Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions

Protecting the health of patients and our national health system, and promoting nurses and the nursing profession at the national level - and doing it effectively - is the job of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions.

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Oct 11, 2005

Nurse/patient ratios âe" a useful roadmap to retaining nurses?

Nurses from across Canada are asking their leadership to examine the feasibility of implementing formal nurse-patient ratios as a strategy to address the ongoing problems of heavy workloads, workplac

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Mar 3, 2005

Cut waiting times without more nurses? Impossible

A tidal wave of retirements will hit nursing during the next five years and yet the recent federal budget leaves to the provinces the task of retaining experienced nurses now onthe job and recruiting

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Jul 30, 2004

Can we afford medicare?

Health care costs are growing faster than government revenues and the economy. As those costs eat up a growing share of GDP, can Canada afford to sustain public medicare? A new report from Canada's n

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Aug 26, 2003

Hospitals can kill you

As many as 250,000 Canadian patients pick up infections in hospitals every year. That's one in eight patients  and between 8,000 and 12,000 of those die because of it. A national study has foun

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Jun 18, 2003

Canada's New Head Nurse

Linda Silas has been elected to succeed Kathleen Connors at the helm of Canada's largest nurses organization. Silas is the first francophone to lead the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, re

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Nov 28, 2002

Romanow's Right, Nurses Say

Canada's largest nurses' organization is already praising today's seminal report on the future of medicare. Its president singled out Roy Romanow's recommendations to improve home care, diagnostic se

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Sep 17, 2002

Canada Faces Nursing Crisis

Slashing at medicare has left Canada with too few nurses  and too many suffering physical and emotional burnout. This ugly portrait appears in a recent report from an expert committee commissio

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