Author of the article: Steph Crosier
Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 4 minute read Megan Kearns, intensive care nurse at Kingston Health Sciences Centre. Photo by Steph Crosier /The Whig-Standard
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Before intensive care nurse Megan Kearns walks into a patient’s room, she has already tried to get to know them. In one room she’ll play some Cher, in another she’ll have a dad joke ready. All just in case they’re listening.
Lately, her patients have been some of the sickest she’s every seen in her 23 years on the job, and the staff in the intensive care unit at Kingston General Hospital are working around the clock.
Author of the article: Steph Crosier
Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • May 14, 2021 • 4 minute read Megan Kearns, intensive care nurse at Kingston Health Sciences Centre. Photo by Steph Crosier /The Whig-Standard
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Before intensive care nurse Megan Kearns walks into a patient’s room, she has already tried to get to know them. In one room she’ll play some Cher, in another she’ll have a dad joke ready. All just in case they’re listening.
Lately, her patients have been some of the sickest she’s every seen in her 23 years on the job, and the staff in the intensive care unit at Kingston General Hospital are working around the clock.
Twenty-seven Queen’s medical students have been delivering online first-aid lessons to elementary school students since last November through the Jr. Medics…
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Publishing date: May 10, 2021 • 5 days ago • 2 minute read Quinn, 7, proudly shows her arts and science projects done at the Boys and Girls Club of Kingston and Area Emergency Childcare Centre programs. Photo by Boys and Girls Club /Supplied Photo
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“Grateful sums it up for me,” says Sarah, mother of seven-year old Quinn and a nurse practitioner at Kingston Health Sciences Centre. “Working at the hospital, remote work was not an option for me … and as a single mom, there was no option other than BGC for us.”
A Boys and Girls Club of Kingston member since kindergarten, Quinn has attended programs throughout the whole past year of the pandemic, from Emergency Childcare Centre, summer camps and after-school programs.
This critical care paramedic worked a week of 12-hour shifts to help keep Ontario s ICUs from overflowing
In order to make room in crowded hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area, critical care paramedics with Ornge are transferring COVID patients to facilities in Kingston, London, St. Catharines, Barrie, Peterborough, Ottawa, Thunder Bay and Sudbury.
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The pandemic s third wave has hard-hit ICUs in Ontario sending patients to hospitals that are less busy. Ornge provides patient transportation by air and by land in vehicles staffed by critical care paramedics like Joanne Skinner, of Timmins, Ont. (Brian Goldman/CBC)