Health-Care Workers

Health PEI has been unable to approve Kings County Memorial and Souris Hospital nurses’ vacations by an agreed deadline. HPEI’s Human Resources Department is searching for five travel nurses to cover 4.8 full-time…

By David Chandross, Toronto Metropolitan University and Raquel Meyer, University of Toronto A game world is a fantasy universe based on a story and a theme. In learning contexts, such…

Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) in Ontario continue to face significant challenges due to ongoing staffing shortages, according to a new survey by the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (WeRPN).…

Nurses in the majority of long-term care homes in Ontario are set to get what their union is calling the most significant wage increase in more than 30 years. An…

Registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals working in Ontario’s nursing homes are set to receive an 11.5% salary increase over the next two years. This arbitration decision, announced by the…

Ontario will need 33,200 more nurses and 50,853 more personal support workers by 2032, the government projects — figures it tried to keep secret but were obtained by The Canadian…

By Lisa McKendrick Calder, MacEwan University; Leanne Topola, MacEwan University, and Tanya Heuver, MacEwan University If you worry that there are not enough health-care providers to meet health needs, you…

Saskatchewan has announced additional incentives as part of its ongoing Health Human Resources (HHR) Action Plan aimed at recruiting, training, and retaining healthcare professionals in the province. The plan, which…

A medical clinic in British Columbia engaged in prohibited action against a worker after it fired her for making a workplace-safety related complaint, the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT) has…