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RPNAO Executive Director Dianne Martin nominated for Premier’s Award

Posted: June 18, 2010

RPNAO Executive Director Dianne Martin nominated for Premier’s Award

MISSISSAUGA, June 17 – The Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO) is pleased to announce that its Executive Director, Dianne Martin, has been nominated for the 2010 Premier’s Awards for Ontario College Graduates.

The Premier’s Awards for Ontario College Graduates were created in 1992 to recognize the important social and economic contributions the province’s graduates make to Ontario and throughout the world.

RPNAO RPN Survey Announcement

Posted: June 17, 2010

RPNAO RPN Survey Announcement
You are invited!
RPNAO has undertaken a surveying process and we need your valuable input! The RPNAO survey was emailed to members just last week, and we are inviting anyone who has been educated and worked as an RPN to complete it. You may have received a link which might have inadvertently been moved to your spam or junk email folder. Please look for this important RPNAO RPN Survey in your spam or junk folders – it’s not junk!
As an added bonus, just for completing the survey your name will be entered into a draw for a chance to win an i-Pod touch!
If you would like to be included in the survey but did not receive the email link, please email info@rpnao.org and we will send it out to you right away.

Let's embrace RPNs as part of the solution for stretched hospitals

Posted: May 31, 2010

Published in the Orillia Packet & Times, May 19, 2010.

Re: "Registered nurses in Ontario are 'endangered species'", letter to the editor, Sandra Tansley, May 11.

Sandra Tansley implies that registered practical nurses (RPNs) are "less skilled and less qualified workers" and that by replacing registered nurses (RNs) with RPNs, the "risk of complications and death rise by 7%." ...

RPNS, RNS can help deliver sustainable care

Posted: May 31, 2010

Published in the Chatham Daily News, May 28, 2010.

Media coverage of the nursing cuts at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) has made one thing clear: not enough people understand what a registered practical nurse (RPN) is, what they do, or the important roles they play in Ontario's health care system...