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RNAO is the professional association representing RNs, NPs & nursing students in Ontario. Our mandate is speaking out for nursing and speaking out for health.
Joined June 2009
Premier @fordnation, urgently implement our 3 Mandatory Asks to fight #COVID19:. 1️⃣ #MandatoryVaccination for HCWs.2️⃣ #MandatoryVaccination for education staff.3️⃣ Mandatory #VaccinePassports for everyone. (Unless medical exemption). Our #ActionAlert:
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We are in the midst of a brutal third wave. Tell @fordnation we need public health measures that will save lives. Sign our #ActionAlert: @DorisGrinspun @CP24 @CBCToronto @CTVToronto @globalnews @CanadianPress.
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Our CEO @DorisGrinspun told @globalnews that she would likely support a government move to make #COVID19 vaccinations mandatory for nurses: “We’re talking about an insidious, mutating virus.” #onpoli. Watch @AbigailBimman’s story:
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RNAO calls for #COVID19 #VaccinePassports now!🚨💉. Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau & Premier @fordnation, help reopen Canada! Urgently enact vaccine passports while keeping in mind equity and individuals' security and privacy. Media release:
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You heard our CEO @dorisgrinspun on @CP24! . Every night at 7:30 p.m. grab your pots & pans, clap your hands, honk your horn, make NOISE at your doorstep to say #THANKYOU to the health-care workers!!🎉🔉👏📢. Share your video of you cheering with the hashtag #Cheer4HealthWorkers!
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RNAO has launched the #FullyVaccinated campaign to encourage everyone to receive both #COVID19Vaccine doses & is calling for #MandatoryVaccination for HCWs in contact w/ patients. Urgently:.1⃣Bring vaccines to workplaces.2⃣#2SickDays4Vaccination. Read:
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On Behalf of @RNAO:. President @MorganHoffarth and CEO Dr. @DorisGrinspun will attend an emergency meeting anyday and at anytime. @fordnation @AndreaHorwath @StevenDelDuca @MikeSchreiner. #WeAreAllinThisTogether .WE must meet urgently. #MandatoryVaccination #VaccinePassport.
Today I wrote to @fordnation asking to meet across party lines, and with leaders of various organizations in healthcare, education & the economy. The time is now to come together and agree on a vaccine certificate to stop the fourth wave and keep Ontario open. #onpoli
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Check the latest Blog from our CEO Dr. @DorisGrinspun which includes @RNAi statement on the damaging protests "Charges must be vigorously pursued against those who attack health workers, engage in acts of violence, or express hate," urges @RNAO @CP24
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To confront the dangerous triple threat of #COVID19, respiratory syncytial virus (#RSV) & #influenza currently putting children’s lives at risk, Ontario must mandate masks rather than merely recommend them. Media release: #MaskMandate #BringBackMasks
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RNAO is deeply disappointed with the Ont. gov't's reopening plan. Premier @fordnation is gambling the ability to control the spread of #COVID19 as we head into winter. We also need #MandatoryVaccination for all HCWs in all sectors & settings!. Statement:
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.@BogochIsaac says #HCWs must be fully vaccinated, full stop. Our CEO @DorisGrinspun calls on Premier @fordnation to #MandateVaccinations for HCWs: “It is our duty to do no harm to patients." #COVID19 #onpoli #cdnpoli. @CBCQueensPark's story:
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Our hearts are broken on a thousand pieces on the sadden passing of our friend, mentor, nursing leader Charlotte Noesgaard, who suffered a massive brain bleed. Charlotte was the most beautiful human being: kind, generous, feisty, and wise. #RIPCharlotte knowing you live in us💔
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Ontario Disability Support Program(#ODSP) rates have been frozen since 2018. Sign our #ActionAlert to call on Premier @fordnation to double #ODSP rates to ensure that no one in Ontario with a disability is forced to live in poverty. #DoubleODSP.
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RNAO is deeply disappointed by Premier .@fordnation's decision to not move forward with implementing #MandatoryVaccination for all HCWs. This decision is a disgrace & shows a lack of courage to do what’s right for Ontario’s patients & workers!. Release:
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Watch @DorisGrinspun's int'v with @CBCNews @HannahThibedeau. Strong words for gov't's decision not report #COVID19 + cases in schools. If we don't manage this pandemic, "we will end up with kids that will not have access to pediatric beds." .@fordnation.
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#URGENT: Join our call to Premier @Fordnation for #MandatoryVaccination for all health-care workers!🚨. The time is now for Ontario to show leadership in this critical issue & help prevent a fourth #COVID19 wave. @celliottability. Sign our #ActionAlert:
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To reopen schools safely & ease on a 4th wave, 17 months into #COVID19, RNAO's advice remains: . 1️⃣ Improved ventilation .2️⃣ Masking indoors for all .3️⃣ Smaller class sizes .New: #MandatoryVaccination for teachers. Read our CEO @DorisGrinspun's blog post:
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Premier @fordnation, politicians agree that #Bill124 must be repealed!. Mayor @patrickbrownont passed a motion for the Brampton City Council to call on the Ont. gov't to immediately #RepealBill124 as a first step to ending the #NursingCrisis & preventing a health system collapse.
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Premier @fordnation, Ontario's health system is on the verge of a total collapse! 🚨. Two actions are required IMMEDIATELY:. ➡️Move Ontario back to Step One of Ontario’s Roadmap to Reopen.➡️#RepealBill124 & top up compensation for nurses . Our open letter:
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This Thursday, RNAO & 19 health organizations ask the public to remember those who've died from #COVID19 & reflect on the hope that lies ahead by lighting a candle & sharing tributes on social media with #Candle4COVID & #TogetherWeCanDoIt. Media advisory:
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RNAO is pleased with @JustinTrudeau's $2B for #PPE. Securing Ont's 9M SxMasks/week + other essential PPE is urgent NOW! We must prepare for #WorstCaseScenario. @fordnation @celliottability @HeAngus @cafreeland @PattyHajdu @CPHO_Canada @DorisGrinspun
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"We will be pushing for #COVIDZero again. if not, we'll be in a fourth and a fifth #COVID19 wave. There is no magic, but we know what to do," our CEO @DorisGrinspun says.
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Premier @fordnation, we call on you to act NOW to ensure a safe reopening of Ontario schools!. Every student & teacher must be protected from #COVID19. #onpoli . URGENT! Everyone, add your voice to our #ActionAlert:
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RNAO decries in the strongest possible terms the latest move by the @fordnation government to expand the scope of for-profit facilities in Ontario’s health-care system. #onpoli. Read our media release: @DorisGrinspun @ClaudetteHollow @MorganHoffarth
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Premier @fordnation, we're doing well! Now is not the time to loosen restrictions. Instead, move with #MandatoryVaccination for all health-care & education workers, vaccination for children & establish #SafeZones.⤵️@DorisGrinspun . Our #ActionAlert:
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RNAO stands with education workers, decries use of notwithstanding clause. #ontedsolidarity.#onpoli.#Cdnpoli. Read our statement: @DorisGrinspun @ClaudetteHollow @MorganHoffarth
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"99% of nurses do not want to work next to a nurse that is not #FullyVaccinated.”. Our CEO @DorisGrinspun says it would be surprising if hospitals relaxed #MandatoryVaccination policies due to the increased risk to patients. #onpoli. @robferguson1's story:
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This #VictoriaDay, we’re thinking of the nurses and other health workers who continue to work day in and day out to defeat #COVID19. The best way to show your gratitude for frontline workers is to follow public health measures and #StaySafe. #TogetherWeCanDoIt @DorisGrinspun
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RNAO is proud to announce that our CEO @DorisGrinspun is being honoured with a top international award!. Congratulations, Dr. Grinspun, for being awarded the 2021 Nell J. Watts Lifetime Achievement in Nursing Award by @SigmaNursing. Release: @KennethDion
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RNAO CEO @DorisGrinspun speaks with @CityNewsTO and @globalnews about why Premier @fordnation MUST #RepealBill124 immediately! . “We are not heroes, we are health-care professionals and we deserve respect.” . @NurseWithSign @celliottability
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In @CTVNews, our CEO @DorisGrinspun says Premier @fordnation should've waited 3 more weeks to open Ont to avoid a third #COVID19 wave. "The health professionals (are) exhausted. We cannot continue to simply pile up on them.". Read @HeatherSenoran's story:
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RNAO & @OntariosDoctors condemn anti-vaccine protests outside hospitals. We are calling for #SafeZones around hospitals & other health settings where patients seek the care they need & where HCWs work. #COVID19 #onpoli. Read our media statement:
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Premier @fordnation MUST extend #MandatoryVaccination to all health-care and education workers and establish #SafeZones NOW!. We need to win and put an end to this deadly fight with #COVID19 and its variants. #onpoli . Add your voice to our #ActionAlert:
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🚨ONTARIANS: #Bill23 will remove 7,400 acres of #Greenbelt land, even though 88,000 acres of land are available for housing construction in the #GTHA. Sign & share our #ActionAlert to call on the Premier @fordnation to keep his #HandsOffTheGreenbelt:
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Thanks to all the nurses & people from the public that helped this happen: Today, as we celebrate the 1st day of #NursingWeek, nurses have been listened to. If that were to happen always, Ont's health system would be stronger. @fordnation @celliottability
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Premier @fordnation, there is an IMMEDIATE need for nurses to be fully vaccinated against #COVID19. Nurses want more than words of gratitude. They want to know that their lives matter to Ontario and to our government. #onpoli #NursingWeek. Media release:
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“It quite frankly infuriates me.". In @ipoliticsca, our CEO @DorisGrinspun says Premier @fordnation's decision to not implement #MandatoryVaccination for all HCWs is a disappointment as most hospital CEOS are in favour. Read @CharliePinkerto's article:
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How do you prevent the spread of COVID-19 in LTC? You ensure every home has a nurse specializing in infection prevention & control. And, to combat a 2nd wave. @fordnation @celliottability @DrFullertonMPP @DorisGrinspun @angelacooperbra @MorganHoffarth.
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Our CEO Dr @DorisGrinspun "his decisions appeared to have been politically motivated. Either he didn't have the foresight to use the precautionary principle. throughout the pandemic or the character to say to the premier, this is the way it needs to be.".
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"This is not about whether you like [supervised injections services or overdose prevention sites] or not, it's about saving lives," said RNAO CEO Doris Grinspun. #nurses #savinglives
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Just moments ago on @CP24 CEO @DorisGrinspun said staffing issues in Ont hospitals can be solved by repealing Bill 124 & measures to retain RNs who are needed to care for Ontarians. "August will be worse if we don't act." @fordnation
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Join us in urging Premier @fordnation to start & accelerate Phase 2 of the roll-out by putting the #COVID19Vaccine into the hands of the thousands of nurses, physicians & pharmacists working in community care across Ontario. #onpoli. Sign our #ActionAlert:
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Premier @fordnation, #RepealBill124 for the sake of our nurses!. “Nurses are being begged, please stick around, give us one more shift, but if you don’t top up their compensation, they’ll leave,” says our CEO @DorisGrinspun. #onpoli. Read @spaikin's story:
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On @CBCToronto, our CEO @DorisGrinspun says #MandatoryVaccination for all HCWs won't further the nursing shortage crisis: "What the premier is hiding here is the effect of #Bill124. That is why HCWs are leaving the province.". Watch w/ @MichaelSerapio:
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Premier @fordnation, Min. @celliottability & @lambton_ph, we demand FULL VACCINATION - TWO DOSES - for ALL nurses working with #COVID19 patients in Ont's EDs, critical care & ICU. Not doing so is placing them at risk. @DorisGrinspun on @CHOKsarnia: 1/2.
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Premier @fordnation, your gov't didn’t create the pandemic – a virus did. Yet, you did establish #Bill124 & it is the straw that broke the camel’s back!. This bill is a powerful sign of disrespect & disdain toward the nursing profession. #RepealBill124 TODAY, premier.
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Important read: RNAO calls Ont gov't decision to appeal court ruling on Bill 124 shameful. The decision will only exacerbate an already full-blown nursing crisis. @DorisGrinspun @ClaudetteHollow @morganhoff
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Premier @fordnation is about to close a program that provides specialized mental health treatment for kids in the youth justice system. Tell the premier not to close the Kinark Child & Family Services Program at Syl Apps Youth Centre!. Sign #ActionAlert:
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On Oct. 21, @DorisGrinspun is voting for a national chief nursing officer. The role is important to influence healthy public policy in Canada. Learn more about our platform here: #nursesvote @angelacooperbra @MorganHoffarth
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Nurses across the province are standing together to call on Premier @fordnation to immediately #RepealBill124!. RNAO alongside nurses & other public sector workers will join @Nursewithsign in Toronto on Nov. 14 to rally against #Bill124. Media advisory:
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RNAO says the Ont gov't chooses ideology over science in its response to a rapidly escalating & deadly third wave. Read our media release: #onpoli #COVID19 @bruce_arthur @CP24 @LizBraunSun @jessiecatherine @Travisdhanraj.
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Premier @fordnation, #Bill124 caps compensation increases for a range of public sector workers, including nurses, at just one per cent. #RepealBill124. This means nurses’ incomes are not keeping up with the cost of living!. EVERYONE, sign our #ActionAlert:
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RNAO CEO @DorisGrinspun says only Ont has #Bill124 & burnt-out nurses are leaving: "The competition is brutal. either we will have the nurses here or they'll go somewhere else." #NursingCrisis. Premier @fordnation, #RepealBill124. Read & listen on @WBFO:
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RNAO is issuing a call to all Ontario MPPs: Tell Premier @fordnation you #StandWithNurses and want #Bill124 to be repealed. Our letter asks MPPs to sign a pledge calling for the bill’s immediate repeal. #onpoli #RepealBill124. Media release:
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"A week has passed since a horrific verdict was handed to Premier @fordnation by the government’s science table," our CEO @DorisGrinspun says in a letter to @TorontoStar. "Nurses demand swift action and we demand it now."#onpoli @celliottability. Read it:
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.@nationalpost, nurses are not sex objects. They are knowledgeable professionals, and at this time, a newspaper that considers itself "respectable" needs to portray nurses for who they are. Please remove your Halloween guide immediately! @accessd . Nurses & others, RT THIS!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our CEO @DorisGrinspun from everyone at RNAO! 🥳🎉👏. You are a leader. You are fearless. You inspire us all. Thank you for your relentless advocacy.
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Ontario government's #Bill23 will remove environmental standards & weaken tenant protections. Sign our #ActionAlert to call on Premier @fordnation to keep #HandsOffTheGreenbelt: Join us in this fight for our health & the environment now.
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"We are not heroes, we are health-care professionals and we deserve respect," says our CEO @DorisGrinspun. #StandingWithNurses. There are 21 days left in our 30-day call to Premier @fordnation to #RepealBill124! The Ontario government must act NOW. This is long overdue. #Bill124
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BREAKING NEWS: RNAO @fordnation @celliottability immediately:. 1. Full province-wide #lockdown as in wave 1 + #Curfew like Quebec . 2. NO reopening of schools till end of January and then reassess. 3. More support for vulnerable populations . 4. 24x7 #LTC #vaccination . #onpoli
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RNAO's letter to Premier @fordnation & Min. @celliottability re: #COVID19Vaccine rollout stresses:.-community rollout.-prioritizing seniors & vulnerable pop'ns.-not loosening PH measures until 3 weeks post-schools reopening to prevent a 3rd wave. Read it:
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The lack of respect implied in #Bill124 is triggering many nurses to leave the profession and yet Premier @fordnation has yet to respond to our call to #RepealBill124! #onpoli. He is not #StandingWithNurses. We demand ACTION. There are now 19 days left in our 30-day countdown.
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@DorisGrinspun @CBCAlerts @CBCQueensPark @CBCLorenda @ColinDMello @globalnewsto @fordnation @celliottability @robferguson1 @DrNancyOlivieri @birgitomo @GrittyNurse @DrFullertonMPP @MoiraWelsh @picardonhealth @NathanStall @DrSamirSinha @AdvantAgeOnt Thank you Premier @fordnation for listening to RNAO and opening outside visits for #LTC residents. This weekend, we'll see more smiles on residents' faces as they smell the gardens and resume some of life's simple pleasures. @l_stone @jessiecatherine @picardonhealth #onpoli
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Prem. @fordnation, hospitals are struggling to handle the rise of #Omicron cases and the loss of RNs due to #Bill124. "Ontarians are piling up in emergency departments," says our CEO @DorisGrinspun on @CTVKitchener. #RepealBill124. Watch w/@RVenezaCTV:
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In a letter to the editor in @globeandmail, RNAO CEO @DorisGrinspun says "supervised consumption sites are not “drug dens” as Mr. Poilievre has callously stated. They offer evidence-based gateways to treatment and recovery. They provide basic primary care, mental-health &
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A reporter asked @DorisGrinspun about the nurses waiting to help during #COVID19. Her response: “Now is the time! We have 6000 RNs in critical care + general waiting on standby to respond to the call.”
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If you live in the Ottawa area, watch @ctvottawa news at 6 pm & hear @DorisGrinspun explain why mandatory vaccination for all HCWs is needed & not to blame for staffing shortfalls. Bill 124 is. @fordnation @celliottability @RodPhillips01 #onpoli
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"If we're not careful, people waiting for surgeries & procedures will again be postponed because we don’t have enough human resources in the system,” says CEO @DorisGrinspun about rising #COVID19 cases & hospitalizations. @siomoCTV's story (@CTVToronto):
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We continue to call on Premier @fordnation to act swiftly to suffocate community spread of #COVID19. #onpoli. 🚨What's needed:.-#PaidSickLeave.-Moratorium on evictions.-Self-isolation accommodation. Join our call. Sign & share our #ActionAlert now:
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A bed without a nurse is just a bed. Nurses know this. Patients know this. We all know this. #Feb3rd. @ontarionurses @fordnation @celliottability @DorisGrinspun
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This @globeandmail Op-Ed by CEO @DorisGrinspun & Brenda Stade reflects on the current state of the nursing profession and how the only way to restore hope for nurses is to #RepealBill124. @fordnation @celliottability @RodPhillips01 @DorisGrinspun.
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On @CTVToronto, our CEO @DorisGrinspun says anti-vaccine protesters should protest at Queen's Park and Parliament Hill instead of health-care facilities: "I am quite concerned that next will be our schools." #SafeZones #onpoli. Watch @kateygoalie's story:
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There are 28 days left in our call to Premier @fordnation to #RepealBill124!. #Bill124 is not only a matter of compensation; it is also a symbol of disrespect. This bill MUST be repealed to keep nurses in Ontario!. EVERYONE, sign & share our #ActionAlert:
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Right now, nurses in Ont don't have enough protection against COVID-19. Many haven't had their 2nd dose of the vaccine even though they're caring for very ill patients. Watch RNAO CEO @dorisgrinspun explain why this has to change. Live on @CP24 Sunday morning at 11:30 a.m.
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Our CEO @DorisGrinspun tells @cbcradio that RNAO is calling for an @OntarioAuditor investigation on the increasing use of agency nursing. "We are NOT at all faulting nurses for going to agencies & looking for better pay because of #Bill124, it's not about the nurses. ". 🧵1/3.
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In @globalnews, our CEO @DorisGrinspun sends a message to the NICU nurse who travelled to D.C.: .“We need nurses in the profession & we need nurses to work based on evidence, based on compassion, not based on conspiracy theories.". @andrewjwgraham's story:
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Our CEO @DorisGrinspun explains why Ont's chief medical of officer should step down. A firmer hand is needed to steer the province through a possible second wave. @MorganHoffarth @fordnation @celliottability @angelacooperbra.
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Premier @fordnation, we know that several of your ministers support repealing #Bill124. We know the public is #StandingWithNurses. Yet, you continue to ignore our calls. Is it because we are a female-dominated profession? Nobody deserves Bill 124. #onpoli. #RepealBill124 now!
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On @CTVNews, @DorisGrinspun tells @JenniferB_ctv: "When they say staffing shortages to the media, please translate: in the case of ICUs & ERs, it's RN shortages & it's because RNs are exiting the province because of #Bill124." #NursingCrisis #RepealBill124.
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We urge all MPPs to #StandWithNurses by demanding Premier @fordnation #RepealBill124!. EVERYONE, tell your MPPs to sign our pledge to show their support for the nursing profession. Time is of the essence! #onpoli. View the MPPs who have signed thus far:
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"The decision by Premier @fordnation's gov't is a betrayal to nurses, to the profession & to the public, who are witnessing the crumbling of a health system that desperately needs more nurses," says RNAO CEO @DorisGrinspun #onpoli. @HRReporter's story:
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Provincial leadership is urgently needed to ensure a safe school reopening!. In @TorontoStar, our CEO @DorisGrinspun asks: "Does Premier @fordnation & our government have the courage & conviction to do what is needed?" #COVID19 #onted. Read the story:
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RNAO continues its push to get Windsor police to carry naloxone. Read the latest. @DorisGrinspun @angelacooperbra @MorganHoffarth.
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RNAO member & #RN Tyler Watt (@tylerwatt90) is one more voice advocating for nursing and health care at Queen's Park. Congrats on becoming the MPP for Nepean. #Onpoli. To all members, we need more nurses in the legislature. Read in @OttawaCitizen:
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Nurses: “We’re the constant throughout people’s lives, in times of health, sickness, birth, or death, & it’s because we value this responsibility that we advocate & push for healthy public policies,” says @DorisGrinspun #nursingweek.
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@RNAO's CEO @DorisGrinspun was officially inducted into the American Academy of Nursing as a 2018 fellow Sat evening. Dr. Grinspun (right) joins an esteemed group of nursing leaders recognized for excellence in research, practice, management, education, and policy. @AAN_Nursing
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There are 23 days left in our 30-day deadline calling on Premier @fordnation to #RepealBill124. #StandingWithNurses. The longer he delays, the more nurses we lose in Ontario. Premier, act now.#onpoli. @DorisGrinspun @celliottability @RodPhillips01 @MonteMcNaughton @CP24 @CBCNews
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RNAO member @saramfung speaks out on @CBCTheNational. "The nurses that have hung in day in and day out to where we are now in the 4th #COVID19 wave are true heroes & the only reward they get is an increased workload." #NursesVoicesMatter. Watch here:
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Our CEO @DorisGrinspun shares an urgent message:. “Put vaccination back where it belongs: in public health, primary care and in home care, NOT in hospitals.” . @fordnation @celliottability @DrFullertonMPP @ONThealth #COVID19 @AnnamiePaul
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Nursing Week is almost here! The nurses battling #COVID19 want to be fully vaccinated against the virus. CEO @DorisGrinspun says the gov't needs to demonstrate that their lives matter. WATCH @globalnews @ 6 & @GlobalNational @ 6:30 for her message to the gov't. Check TV listings.
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ACTION must be taken NOW to make hospitals safe from anti-vaccine protests to protect HCWs and patients!. In @TorontoStar, our CEO @DorisGrinspun says: “Any minute that we wait is a minute too late." #SafeZones #onpoli . Read @_jennamoon & @IvyMak_'s story:
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Scientists @DFisman & @NathanStall are crucial to the #COVID19 response. @DorisGrinspun: It's tragic that when we should be focused on suffocat(ing) this damn virus, we find time for personal attacks on people that've given time everyday to help. Read it:
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