Dear , Thank you to all the nurses who took part in our De-Escalation series. We appreciated your engagement and hope you learned new skills to support you in practice! A reminder for RPNs interested in ongoing professional development that our Leadership series begins September 21st. Join us for one of our engaging 8 week courses:
Leadership 1: Developing Your Leadership: This course focuses on the key theories of communication, problem-solving, change and influencing management, and conflict resolution, to develop personal and professional leadership skills at the individual RPN level.
Leadership 2: Influencing Change in Healthcare: This course provides learners with tools so that you are able to influence the decisions and policies that are most important to nurses and the people you care for.
Leadership 3: Championing Patient Centered Care: This course helps RPNs gain a critical examination on the role of practical nurses in patient centered care at the system and individual level.
Click here for further details and to register. If you have any questions about the courses, please email Sharon Foster at sfoster@werpn.com
Key Provincial Updates and Resources for Health Professionals
Yesterday, the Ontario government announced an investment of $294,000 from the Ontario Together Fund in North Bay-based New Ontario Brewing Co. This investment will enable the local brewery to retool its facility in order to produce
more than 100,000 litres of hand sanitizer for hospitals, pharmacies, and grocers in the area. Late last week, the provincial government also eased certain COVID-19 restrictions for meeting and event facilities, as well as for bars and restaurants.
For meeting and event facilities, up to 50 guests are now permitted for each indoor meeting room or event space contained within the facility. This is up from the previous capacity
limit of 50 guests for the entire facility and applies to space rentals within convention centres, hotels, motels, resorts, banquet halls, and conference centres. The capacity limit does not include venue staff or event personnel.
For bars and restaurants, contact information is now only required to be collected for one person per party for contact tracing purposes. Previously, this information was required for all patrons at bars, restaurants, and other food and drink establishments.
Key Federal Updates Over the weekend, Erin O’Toole, Member of Parliament for Durham, was elected the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. O’Toole’s platform included a commitment to balancing Canada’s budget while winding down emergency COVID-19 benefits such as the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). On healthcare, O’Toole would prioritize augmenting the international recruitment of healthcare workers and reducing Canada’s reliance on other countries for critical supplies such as pharmaceuticals and personal protective equipment. He has also committed to convening a Royal Commission on the Pandemic to make public lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis and to ensure that Canada is better prepared in the future. On August 21st, the federal government, in partnership with the Government of Ontario and 3M Canada, announced a joint investment to expand 3M Canada’s manufacturing facility for N95 respirators in Brockville, Ontario. The Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario will each contribute $23.33 million, and will each be supplied with 25 million N95 respirators per year from the facility, over the next five years. On August 20th, the federal government announced an extension of CERB for an additional four weeks, and a plan to transition the millions of Canadians still claiming this benefit to a revamped Employment
Insurance program beginning on September 27th. The federal government will also extend the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) by four weeks, to enable businesses to continue
to keep furloughed workers on their payroll. For more information, we encourage you to visit the Government of Canada website.
Daily Reports
As of 10:30AM today, Ontario reported 41, 607 confirmed cases (increase of 100), 37,748 resolved cases, 2,800 deaths and 17, 259 currently under investigation with lab results pending.
The Ministry is also reporting that 39 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19, 13 are in ICU and 10 are vented. To view these additional details: click
here
World Health Organization Situation Reports are also available here
In the News For an interactive map tracking all cases across Canada and internationally, click here
Below are some key stories from today that may be of interest to our members:
We encourage RPNs looking for employment opportunities to sign up on all the platforms noted above.
We will continue to monitor this situation and keep you updated as more information becomes available. Thank you for the important work that you're doing and the sacrifices you're making to keep Ontarians safe. We appreciate everything that you're doing each and every day.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact info@werpn.com
Sincerely,
WeRPN Team
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