A nurse is not just a nurse

Nurses are underappreciated and underrepresented. They have a wide variety of skills that make them an essential part of the health-care system. We need nurses to be at the decision-making table. We need to give a voice to those driven young nurses who will be our leaders come the next pandemic.

Recently, well-known health-care journalist, André Picard wrote that "a bed is not just a bed." In the context of patient care, a bed, in and of itself, doesn’t guarantee that a patient is getting the right kind of care in the right place. The bed, and more importantly the type and ...

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