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Article content Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) in Northern Ontario are experiencing greater levels of anxiety, workplace violence, workload pressures and other negative impacts when compared to other RPNs across Ontario. The details, outlined in an RPN Members’ Survey, were released Wednesday by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (OCHU/CUPE) in an online teleconference. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your brow...

Expert: Finland needs 30k more healthcare workers by 2030 One third of Finnish municipalities report ongoing recruitment problems as an expert warns an acute shortage is looming. A government commitment to increasing the nursing quota at elderly care facilities has accelerated the need for more healthcare staff. Image: Jari Kovalainen / Yle Finland is expected to need recruiting around 30,000 more nurses by the year 2030 to meet the demands of an aging population and the obligations set out in ...

Nurses union criticises THL, employer over care home Covid outbreak A total of 13 deaths linked to coronavirus have been reported at the facility since a localised outbreak in early December. Rauhaniemi care home in Tampere. Image: Marjut Suomi / Yle The Finnish Union of Practical Nurses (SuPer) says that workers at a Tampere care home that has seen 13 people die of coronavirus since December were not provided with sufficient protective equipment. SuPer blames the City of Tampere, which owns ...

Photo provided Associate Degree Nursing student Billy Propes working with WSCC’s new patient simulator, Pediatric Hal. Washington State Community College has augmented its nursing lab with two additional human patient simulators. These robot-like mannequins allow for scenario-based training by replicating the clinical experience. They will also serve to supplement some of the hands-on hospital training. Simulation learning is the process where students practice a procedure in a controlled lea...