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Health-care situation in Gaza 'unbearable'
Canadian physician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan says she heard from doctors in Gaza regularly before communication was cut off. She shared a message she received from one of her nursing colleagues on the ground, who wrote that 'death did not...
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Canada’s nurse recruitment leaves Ghana short-staffed
Canada has been looking outside its borders to fill a critical nurse shortage, but recruitment efforts are leaving Ghana’s hospitals short-staffed. Now Ghana’s nurse association says Canada should foot the bill for their training.
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Can AI Fight Burnout for America’s Healthcare Workers?
Jeff DiLullo, Executive Vice President and Chief Region Leader, Philips North America, David Entwistle, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sandford Health Care, Fritz Francois, Executive Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of...
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Private agency nurses cost much more. Hospitals need them anyway
Canadian hospitals are facing a nursing shortage partly because many nurses have left for more flexible, higher paying nursing agencies. CBC’s Christine Birak found out why the cost to the public system is more than just financial and...
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Hunt for next Raptors coach after Nick Nurse fired
The search for a new Toronto Raptors head coach is officially on after the team fired Nick Nurse, surprising many of his fans.
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NYC Nurses Strike Comes to An End
Thousands of New York City nurses are back at work after a strike ended at two of the city's biggest hospitals.
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Nova Scotia experiencing severe nursing shortage
The CBC's Brett Ruskin in Halifax says the nursing shortage in Nova Scotia is so severe that some health-care centres have an 80 per cent vacancy rate. The province is using high financial incentives to lure new nurses.
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More Than 7,000 NYC Nurses on Day 2 of Strike
More than 7,000 nurses in New York City are back on the picket lines.
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Nurses in UK to go on strike next month
UK nurses will make the biggest walkout in the history of Britain’s National Health Service.
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New Brunswick's 2 largest hospitals ration emergency services due to nursing shortage
New Brunswick's two largest hospitals are scaling back emergency services due to a chronic nursing shortage.
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Hospitals reassign staff, close beds to cope with labour shortage
Manitoba’s busiest emergency department was forced to close half of its beds this weekend due to a lack of nurses. It’s just one example of how hospitals across the country continue to struggle.
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Ottawa appoints chief nursing officer to help solve health worker shortage
The federal government has named Leigh Chapman as its new chief nursing officer, a role reinstated as provinces across the country grapple with a health-care system in crisis.
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Ontario health-care unions propose plan to remedy hospital staffing shortages
Three Ontario health-care unions have proposed a plan calling on the province to address hospital staffing shortages, while new Statistics Canada data highlights 22,000 health-sector jobs lost in July 2022.
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Overworked N.L. nurse quits permanent job
Lauren Byrne quit her full-time job as an emergency room nurse in Newfoundland and Labrador because of a crushing workload and went casual, something her nursing colleagues are also considering.
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N.L. faces acute nursing shortage, calls in costly private agencies
Newfoundland and Labrador and other provinces across Canada are grappling with a dwindling number of registered nurses, forcing governments and health agencies to rely on travel nurses, a much more expensive option.
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Sudan: More than 200,000 children are starving in Darfur
Maluntirtion on the rise the Darfur region of Sudan where two hundred thousand children don’t have enough to eat.
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Rising job vacancies, poor working conditions among nurses’ pandemic concerns
A new report from the International Council of Nurses details soaring job vacancies and widespread concerns about poor working conditions for Canada's nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has worsened a global nursing shortage....
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What it’s like being a front-line nurse during this wave of COVID-19
Nurses at three hospitals in three provinces share their experiences, worries and exhaustion as the Omicron variant pushes more COVID-19 cases through the doors, and more hospital staff members into isolation.
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Montreal nurse expresses concern over new Quebec measures
Description: Front-line nurse Naveed Hussain said the Quebec government's plan to allow some health-care workers to stay on the job even if they test positive for COVID-19 is 'extremely risky.'
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Patients shocked after learning they’d been treated by fake nurse
A woman has been charged with fraud and personation after allegedly posing as a nurse at a Vancouver hospital for more than a year, leaving several patients in disbelief.
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Italy's tighter vaccination rules boost coronavirus jabs
The CBC's Megan Williams in Rome says Italy's new 'super green pass' system that demands people show proof of a COVID-19 vaccine for some activities is helping boost vaccination numbers. (Ciro de Luca/Reuters)
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Nurse helps save family trapped in B.C. landslide
Nurse Laura Ronson talks to Ian Hanomansing about jumping in to help rescue a family whose van had fallen over a cliff after a landslide on a B.C. highway.
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Health workers 'past the point of exhaustion,' says head of nursing association
Urgent action is needed to help support Canada's medical workforce amid a crushing fourth wave of COVID-19, says Tim Guest, president of the Canadian Nurses Association.(Credit: CBC/Evan Mitsui)
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Health-care workers, associations condemn hospital protests
Tim Guest, president of the Canadian Nurses Association, joins Power & Politics to discuss the protests that took place at hospitals around the country.