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Ontario clinic’s direct billing highlights grey area around nurse practitioners

A Hamilton, Ont., clinic boasting short wait times for primary care and charging patients straight away insists its model underscores a great need for health services in the community. Holistic Solutions NP in Ancaster has been operating for roughly a month now, using nurse practitioners (NP) who have training to …

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‘It starts with 20’: New practical nurse training centre opens in Neepawa, Man. – Winnipeg

A new health care-related training centre opened in Neepawa, Man., Monday afternoon, in an effort to address rural staffing shortages. Assiniboine Community College (ACC) will offer a two-year practical nursing program as the first program hosted by the facility, which used to be an RCMP detachment, adding 25 new seats. …

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Some Canadian nurse practitioners not being paid for MAID administration – National

For the past year, Ellen Gretsinger, a nurse practitioner in Ontario’s Niagara region, has been providing patients with medically assisted deaths – and not getting paid for it. She has a full-time nursing job and a side gig offering virtual care, and in the evenings and on weekends, assesses patients …

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N.S. nurse tells police review board that officer seemed to blame alleged rape victim – Halifax

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 11, 2023 10:39 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A nurse who examined a Nova Scotia woman to collect evidence of rape is testifying at a hearing into alleged police mishandling of the case. Carrie Low filed a complaint against …

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A look inside the birthing centre at Montreal’s St-Mary’s hospital – Montreal

It’s a typical day in the birthing centre at St-Mary’s hospital in Montreal. There are 10 nurses working, one nursing assistant and a doctor, with six patients checked in. Nurses are routinely checking in on soon-to-be-mothers — taking care of them, but also making them feel at ease. “It’s a …

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Toronto Raptors fire head coach Nick Nurse

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Toronto Raptors have fired head coach Nick Nurse, the team announced on Friday. Nurse joined the Raptors organization in 2013 as an assistant coach before being named the ninth head coach in team history in June 2018. He guided the Raptors …

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Survivor shocked, saddened by Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program staffing challenges – Winnipeg

A sexual assault survivor who got care at Health Sciences Centre’s Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program is shocked and saddened to see its staffing challenges unfold. Seven casual nurses with the program quit this week after working through long-standing shortages that forced some patients to return later for examination …

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Staffing issues still affecting care for sex, domestic assault victims in Winnipeg: nurse – Winnipeg

Staff shortages are still forcing survivors of sexual assault and abuse — including children — to leave without a forensic exam at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre more than a month after the nurses union raised alarms about the issue, according to a nurse working at the hospital. In late January, …

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Sexual assault nurse examiners feel ‘thrown under the bus’ by Higgs, Horizon, says nurse

At least two sexual assault nurse examiners are going to stop picking up extra shifts to help bridge gaps in the program, and others may be poised to leave after recent comments by the premier and the head of Horizon Health Network have made them feel “thrown under the bus,” according …

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