We sat down with Barbara Olas, Homayra Ahmed, and Ashley Fox, three wonderful and inspirational women in nursing, to discuss topics such as burnout, new grad tips, and entrepreneurship.
As abortion becomes banned in some U.S. states, advocates and providers think Canada should be prepared for a potential rise in medical tourism. Dr. Dustin Costescu, an OB-GYN at Hamilton Health Sciences, said provinces should increase funding for abortion clinics to ensure they can meet this potential surge in demand, while others think even a small number of Americans with the means to seek abortion care in Canada could pose a problem for clinics that are already strained for capacity.
Two London, Ont., researchers received funding from the federal government to launch a nationwide program that focuses on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the mental well-being of healthcare workers. Dr. Don Richardson and Dr. Anthony Nazarov from the Lawson Health Research Institute got $2.8 million from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to adapt the existing Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) program, originally created for the Canadian Military.
At Caring Support, we make an effort to provide healthcare workers and other people in the industry with as much knowledge as we can about health and wellbeing. That's why on our most recent podcast we talked all about emotional fitness. We sat down with Chantal Dawtrey and Matthew Green, who are emotional fitness experts and coaches from Johannesburg, South Africa, where they run 5th Place, an organization that teaches people how to become and remain emotionally fit.
According to new data from the Angus Reid Institute, most Canadians are deeply unhappy with how their provinces are handling health care in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the eight years since the non-profit institute has been measuring public attitudes toward health care management, the percentage of Canadians who give their provinces a failing grade on health has never been so high.
The record-high wait times in emergency departments in Ontario are in large part symptoms of problems elsewhere in the health-care system, well beyond the emergency room doors. Experts say the key long-term solutions to this involve significant increases in capacity at long-term care homes and a greater supply of home care, both of which are a long way down the healthcare line from the ER, and both of which will take time.
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