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An Evaluation of joint health and safety committees in Ontario: A summary

Joint Health and Safety Committees (JHSCs) in Ontario's Acute Healthcare Sector

This session describes a two-phased study designed to examine the role, resources, structure and functioning of JHSCs in Ontario hospitals. Public ...

Nurses celebrate 'passion for the profession'

18.05.12

Registered nurses at Health Sciences North have not lifted -- nor have they renewed -- their censure in principle of hospital management for quality of life issues they say are affecting 1,300 full-and part-time nurses.

Improvements have been made in addressing nurses' concerns, but there is still more work to do, says Ann Kennealy, president of Local 013 of the Ontario Nurses' Association. Because of that, the censure in principle remains in place.

A full censure would warn nurses and nursing students throughout Canada that Health Sciences North isn't a nurse-friendly institution.

Her local hasn't gone that far, but two years ago it decided to put hospital administrators on notice that nurses were serious about improving their work life.

Still, that isn't stopping Kennealy and members of her local from celebrating National Nurses Week -- which ends every year on the birthday of the mother of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.

For all the problems on the job, nursing is still the best profession in the world, says Kennealy.

Source: The Sudbury Star

Board studying use of blockers

18.05.12

MIDHURST -- A consultation process looking into the use of soft foam blocker shields used by education assistants (EAs) while they work with special needs students has been initiated by the Simcoe County District School Board.

The process, laid out at a special education advisory commit-t ee (SEAC) meeting Monday night, will include consultations with parents, community partners and experts in the special education community.

A motion to discontinue the use of blockers while the consultation process takes place was passed by committee members and will be voted on by trustees at a future board meeting.

But committee members still have many concerns surrounding the use of blocker shields.

During the meeting, SEAC vice-chairman James Hall forwarded more than 20 questions to superintendent Phyllis Hili and senior administrators that the committee would like answers to.

They included queries about what training was provided for the use of the blockers, the number of times they've been used, how their use is reported, how the schools chosen to have the blockers were selected and others.

Source: Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin