“ While there is ongoing discussion about "returning to normal," normal should not mean "back to the way things were"”
Wojtak et al.

Insights

Let’s Talk COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Mobeen Ahmad, Judy Truong and Umair Majid (July 2020)

To ensure widespread uptake of a potential COVID-19 vaccine, healthcare professionals must understand factors that encourage or discourage vaccine hesitancy to better address individual concerns.

Off the Cuff

National Nursing Week 2021

#WeAnswerTheCall

• Implementing a Just Culture: Perceptions of Nurse Managers of Required Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes by Michelle Freeman, Linda A. Morrow, Margo Cameron and Karen McCullough  (Nursing Leadership, 2016)
• Calling All Nurses and Nursing Leaders: How Do “You” Get Knowledge into Practice? Is a Broker the Answer? by Barbara Davies (Nursing Leadership, 2015)
• Pandemic Influenza: When Mother Nature Calls, Will We be Prepared to Answer? by J. Bennet Waters (Healthcare Papers, 2007)

I got a COVID-19 vaccine. When will my life get back to normal?

Should we ditch AstraZeneca before it drags down the whole vaccine campaign? André Picard

Ontario likely to mix first and second COVID-19 vaccine doses amid lack of AstraZeneca supply: Elliott

Mix and match: Canadian officials watching the data on alternating COVID-19 vaccines

What Canada can learn from U.S., U.K. about COVID-19 vaccinations and reopening

Ontario’s fiscal watchdog says surgical backlog will take more than 3.5 years to clear

Ontario’s stay-at-home order may be extended past May 20, Elliott says

Dozens of Ontario nursing home patients died of dehydration and neglect not COVID-19, military reports find

More from the Longwoods Archives:

• Finding a New Normal: Hospital Governance Best Practices during COVID-19 by Nyranne Martin (Healthcare Quarterly, 2020)
• COVID-19 Response: Clearing Surgical Backlogs and Adapting Surgical Care Delivery by Waddell et al. (Insights, 2020)
• Opportunities for Action toward a Sustainable Health System by Jennifer Zelmer (Healthcare Papers, 2020)
• Stress, Coping and Lessons Learned from the SARS Outbreak by Robert Maunder (Healthcare Quarterly, 2003)

Events

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News

• Many nurses are considering leaving the profession as pandemic stress leads to burnout, poll finds
• More Canadians hospitalized from substance use since pandemic started, report finds
• WHO classifies B1617 variant, first identified in India, as global variant of concern
• Embracing the science on airborne transmission is key to preventing new COVID-19 outbreaks
• MPs from all five parties urge Ottawa to support WTO’s COVID-19 vaccine waiver
• Ontario vowed to investigate horrific deaths in long-term care. Now it says that didn't happen
• Doctors make life-and-death decisions as India's battle against COVID-19 rages on
• All Albertans aged 12 and older will be eligible for vaccines by Monday, premier says
• Health Canada authorizes Pfizer vaccine for adolescents
• 'Preferred vaccines' messaging from federal panel sparks concern, criticism from health experts

Conferences

• May 12, 2021: Online. Sample Class: Leadership and Presence for an Interconnected World
• May 13-14, 2021: Online: Emergency Preparedness for the Health Care Industry
• May 17-18 2021: Virtual. ARCC2021 10th Annual Conference
• May 18, 2021: Virtual. Canada Health Infoway: Health Care Landscape
• May 19-21, 2021: Virtual. Hindsight, Insight and Foresight - 2021 Annual CAHSPR Conference
• May 26-27, 2021: Virtual. COVID-19 The Road to Recovery
• May 26-27, 2021: Virtual. e-Health 2021
• May 27, 2021: Virtual. Goal Management Training® Train-the-Trainer Online Workshop
• June 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, & 23, 2021: Online. NIHI-McMaster University Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Module 3
• June 9, 2021: Online. Home and Community Care Conference
• June 15, 2021: Virtual. Canada Health Infoway: Improving Patient / Caregiver Digital Health Literacy
• July 20, 2021: Virtual. Canada Health Infoway: Partnering for Success
• October 4-6, 2021: Toronto. North American Conference on Integrated Care

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Featured Jobs

• Executive Vice President, Business Development, Health Care - SteriPro Canada, Mississauga, ON
• President and Chief Executive Officer - Arnprior Regional Health, Arnprior, ON
• Regional Managers, Nursing -  PracticeNWT, Across the Northwest Territories
• CEO - Bob Rumball Canadian Centre of Excellence for the Deaf, Toronto, ON
• Clinical Practice Leader Critical Care - Humber River Hospital, Toronto, ON
• Medical Sonographer - PracticeNWT, Inuvik, NT
• Patient Care Manager - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON
• Director, Microbiology - Sinai Heath System, Toronto, ON
• Director, Patient Support Services - Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, ON

Transitions

• Dennis Ko to Jack Tu Chair, Cardiovascular Outcomes Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• Michael Gardam to Acting Chief Executive Officer, Health PEI, Charlottetown, PE
• Tracy-Anne McPhee to Minister of Health and Social Services, Government of the Yukon, Whitehorse, YK
• Michelle Acorn to Chief Nurse, International Council of Nurses, Geneva, CH
• Heather Soberman to Sr. Manager, Transformation and Strategic Partnership, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON
• Anna-Marie Sutherland to VP Patient Experience, Health Integration and CNO, Headwaters Health Care Centre, Orangeville, ON