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Nurses in Niagara say new provincial orders are putting them on professionally shaky ground by having them work in settings they re not used to. SEIU Healthcare says nurses across Ontario are dealing with the same issue.(Hamilton Health Sciences)
Some Ontario nurses say they re worried they may end up losing their licences for taking on extra work as hospitals try to manage an influx of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The province recently issued an order to allow health-care professionals, like nurses working in hospitals, to provide care outside their typical scope of practice provided it s to help fight the pandemic.
TORONTO A new report released by cybersecurity company Emsisoft estimates that ransomware demands increased by more than 80 per cent globally in 2020, with hundreds of millions of dollars estimated to have been paid out in ransoms in Canada alone. ID Ransomware is a service that allows victims of ransomware attacks to upload their compromised data for it to be analyzed in order to find out if it is salvageable and who the attack was perpetrated by. Submissions to ID Ransomware constitute a confirmed incident of a ransomware attack, the report says, estimating there were a total of 506,185 during 2020 – but “truly accurate projections are impossible due to limited datasets and information sharing limitations.”
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All hands are on deck at one Toronto vaccination clinic where surgeons and students alike are working together to inoculate as many people as possible in an effort to contain a tidal wave of new COVID-19 infections.
Sixty-odd nursing students have been doing a work placement at the Downsview Arena clinic, run by Humber River Hospital, helping to guide clients through the vaccination process, said 27-year-old Jessica Su, who’s in her fourth year of nursing school.
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BRAUN: Ontario nurses claim they have been muzzled by college College of Nurses of Ontario allegedly threatening to yank license of nurses who don’t stick to the COVID script
Author of the article: Liz Braun
Publishing date: Apr 15, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read • Toronto nurse Jessica Faraone is pictured on the balcony of her condo on March 7., 2021. She is in quarantine at home after returning last week from Tanzania where she volunteered at a medical clinic. Photographer Jack Boland took this picture from the ground while Faraone stood on her fourth-floor balcony. Photo by JACK BOLAND /TORONTO SUN
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