patient care.
Do you agree that cutting nurses is cutting care?
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