Ontario Nurses Association
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Long ER wait times, high nurse vacancy rates plague several Toronto hospitalsKey health-care indicators at several major Toronto hospitals are bad or worsening. Emergency room and paramedic wait times, along with nursing vacancies, are all high.HealthAug 11
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Croatian nurse sets sights on Texas instead of ‘complicated’ Ontario systemDomagoj Tonžetić said he found the system of applying to work as a nurse in an Ontario hospital convoluted to the point of being unworkable.HealthAug 4
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Staffing crunch hits several Ontario hospitals hard, nurses union raises concernsThe Ontario Nurses' Association says in a statement that it is "outraged and alarmed" about the effect the province's nursing shortage is having on patient care.HealthJul 29
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Nursing students backstop Toronto ER in ‘tight situation,’ union concernedUHN runs two ERs, at Toronto General and Toronto Western hospitals, but did not say which one was affected over the weekend.HealthJul 25
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Doug Ford agrees to $5,000 retention bonus for front-line nurses in Ontario, union says'The retention bonus negotiated today is for a lump-sum, $5,000 payment and the premier indicated that this will go to the Treasury Board as early as next week for approval.'CanadaFeb 11
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Doug Ford to meet again with Ontario nurses’ union on worker retention planOntario Premier Doug Ford is expected to meet again next week with the president of a union representing nurses to discuss plans to retain workers in the field.CanadaFeb 4
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Emergency order expiration fumbles Ontario’s urgent call for retired nursesOn Dec. 22, the Ford government asked retired health-care workers return to the workforce to help the province ramp up its COVID-19 booster dose rollout as Omicron cases surged.PoliticsJan 13
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‘Burnt out and pushed beyond their limits’: nurses struggle to work and care for own familiesNurses across the country say the fourth wave is pushing them to exhaustion and it's taking a toll on their families.HealthSep 28, 2021
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ONA says understaffing at ‘unsafe point’ at Hamilton Program for SchizophreniaThe 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.'HealthJun 22, 2021
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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."HealthOct 20, 2020
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