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Professional Outreach
Canadian Nurses Association: Environmental Health Reference Group
Chronic Disease Management: Abdominal Obesity
Complimentary Therapies: Networking
International presentation on leading change
Hilda Swirsky, a clinical nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, visited China with colleagues Charles Anyinam, Cindy McNairn, Nancy Brookes and Celia Li to talk about how nurses can use their excellent assessment and communication skills to promote environmental health.
Toronto Star: Letter to the Editor
May 31, 2008
Re: Quality should be job one in home-care competition
I am surprised to see this version of what happened to the Victorian Order of Nurses-Hamilton Branch and Saint Joseph's Home Care co-authored by Elinor Caplan. The excellent Caplan report that Caplan draws our attention to clearly identified stumbling blocks in home care bidding that must still be resolved. These include a current home care system that is not standardized enough to collect and communicate vital and critical information required to skillfully assess quality in order to provide superb patient-centred home care.
The Caplan report accurately pointed out that there is a gap in the available research essential when setting benchmarks that identify best practices. The report drew our attention to the inconsistencies and duplications in home care bidding practices and restraints on innovation, quality and access. With these impediments still not addressed in home care, I would like to know the criteria used to have VON and Saint Joseph's Home Care pass/fail the quality test.
Hilda Swirsky, RN, Toronto
