The Ontario government is investing $34 million over four years to increase enrolment in nursing and personal support worker (PSW) programs at six Indigenous Institutes. Funding will help provide culturally responsive education and training pathways for learners. This investment will help participating Indigenous Institutes to expand existing programs or create new ones to support the training of approximately 340 practical nurses, 60 registered nurses and 400 PSWs over four years.
Western University’s Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing is partnering with Fanshawe College to create an opportunity for registered practical nurses (RPNs) with some university experience to enter a fast track program to receive a bachelor of science in nursing, opening up students’ eligibility to apply for registered nurse (RN) status following graduation. The initiative was created in response to critical shortages in the profession and it will accept graduates from Fanshawe’s practical nu
The first Canadian COVID-19 vaccine, by Quebec-based company Medicago, has been approved for use by Health Canada. The home-grown vaccine, called Covifenz, marks the world’s first ever plant-based jab authorized for human use and is also the first Canadian shot to be approved in over 20 years.
Ontario long-term care homes where the majority of residents have 3 or 4 COVID-19 vaccine doses, have been spared mass deaths during the Omicron wave despite infection levels similar to those seen in early 2020, according to new figures from the province. New data shows 6,572 residents caught the virus between Dec. 15, 2021 and Jan. 29, 2022 (more than the 6,001 confirmed during the first wave) but only 251 COVID-19-related deaths were reported, compared with the 1,940 deaths of the first wave.
The Canadian Nurses Association, the national organization dedicated to championing nurses across Canada, today unveiled a massive, 28-storey reminder to people in Canada of the immense role nurses have played and continue to play amidst the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, which has created a health-care crisis. The mural, entitled “We Are Nurses — We Answer The Call,” is located at Toronto’s Dixon Hall shelter in the Yonge-Dundas area.
The city of London is getting nearly 300 new and upgraded long-term care beds as part of the Ontario government’s $6.4-billion pledge to improve care homes by creating more than 30,000 new long-term care spaces by 2028 and upgrading 28,000 more. According to the Long-Term Care Minister, Paul Calandra, two long-term care homes in London will get 92 new and 196 renovated beds for more residents to be "near their family and friends and in a community that they have helped build,” said the Minister.
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