The 2024 Breakfast of Champions was worth waking up for
If there’s one word to describe the 2024 Breakfast of Champions, it’s this one: awesome. An excited crowd of close to 1,200 people woke up early and came together at RBC Place London on Tuesday, May 7 for this year’s event. It was a high-energy morning spent celebrating people making a difference in...
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A day in the life of the Forensic Rehabilitation Team
The overnight nurses complete a handover of care to the nurses starting the day-shift – reporting on how patients did overnight – medication is administered, and breakfast is served to patients. By 8:30 am, the unit’s care station is filled with a flurry of activity. The clinical team gathers to...
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Back by ‘pap-ular’ demand
In response to overwhelming demand - and a glaring gap in care in London - St. Joseph’s innovative Pop-up Pap Test Clinic will be held for the second time on May 10.
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Caring for the body and mind
For Navpreet Kaur, a seasoned registered nurse in the Endoscopy Clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital, taking care of a patient’s physical illness is only part of a nurse’s responsibilities. After 17 years of nursing, she understands that listening to a patient and their families, answering their...
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No boundaries for compassion
International borders do not exist when it comes to delivering compassionate care as a nurse. No one knows that better than Luana Viernes, a registered nurse trained in the Philippines, who worked in Saudi Arabia and now cares for residents at Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care. Luana participated...
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Making a difference in Palliative Care
Carina Jacob lives her life a bit differently after caring for people who have died. As a registered nurse for six years, she spent the first four years of her career on the frontlines in Palliative Care at St. Joseph’s Health Care helping patients manage their symptoms due to a serious or life...
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World Labyrinth Days highlight how this form of ‘walking meditation’ can benefit everyone
Following a labyrinth is a spiritual practice that’s good for body, mind and spirit. It leads to increased calm, reduced blood pressure and stress, and improved mental health and well-being, say researchers and patient care experts at St. Joseph’s Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Health Care...
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‘Discovery comes from great questions’
When Lisa Porter was barely old enough to read, her parents bought a family-sized set of encyclopedias from a door-to-door salesperson. The A-to-Z world was suddenly at the six-year-old’s fingertips, in books that answered more questions than she knew how to ask. Today, as the new Vice President...
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