The group showed that 42% of its membership recently left a position or are considering leaving as the advocate group wanrs NPs are overburdened and burned out. The NPNB adds six nurse practitioners left the Saint John region over the past year, with
To address chronic shortages, ongoing burnout, consistent overtime, poor mental health and poor working conditions the report lays out a strategy with three steps: retain and support, return and integrate and recruit and mentor. Specifically, it
The former policy forced doctors to limit the number of services they could bill for each day. The provincial government hopes removing the cap will address immediate pressures on the healthcare system. Physicians in specialties like family medicine
The program will be called the Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE) program and $1.16 million in funding is being provided to make changes. Horizon will hire full-time FNEs in Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, Upper River Valley and Miramichi. Previously
Avec une pénurie de personnel et la hausse des virus respiratoire au Qc, les urgences des hôpitaux pédiatriques comme le CHU Sainte-Justine débordent. Toutefois, les parents sont en mesure d’éviter 10-12 heures d’attente dans les hôpitaux en se
A cardiovascular specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto teamed with a palliative care physician to develop a collaborative at-home palliative care approach in which heart-failure patients receive care from a team that includes cardiologists
CIHI found cases of pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores, rose from 3,109 in 2017-2018 to 4,440 for the year ending Mar. 31, 2022. Over that same time, the rate of bedsores for every 100 hospitalizations rose from 0.13 to 0.19. Wounds Canada says
A national report assessing autism services across Canada reveals an evidence gap on rates of autism among Indigenous people in Canada. The barriers non-Indigenous autism patients face are exacerbated by colonization and related intergenerational
Most Canadian children and adolescents can’t get timely, quality, first-line treatments for anxiety disorders. The Canadian Paediatric Society guidelines are the first from the organization to specifically address anxiety disorders, which are among
Managed by the BC Centre for Disease Control, the Toxic Drug and Health Alerts System sends text notifications to subscribers who want information about illicit substances and increases in toxic drug poisonings in their region. The system is also a