Ontario long-term care homes are asking the province to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for their staff as well as healthcare workers in all settings. The Ontario Long-Term Care Association (OLTCA) says making vaccines mandatory province wide would both protect residents and ensure facilities don’t lose their staff to other healthcare facilities.
Interviews are essential to any recruitment process, which is why you should always take some time to prepare for them. To help you out, in this article we have put together a list of the most common PSW interview questions you're likely to be asked during an interview for this type of caregiving role.
The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) has warned that an impending surge in virus case counts could represent a threat to the province. “This pandemic is ending but a fourth wave could still inflict a deadly toll on the unvaccinated,” OHA president Anthony Dale said in a statement. The association called on Ontarians who had not yet received two doses to get fully immunized before an anticipated autumn increase in case counts—in what is now being called the pandemic of the unvaccinated.
A new report has ranked Canada's health system second last, ahead of the United States, among high-income countries. The report, released by the Commonwealth Fund, ranked 11 nations on key health-system measures, including equity, access to care, affordability, health-care outcomes, and administrative efficiency. The report found that the top-performing health systems overall are in Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia.
Each year, Canada receives thousands of immigrants from around the world with diverse professional backgrounds, including health care. Some of these foreign workers have trained in nursing in their home countries and many of them wish to continue developing their careers in the same field once they settle in their new lives. In this article we talk about PSW jobs for international nurses, explaining why this is would be a great opportunity for them and how to find this type of employment.
Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says more than 80 per cent of people in the province aged 12 and older have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That means one of three conditions the province has set for moving beyond Step 3 of its reopening plan has now been met.
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