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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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TORONTO More than a thousand registered nurses will be required to move into intensive care to staff the 350 new beds promised by the Ontario government as COVID-19 causes a record high number of patients in need of critical care. Hundreds of nurses are expected to answer the call as volunteers or as part of a deployment within hospitals that now have cancelled or delayed surgeries as part of emergency measures during the pandemic. “My hunch is we will have a few hundred,” said Doris Grinspun, the CEO of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. “We will support any and all initiatives during this crisis to save lives.”
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