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RPNAO Executive Director Dianne Martin nominated for Premier’s Award

Posted: June 18th, 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 17th, 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 31st, 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 31st, 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...

Lakeridge Health celebrates awards during nursing week

Posted: May 17th, 2010

DURHAM -- Lakeridge Health celebrated nursing week with a variety of awards from different health organizations. Entire article

RPNAO announces 2010 recipient of RPN Award of Excellence

Posted: May 14th, 2010

This prestigious award recognizes a Registered Practical Nurse who has contributed in a significant way to RPNAO and whose efforts have helped to enhance nursing practices in Ontario.

Winners of RPNAO ‘Excellence in Journalism Award’ announced

Posted: May 12th, 2010

MISSISSAUGA, May 12 – The Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO) has announced the winners of its Excellence in Journalism Award. This is the first year RPNAO has given the award, which recognizes compelling, well-constructed human interest stories that shine the spotlight on Ontario’s nurses and the important work they do. Full Story

RPNAO recognizes Lakeridge Health as 2010 Employer of Excellence

Posted: May 12th, 2010

MISSISSAUGA, May 12 – Lakeridge Health has been named the 2010 Employer of Excellence by the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO). Full story

RPNAO announces recipient of prestigious Honourary Lifetime Membership Award

Posted: May 12th, 2010

MISSISSAUGA, May 12 – The Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO) is pleased to announce the recipient of its Honourary Lifetime Membership Award. This prestigious award, which has only been presented 10 times in the organization’s 52-year history, recognizes individuals with a longstanding track record of achievement and dedication to practical nursing in Ontario. Full story

Nurses launch public awareness campaign to promote the profession

Posted: May 11th, 2010

TORONTO, May 10 /CNW/ - Ontario nurses are promoting the profession in a public awareness campaign to draw more people into nursing.