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  • Features
    • Nursing Educators: The View from Here
    • Accent on Manitoba
    • Celebrating National Nursing Week
    • Caring in Corrections
    • Exploring the Role of RNs in Family Practice Residency Training Programs
    • An invitation from CPHA
    • In Conversation about Nursing Research
    • Socio-economic status and rates of hospital admission for chronic disease in urban Canada
    • Challenge, Opportunity and Adventure: Stories from Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Setting A New Standard of Care in Nursing Homes
    • What Clinical Learning Contracts Reveal about Nursing Education and Patient Safety
    • Waiting in Line for Health Care
    • Nursing in Nunavut, Part II
    • Waiting to Be Weighed: A Pilot Study of the Effect of Delayed Newborn Weighing on Breastfeeding Outcomes
    • Societal Abuse in the Lives of Individuals with Mental Illness
    • Tributes to Nurses Who Made a Difference
    • Nursing in Nunavut
    • Gaining Insite: Harm Reduction in Nursing Practice
    • Comparing Notes on Workload, Patient Care and the Use of IT
    • Enhancing Ethical Climates in Nursing Work Environments
    • Level of Acceptance of Different Models of Maternity
    • BMI: A Vital Sign For Patients And Health Professionals
  • Access: The CNA Newsletter
  • President's Message
    • A pledge to serve…a promise to act
    • Another coming of age
    • Something to celebrate
    • Valuing our relationships
    • CNA aims high
    • Strategic planning on the move
    • A shot in the arm for collaboration
    • Lest we forget
    • The safety imperative
    • With the presence of a lion…
    • Connecting to the energy within
    • More than meets the eye
    • A difficult month
    • Safety through social identity
    • The spirit of innovation
    • Taking inspiration from an ancient custom
  • CEO Outlook
    • A bountiful summer harvest
    • The torch passes, our work continues
    • In the public interest
    • Taking the pulse
    • An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
    • A call to action
    • A team approach to better care
    • As the year comes to a close
    • United we must stand…for better medicare
    • Health-care infrastructure a sound investment
    • Let’s start a conversation
    • Bringing nurses and ideas together
    • Speak out about the value of nursing
    • Budget delivered some good news
    • Specialty groups’ work enriches us all
    • Back to the heart of Canadian nursing
  • CareerTalk
    • Building successful mentoring relationships
    • Career Resiliency 101
    • You asked us: Questions from rural and remote communities
    • Innovative approaches are needed to support practitioners
  • Commentary
    • It’s all about the attitude
    • In times of transition, seize the opportunity
    • Chronic illness is one part of a life story
    • Coming of age
    • Entering long-term care doesn’t mean one’s sexual life is over
    • Tipping the balance toward healthy lifestyles
  • Feedback
    • Retirees fill health-service gaps
    • Geography lesson
    • Nurses’ safety matters, too
    • Let’s speak up, not break up
    • Move beyond the stereotypes
    • Call off the word search
    • A note to readers
    • Paying tribute to a mentor
    • Allow other options for accessing health care
    • Missing milestones
    • “Am I losing my nursing voice?”
    • Finding terms that fit
    • Educating specialists in continence care
    • “With glowing hearts”
    • Cover nursing’s diverse opportunities
    • Time to address poverty, adopt pharmacare
    • More on continence nursing education
    • Choose your words carefully
    • “Managing Arthritis from a Position of Strength”
    • Protecting the right to make choices about care
    • Reading our readers: Results of our survey
    • With our thanks…
    • The root of the problem
    • NP enjoying the challenge
    • Better protocols and practices for vaccinating children
    • Questioning campaign ethics
    • Hard on the eyes
    • Compassion for our colleagues
    • “Claire’s Story”
    • Liked the look
    • Frozen out of the job market
    • Jaundice program support expands across Alberta
    • Good nursing is ageless
    • "Preparing Students For the World"
    • Reflections on Uganda challenged
    • Circumpolar congress inspires
    • Quality of journal deteriorating
    • Tools effective only if we have access to them
    • Leadership lauded
    • Advocating for those whose voices aren’t heard
    • Straight talk about life in long-term care
    • Nursing shortage challenged
    • Freezing in Alberta
    • Get informed about HPV vaccine
    • Where have all the mentors gone?
    • IT hurdles not easy to clear
    • Ready to pass the torch
    • Choice of photo questioned
    • HPV vaccination program questioned
    • Health-care providers too quick to declare the enemy
    • Focus of care in the NICU shouldn’t be nurse centred
    • Expanding our view of the health-care system
    • A more positive spin on the provision of maternity care
    • Hospitals should practise what we preach
    • Experience in the NICU was eye opening
    • New Ottawa clinic provides much-needed support
    • Positive outcomes of holistic nursing practice
    • Let’s not be so quick to close the door
  • Legal Matters
    • Will an apology prevent a lawsuit?
  • Nurse to Know
    • Nancy MacFadyen’s enrichment course
    • Taking the road to yes
    • Always ready to answer the call
    • Julie Lys’s nursing career begins – and continues – at home 
    • Angela Cooper-Brathwaite: Driving change in public health
    • Finding a niche in research
    • Managing arthritis from a position of strength
    • On a mission to prevent the preventables
    • Young leader looks forward to the future
    • Activist builds on nursing’s privilege and potential
    • Couple find their place in a home away from home
    • A powerful advocate for medical-surgical nursing
    • Mixing nursing and politics for the good of our health
  • On the Job
    • Reaching out to people who hoard
    • Moulding the next generation of researchers
    • Mental health nursing in Afghanistan
    • MSF puts skills and experience to use around the world
    • Bringing health care to where it’s needed
    • A healthy start for new Canadians
  • Perspectives
    • A rich resource on the history of medicare
    • A deeper look into opinions on health-care issues
    • CASN paper a call for action
    • Physicians’ Rx for health-care reform
    • CFNU report does the math on health-system sustainability
    • Nursing Care Partnership program: project summaries
    • Qmentum gains momentum
    • Anesthesia diploma a first for NPs
    • Nursing Care Partnership program: project summaries
    • McGill’s nurse practitioner programs get a boost
    • Paying tribute to RNs who have died in the line of duty
    • Nova Scotia nurses celebrate proud history
    • Nursing Care Partnership program: project summaries
    • Medical marijuana for pain: an emerging field
    • Red tape holds up wound-healing wonders
    • Nursing Care Partnership program: project summaries
    • Nursing Care Partnership program: project summaries
    • Where the rubber meets the road
    • CARNA campaign promotes the value of RNs
    • Nursing Care Partnership program: project summaries
    • Torchbearers spread the Olympic spirit
    • IDF and Canadian diabetes guidelines in step
    • Nursing leaders among Canada’s most powerful women
    • Development, diplomacy and eliminating health disparities
    • Chronic disease by the numbers
    • Promoting your voice and vision with Canadian Nurse
    • Aboriginal students awarded prestigious scholarships
    • SHN teams report success
    • Good health care starts with good communication
    • Assessing our impact over half a century
    • Voices for the north
    • From gift to the community to gift to the world
    • Nursing pioneer honoured
    • In conversation with David Benton
    • Disappointing progress on pharmacare program
    • Making it easier to apologize
    • Checklist improves surgical safety
    • Study quantifies economic value of nursing
    • A fresh take on an old idea
    • World failing to live up to promise of MDGs
  • Promising Practices
    • The Women’s Healthy Heart Clinic
    • Off-label prescribing of the nicotine patch for psychiatric patients
    • Becoming a facilitator: Tips for the uninitiated
    • Practicum sheds new light on gerontology placements
    • Program helps in early identification and treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia
    • Clinical Pathways: The Ottawa Hospital Experience
    • Better access to health care through system navigation
    • Improving patient care in orthopaedic oncology
    • New technology enhances expertise of vascular access team
    • A shared staffing model for two critical care environments
    • Evaluating nursing staff mix decisions in long-term care
    • Using multiple mini-interviews to assess nursing school applicant
  • Reflection
    • Forty-five years in mental health
    • Claire’s story
    • Preparing students for the world
    • Lessons from family caregivers
    • Knowledge and advocacy yield sweet results
    • The importance of family-centred care in the NICU
  • The Last Word
    • From witness to social justice advocate
    • A time for unity and a strong voice
    • Awareness campaigns do make a difference
    • Beyond the Band-Aids: what is “good” international aid?
    • Has our diversity become a stumbling block?
    • Nursing research wants its due
    • Wounded by sodium levels: where the rub is
    • A catastrophe in health care
    • Should influenza vaccination be mandatory?
    • Can We Swing the Pendulum Back to Centre?
    • Getting on with the job of supporting research
    • Celebrate your knowledge and skill this National Nursing Week
    • Treatment and harm reduction professionals need to make peace
    • Real help for those who have been morally wounded
    • New grads have left me shaken...and stirred!
    • The votes are in, and there’s lots of work to do
  • Research in Practice
    • Opening new doors
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