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"Women whose breast cancer is found by mammogram may have a 53% better survival rate than those whose cancer is discovered another way ..." Just the Facts. Healthcare Quarterly, 9(1) 2006: 127-128
Canadians Turn to Nursing Organizations to Obtain Trustworthy Healthcare Information. From the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions and Ipsos Reid.
CIHI survey: priority areas for wait time reduction: what we know and what we don't know.
Can nurse and staff scheduling tightening up the ship? The hit report from KLAS.
Dr. John Evans named the winner of the 2007 Henry G. Friesen international prize in health research.
MEDEC (medical equipment) industry code of conduct.
Richard Alvarez named leading plenary speaker for ISQua leaders Boston. Sept. 30, 2007
Urban Health: Examining the evidence: physical activity, health, transportation, and land use.
Public Health: Coordination among levels of governments is almost non-existent.
Did You Know?
Of the $21 billion spent on prescribed drugs in Canada in 2006, 46% was financed by the public sector, and 36% was funded by private insurers. The remaining $3.9 billion was paid directly out-of-pocket by Canadian households. CIHI.ca
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Healthcare Quarterly
Access to Non-Funded Health Services (The Legal Implications)
Rino A. Stradiotto
HealthcarePapers
The Role of Safety and Quality Councils in Improving the Quality of Healthcare: An Australian Perspective
Bruce Barraclough
Nursing Leadership
Walking in the Shadows of Giants
Mike Villeneuve
Electronic Healthcare
Recognizing the Importance of Proactive Reporting at a Large Urban Teaching Hospital
Hannah Louie and Anita Tepfers
Healthcare Policy
Shopping for High-Technology Treatment in Another Province
Giselle Revah, Chaim Bell
World Health and Population
The Relationship of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence to Sexual-Risk Behaviour among Refugee Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Johannes John-Langba
Today’s featured Podcast: Leading Change across Two Sites: Introduction of a New Documentation System
(Read it here.)
Strong nursing leadership, in conjunction with a transformational change approach, leads to the
successful implementation of a new documentation system
Listen here. Running time: 15.46 minutes
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Question: What can the decision-makers do to recognize and take advantage of all the opportunities that already exist within the healthcare system to advance the wait times agenda so not to impede long-term, sustainable success?
Response: Wait times and the wait times agenda are on the Canadian schedule. Although most Canadians support our healthcare system, they are concerned about access. Resolving the wait times agenda might help increase Canadian confidence in the system's ability to provide timely access to care. While the paper by Trypuc, MacLeod and Hudson demonstrates…more here.
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Our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs: One hundred and fifty Chiefs and aspiring chiefs heard Matt Anderson as interviewer in the second of a series of discussions with Richard Alvarez. We heard about IT’s last frontier – healthcare; Infoway’s new strategic plan – soon to be out; Infoway’s criteria for future spending; consumerism – coming on like a tsunami; the committed role of employers and patient portals; Google’s drive to serving the health sector – as only Google can; regional EMRs; Infoway’s strategy for better uptake by physicians and the importance of demonstrations of technology that works. Stay tuned – the next interviews will be in Montreal and one of Alberta’s academic health sciences centres.
The June 2007, Evidence-based nursing workshop Download PDF will be held at McMaster University in Hamilton.
June 11-12, 2007: Toronto, ON. The National Healthcare Leadership Conference presented by Canadian College of Health Service Executives and the Canadian Healthcare Association. The theme of the conference is Innovation in Health Services: From Local Leadership to National Performance. For details click here.
June 12-13, 2007: Montreal, QC. Safe and Sound — Optimizing Prescribing Behaviours. The Health Council of Canada holds a two day conference to assemble and encourage stakeholders in the pharmaceutical sector to promote the aims and enable the implementation of a National Pharmaceuticals Strategy (NPS). For details click here.
June 12-14, 2007: Toronto, ON. Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference. Join Canada’s top health services and policy researches at the annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference. This year it is being held June 12-14 in Toronto and is linked with the National Health Care Leadership Conference. Plenary speakers include: Roy Romanow, Tom Noseworthy, Bob Evans, Terry Sullivan and Adalsteinn Brown. Over 100 sessions on groundbreaking research. For details click here.
June 14, 2007: Toronto, ON. Balanced Collaborative Government. Learn about best practices for collaborative governance in integrated health care delivery systems. Find out how you can create a culture for collaboration in your organization by attending the Institute of Public Administration of Canada's conference on Balanced Collaborative Governance. For details click here.
July 4-6, 2007: London. UK. Primary Care Research for Better Health: Delivering International Excellence. The 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care. The programme will include keynote presentations, parallel sessions, workshops and posters that address current key issues in primary care research and education. For details click here.
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Vice-President, Prevention and Integrated Screening Programs - Cancer Care Ontario
Patient Relations Coordinator - Rouge Valley Health System, ON
Director of Mental Health Program and Chaplaincy - Rouge Valley Health System, ON
Manager, Planning - MOHLTC, Toronto, ON
VP, Finance & Clinical Support Services - York Central Hospital, ON
Murray Koffler Chair in Pharmacy Management - Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, UofT, Toronto, ON
Senior Analyst, Policy & Planning - Vancouver, BC
Performance and Contract Management Consultant - HNHB LHIN, Grimsby, ON
Planning and Integration Consultant- HNHB LHIN, Grimsby, ON
Marketing, Business Development - Philips Medical Systems, Markham, ON
General Duty Nurses - Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Lindsay, ON
Director, Bridgepoint Academy, Bridgepoint Health, Toronto, ON
Director of Nursing Practice - University Health Network, Toronto, ON
Student Nurse Burseries - Northwest Territories Health and Social Services
Specialty Nursing Education and Career Information
Career Opportunities at Courtyard Group
Career Opportunities at Northern Lights Health Region
Career Opportunities in the Northwest Territories
Career Opportunities at Hamilton Health Sciences
Career Opportunities at Capital Health Edmonton
Career Opportunities at Vancouver Coastal Health
Healthcare Quarterly Careers (PDF)
Nursing Leadership Careers (PDF)
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