Have you ever wanted to sit down with an employer and ask them about their recruitment practices? Well, we did just that! At the Caring Support Podcast, we recently had two talent acquisition specialists from CBI Health, Canada's leading community healthcare provider, and we asked them questions that will help healthcare workers understand recruitment better and find success in their search for new employment opportunities.
Ontario has asked thousands of family healthcare workers to work evenings and weekends to help ease the burden on overwhelmed children's hospitals. In a memo sent by the director of the primary health care branch in the Ministry of Health, they said that due to the "difficult and complex" respiratory illness surge, they request organizations "to offer clinical services 7 days a week, including evening availability, until further notice, to meet the needs of patients."
Lakeshore Lodge is part of the CareTO pilot project to improve care in long-term care homes in Toronto. The facility is the first of the city's municipally-run long-term care settings to receive extra funding to make the care more resident-centred and shift away from the traditional task-based care model. This allows residents to have more choices: in what they eat, when they get up in the morning, and even in the colour of the hallways.
Union and collaboration make all the difference in any profession, but especially in healthcare, and no other group benefits more from sticking together than PSWs, who play such an integral role in the healthcare sector in Ontario and across the country. With that in mind, we recently spoke with Miranda Ferrier, CEO of OPSWA, where she spoke about the resources and opportunities available for those who join the organization and their vision for the future of the PSW profession in the province.
Physiotherapy is a broad field within healthcare, with many sub-specialties dedicated to treating different conditions and illnesses. One of those specialties is physiotherapy for paralysis. This article discusses if this is a good career or not while providing all the details you need to understand what this role is about. Keep reading to find out!
According to experts on the subject, Canada has no national database for its more than 100 health authorities and regions to compare human resources and health data. This includes everything from wait times to staffing shortages. Medical front-line staff say problems persist when it comes to sharing everything from patient information to aggregate medical and staffing data.
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