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November 04, 2026Building Leadership in Home Health Nursing Practice in Canada: Updating the Home Health Nursing Competencies
Canada’s Home Health Nursing Competencies were revised through a collaborative process. This commentary by Karen Curry et. al. highlights the use of research and project workstreams, supported by a dissemination package, and emphasizes ongoing leadership engagement to ensure relevance, uptake and improved quality of care in home health settings. Brought to you by Nursing Leadership.
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Why healthcare for Canadian women veterans is falling short
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How the U.S. was left exposed to the flesh-eating screwworm, years into the outbreak
2026-11-09 from ctvnews.ca MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON -- For decades, planes dropped billions of factory-bred sterile flies to keep the flesh-eating New World screwworm out of North America’s [...]
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Canada's healthcare system is approaching structural limits: nearly $400 billion in annual spending, while nearly one in five Canadians is without a regular healthcare provider, emergency departments overflow and health inequities persist that universal coverage alone cannot resolve. This paper argues that social prescribing, a structured referral system connecting people to community resources through trained link workers, offers not merely an additional program but a paradigm shift. By making [...]
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