Better Health Behind Bars Rns Advocate for a Forgotten Population
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MAY/JUNE 2016 MAY/JUNE JOURNAL BETTER HEALTH BEHIND BARS RNs advocate for a forgotten population. AGM 2016 • Nurses and PTSD • Nursing Week 2016 BILINGUAL ONLINE ONTARIO BREASTFEEDING SERVICES Breastfeeding mothers benefit from peer support. Sometimes they need help and support from professionals and experts as well. This directory has it all. You can now give your patients this link: Bilingual Online Ontario Breastfeeding Services directory www.ontariobreastfeeds.ca To order postcards for your office, call 1 (800) 397-9567 or go to www.beststart.org/resources/ breastfeeding RÉPERTOIRE EN LIGNE BILINGUE DES SERVICES D’ALLAITEMENT DE L’ONTARIO Les mères allaitantes bénéficient du soutien mutuel d’allaitement. Parfois, elles ont aussi besoin d’aide et de soutien de professionnels et d’experts. Ce répertoire vous donne accès à une mine d’information. 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Compiled By Kimberley Kearsey 24 A path to healing Job-related PtsD is a reality for RNs, yet new legislation does not offer support for those diagnosed with the illness. By Kimberley Kearsey the LiNeUP 30 24 4 Editor’s NOTE 5 President’s View 6 CEO DISPATCH 7 NURSING NOTES 8 NURSING IN THE NEWS 20 RN PROFILE 27 pOLICY AT WORK 30 IN THE END COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: JEFF KIRK REGISTERED NURSE JOURNAL 3 The journal of the REGISTERED NURSES’ eDitOR’s NOte KiMbeRLey KeARsey ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO (RNAO) 158 Pearl Street Toronto ON, M5H 1L3 Phone: 416-599-1925 Toll-Free: 1-800-268-7199 Fax: 416-599-1926 Website: RNAO.ca Email: [email protected] Letters to the editor: [email protected] EDITORIAL STAFF Marion Zych, Publisher Kimberley Kearsey, Managing Editor Finding strength in struggle Daniel Punch, Writer Victoria Alarcon, Editorial Assistant EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Steve Buist, Una Ferguson, Rebecca Harbridge, Paula Manuel ART DIRECTION & DESIGN howing vulnerability iS difficult Fresh Art & Design Inc. 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Printed with vegetable-based inks on recycled paper (50 per cent recycled and you will meet two nurses who speaking out for marginalized 20 per cent post-consumer fibre) on acid-free paper. open up about their post populations. but we need to Registered Nurse Journal is published six times a traumatic stress disorder acknowledge that RNs can find year by RNAO. The views or opinions expressed in the editorials, articles or advertisements are those (PtsD) (page 24). Julie Prince themselves marginalized as of the authors/advertisers and do not necessarily and brenda Leonard have well. Dianne Roedding (page represent the policies of RNAO or the Editorial Advisory Committee. RNAO assumes no responsibility struggled with the condition, 20) can identify with the need or liability for damages arising from any error or and agree that sharing their to ask for help, and the value in omission or from the use of any information or advice contained in the Registered Nurse Journal experiences publicly isn’t easy, offering it. A self-identified including editorials, studies, reports, letters and but it’s important for their own lesbian, Roedding avoided advertisements. 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