Author: Belroc

What springs to mind when we think about the ‘future’ of healthcare in Canada?  Maybe it’s space-age hospital facilities with lots of automated technologies?  Maybe it’s microsurgery and advanced, minimally-invasive treatments?   Perhaps more realistically, could it be a move away from inpatient treatments towards a

Surface hygiene in our hospitals and care homes has come under scrutiny like never before since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.   From walls and floors to doors and furnishings, the arrival of a new and highly infectious virus put an end to the belief

By now we all know that hand hygiene has an important role to play in controlling the spread of Covid-19 – and we’ve all been soaping up, singing ‘Happy Birthday’ and smothering our hands in alcohol sanitizer more than ever before in our lifetimes. But

Exhaustion, burnout and post-traumatic stress – just some of the impacts that working throughout a global pandemic has had on Canada’s nurses over the past 12 months. May is National Nurses Month and it’s an ideal time for all of us to reflect on the