Ontario Nurses Association

• ONA says understaffing at ‘unsafe point’ at Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia

  The ONA says conciliation was held June 21 to resolve the funding and staffing challenges, but Vicki McKenna says 'they haven't been able to make any substantive progress.'

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  Jun 22
• Nurse suffers injury at work days after Newmarket hospital fined for workplace violations

  “We are living through one pandemic, we don’t want to start another pandemic of violence."

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  Oct 20, 2020
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• Southlake Regional Health Centre to lay off almost 100 registered nurses

  Newmarket's Southlake Regional Health Centre said Wednesday it will lay off 95 registered nurses, but plans to hire 81 people into new positions.

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  Sep 23, 2020
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• Ontario nurses groups concerned over regulatory body’s plan to expand RPN duties

  They say the move planned by the College of Nurses of Ontario would make the scope of practice for registered nurses and registered practical nurses virtually identical.

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  Sep 23, 2020
• Coronavirus: Ontario nurses call for smaller class sizes, use of masks in schools

  The CEO of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario has made the request in a letter to the province's chief medical officer of health.

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  Aug 24, 2020
• Ontario’s nurses say coronavirus pandemic highlights need for sweeping reforms

  Ontario's health-care system must shift its focus away from hospitals and towards strong community care for everyone if it hopes to stave off future crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization representing the province's nurses said Tuesday as it called for urgent, sweeping reforms.

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  May 12, 2020
• Coronavirus: Ontario Superior Court orders 4 long-term care homes to equip nurses with protective equipment

  "Nurses are not to be impeded in making an assessment and determination at point of care as to what PPE or other measures are appropriate and required under the circumstances."

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  Apr 23, 2020
• Coronavirus: Ontario Nurses’ Association calls work conditions in care homes ‘unfathomable’

  The association said in a statement Wednesday that long-term care homes pre-COVID-19 were already understaffed, but now they are in "crisis" mode.

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  Apr 15, 2020
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• Nurses’ union raises alarm over supply of personal protective equipment in southwestern Ontario

  Southwestern Ontario hospitals are down to a five-day supply of surgical face masks with face shields and a seven-day supply of N95 1870 masks, according to the union.

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  Apr 3, 2020
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• Coronavirus: Kitchener hospital responds to nurses association concerns about COVID-19

  On Saturday, the ONA called on St. Mary's General Hospital to "expedite COVID-19 testing" after more than 50 nurses were reportedly exposed to the new coronavirus.

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  Mar 22, 2020