Dear , As we head into the Victoria Day weekend and close out Nursing Week 2020, we want thank everyone for their messages, stories and engagement throughout the week. It's been wondering to see our RPN community
come together to suport one another and celebrate our amazing profession. As your professional association, we love every opportunity to shine a light on the important work you're doing.
In addition our ongoing Nursing Week celebrations, we continued to call attention to important concerns for nurses such as pandemic pay. We've written to the government to request more clarity around for Public Health Nurse eligibility for pandemic pay.
We hope you will have a chance to unwind this weekend and spend time with family. We will be taking a little break on Monday but will be back with this newsletter on Tuesday May 19.
Key Provincial Updates and Resources for Health Professionals
The Government has updated the testing guidance to expand access to testing for Ontarians who are experiencing symptoms compatible with COVID-19.
The symptoms list has also been slightly modified to include myalgia (muscle aches) as an atypical symptom.
Key Federal Updates Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeauannounced $450 million in funding
to help Canada’s academic research community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The investment will:
Provide wage supports to universities and health research institutes, so they can retain research staff who are funded from industry or philanthropic sources and are unable to access some of the government’s existing COVID-19 support measures.
Support universities and health research institutes to maintain essential research-related activities during the crisis, and to ramp back up to full research operations once physical distancing measures are lifted.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also said the federal government will extend the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy until the end of August.
For more information, we encourage you to visit theGovernment of Canada website.
Daily Reports
As of 10:30AM today, Ontario reported 21,922 confirmed cases (increase of 428**), 16,641 resolved cases, 1,825 deaths and 14,373 currently under investigation with lab results pending.
**The Ministry noted a small glitch with yesterday's reporting. Because of a one-time data upload issue, yesterday missed 87 cases. While they’re captured in today’s update, the
real day-over-day numbers are 345 new cases on May 14 and 341 today.
The Ministry is also reporting that 986 patients are hospitalized with COVID-19, 179 are in ICU and 135 are vented. To view these additional details: click here Click Hereto read the latest Ministry of Health Daily Report **Please note, these reports are intended for health professionals only and we request that you not share this with the public.
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
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 Tiff Blair at tblair@werpn.com
Sincerely,
WeRPN Team
WeRPN 5025 Orbitor Drive Building 5, Suite 200 Mississauga, Ontario L4W 4Y5
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