Recognizing the crucial role that family doctors play in delivering health care, the province announced this week it intends to work with the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association to begin the process of formally recognizing family medicine as a specialty. The province says having family medicine as a specialty would emphasize the importance of primary […]
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Nursing unions and leaders from across Atlantic Canada are in St. John’s over the next few days for meetings on shared strategies, challenges, and advocacy work. The group represents licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, and nurse practitioners in all four eastern provinces. NTV’s Jodi Cooke reports.
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On Saturday, November 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services will hold its annual Cervical Screening Day at the Women’s Health Clinic at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s. Both walk-in services and booked appointments are available. To book an appointment, call (709) 777-3018 or (709) 777-7460. Pap tests will be […]
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Effective Monday, November 3, at 8:00 a.m., masking is temporarily required in all clinical areas in hospitals and health-care facilities, including long-term care facilities. Masking requirements in clinical areas apply to visitors/support persons, clients, patients and health-care workers. NL Health Services says these precautions are in place to help keep patients, clients, long-term care residents, […]
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Young Newfoundland and Labrador nurses are leaving the profession in droves. As NTV’s Beth Penney tells us, this province’s Registered Nurses’ Union says they’ve been advocating ways to retain nurses for years now.
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