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An Ethical Nurse

As a Nursing Professor and Chair of Ethics at Ryerson Nancy Walton understand the struggle of clinicians and ethicists, this interview explores how she came to love the subject and how she hopes nurses begin to engage with the topic.
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Nursing an Entire Nation

Marla E Salmon ScD, RN, FAAN Dean & Professor – University of Washington School of Nursing A conversation with Marla Salmon ScD RN FAAN, current Dean and Professor at the University of Washington and former Chief Nurse of the United States of America. We discuss her experience working with Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and [...]
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Spreading Good Ideas not Infectious Disease

Dr Michael Gardam Director of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control – Agency for Health Protection and Promotion Director of Infection Prevention and Control – University Health Network An experienced and passionate physician in the field of infection control, Dr Michael Gardam is now working with the Agency for Health Protection and Promotion on provincial issues [...]
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Street Nurse

Cathy Crowe RN
Street Nurse

An interview discussing how nurses can become advocates for those living without housing to improve their health.
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Engaging Students

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Every January the Canadian Nursing Students’ Association holds their National Conference. The location changes each year, and is by the bid-winning school in their city. For the past five years I’ve been fortunate enough to attend this conference, and can’t say enough about it. For those of you thinking about getting into nursing, you should [...]

[Research Challenge]

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This post is my latest update on for my research challenge. The Article: Cheerio, Laddie! Bidding Farewell to the Glasgow Coma Scale Green, S. M. (2011). Cheerio, Laddie! Bidding Farewell to the Glasgow Coma Scale. Annals of emergency medicine, 58(5), 427-430. Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.06.009 Big Idea: The Glasgow Coma Scale was not originally intended to be [...]

A promise to continue improving

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When you have an idea there are two things you can do, take action or do nothing. Most people with innovative ideas or thoughts on how to make things better choose the latter, because there are many reasons people come up with to not do anything. One of the things that holds people [...]

[Conference Handouts] Getting started with social media

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Today I’m presenting at the STTI’s 41st Biennial in Grapevine Texas. Instead of printing a lot of handouts we decided to direct our session attendees online to collect resources. Hopefully it will be an easy dip of the toe into the waters of social media. To help nurses get started with social media I made [...]

If only technology could change behaviour

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Anyone who knows me knows that I love technology, and computers. However, I’m painfully aware that they do not change my behaviour, if so I’d be thinner, faster, strong, smarter and always on schedule. Unfortunately, one thing we have learned over and over again is that technology has potential benefits and real costs. Meaning, technology [...]

Apps by a Nurse

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This post is far overdue, and that I have been excited about for a while. Pillboxie was designed and launched by Jared Sinclair – one of my favourite nurse’s blog to because of his interest in technology and how it relates to patient care and healthcare. The application is based on a simple concept, that [...]