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The next joint NENA and AIIUQ conference will be held at the Hilton HOtel- Lac Leamy in Gatineau (QC) from June 7-9th and registration in now open! Register at: aiiuq.qc.ca/congres-2024-i…

School nurses could be forced to cover Lakeshore Hospital ER montreal.ctvnews.ca/school-nurses-…

Rural hospitals brace for summer staff shortages that could hurt ERs lfpress.com/news/local-new… via @lfpress

Anyone who's recently been to an emergency dept in Ontario recently knows things aren't exactly going well. It's remarkable that the gov't is cutting physician hours (not how much we get paid) but rather how many MDs we can staff in many EDs around ON. TL/DR - bad idea. 1/

Why do I hate hearing “the patient was bucking the vent”? Mainly because it’s usually followed by “so we increased sedation.” ✅ Read on to learn what to say & do instead to better help your patient 🧵 #MedTwitter #NurseTwitter #MedEd

Canadian Journal of Emergency Nursing · Vol. 45, No. 3, Fall 2022 Inpatient supervised consumption services: A nursing perspective . Article available here: cjen.ca/index.php/cjen…

I woke up this morning and almost spit out my coffee... I was shocked that Nadia Surani, @ONThealth official had the audacity to put these thoughts in a formal request...and was actually serious.. My wife and my dad are both primary care docs. A 🧵 cbc.ca/news/canada/to… 1/

A few reflections as I look around a dysfunctional healthcare system. I see firsthand every day how terrible the situation is yet one of the unfortunate features of staffing a system with such resilient healthcare workers...is that it will never truly "collapse"... 🧵

I reject the precept that "there are no ER nurses". There are, they didn't die, they weren't lifted up and out in an end of times rapture, they were not sucked int a cosmic black hole - they are elsewhere in the system - waiting for a chance/change to get back to their vocation.

Happy Emergency Nurses Week from ENA President @Jenn_Schmitz_34! #ENWeek

First we had an emergency room. As we provided more and more services, we grew into departments with dozens of beds. Now all our beds are filled with inpatients and we once again have a single emergency room - one that we used to call the waiting room.

Proud to have been one of the authors of this resolution and that it was approved with Over 91% support. @enaorg #ENAGA #ENA22

Some of my favourite International @ENAorg members from 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧 #EN22

@ENAorg @alisondayrn How much coffee do 700 Emergency nurses drink in a half day??!!

@alisondayrn Happy you’re here! Enjoy the ☕️☕️

Let me paint a picture of #peds #emergency care for you. Let's say your 3 year old bonks his head on the coffee table right before dinner. Nothing horrible, but needs stitches. You take him to urgent care. They tell you that they can't fix it, and you need to go to the ER. 1/

What are you doing to prepare for @ENAorg #EN22 conference? I have started reading books by the opening and closing keynote speakers @michellepoler and @iworkmeaningful

Looking forward to @ENAorg conference in Denver in a few days. Who else is going to #EN22?

Saw this in my feed a third time and couldn't ignore it again. A powerful read. Take a few minutes to follow this link. ‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

#NurseTwitter : While assisting with a procedural sedation (# dislocation left ankle) the EP hands you a syringe with a blank Med Added label and says “this is 4 mg of ondansetron”. You get the feeling that there is some urgency to complete this procedure. What is your response?