• Nursing Students Raise the Alarm on the Future of the Profession

    Nursing Students Raise the Alarm on the Future of the Profession

    Financial strains on health care, the mass exodus of retiring nurses and a high attrition rates of nursing graduates will continue to have serious implications on our health care system. As nursing students and future registered nurses (RNs),…

  • Nurses and Shiftwork: Sleep Well to Be Well

    Nurses and Shiftwork: Sleep Well to Be Well

    It’s estimated that most people spend one-third of their lives sleeping, but until recently, the links between sleep and health were not well understood.

  • Advocacy and Unity in Action

    Advocacy and Unity in Action

    May 12, 2014 was a memorable day for nursing in British Columbia. For the first time in history, a group of 20 nurses travelled to the Legislature to launch nursing week.

  • Nursing Stereotypes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Nursing Stereotypes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Every profession is dissatisfied with its portrayal in the media – because it’s difficult to show the intricacies of a multifaceted and complex profession in a cursory manner such as television. 

  • Nursing Online for End-of-Life Care?

    Nursing Online for End-of-Life Care?

    When I started nursing over thirty years ago, I never would have thought I would be nursing online, but here I am – a palliative care clinical nurse specialist with Canadian Virtual Hospice. Every day…