nurses

I’ve only been a nurse for eight months. The chaos is killing me.

Jacelyn Wingerter is a Saskatchewan hospital nurse facing the impossible. “We have 35 beds in our department, and 100 patients needing treatment.”

A turn for the 'murse'

The enduring stereotype of the male nurse

The number of male nurses across Canada has doubled in 10 years

hygiene, bacterial infections, washing hands

Doctors aren’t washing their hands

New computer system detects unwashed hands

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Nursing Saskatchewan back to health

The premier of Saskatchewan, Brad Wall, was in to talk with Maclean’s this week. (The entire interview will be posted on our website tomorrow.) 

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Overworked nurses mess up patients’ meds: a nurse responds to StatsCan report

We hear a lot about Canada’s doctor shortage. But Canada’s also in the grip of a nursing shortage—and a new Statistics Canada study makes the impact of that clear.