Longwoods™ Publishing presents the HR Resources Newsletter – access to: a database of best practices; Longwoods™ recruitment sites; key employer recruitment portals; a history of leadership transitions and appointments; current employment opportunities and more.

Vol.4 No.20 | October 6, 2011

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News and notes

• RRV: Health care systems ‘creatively’ finding professionals
• Progress, challenges on nursing shortage
• Alberta beating target for hiring homegrown nurses
• Get them where they live
• Hospital worker worries about burning lights and money at VG site
• Sarnia hospital project winding down
• Rhythm of Life event raises $71,500 for hospital
• Dancing to raise awarenessCANCER: Hospital staff shoot Pink Glove video
• Cleaning staff feel the pressure of public expectation to keep hospitals clean
• More news here

Essay

My Rage against the Machine (and what Healthcare can Learn from Steve Jobs)
Neil Seeman

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From the Longwoods Archives

Growing Practice Specialists in Mental Health: Addressing Stigma and Recruitment with a Nursing Residency Program
San Ng, Linda Kessler, Rani Srivastava, Janice Dusek, Deborah Duncan, Margaret Tansey and Lianne Jeffs

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Transitions

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Our transitions come from sources we believe to be reliable. We do not guarantee that they are correct. But we are rarely wrong.

• Samuel Elfassy to Chair, Board of Governors, North York (ON) General Hospital Foundation
• Mandy Lowe to Associate Director of the University of Toronto, Centre for Interprofessional Education
• Sarah Downey to Executive Vice President, Clinical Programs at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
• Ian Fish to lead the Connected Health Practice for Accenture Canada
• Derrick Leung to Accenture as part of the Connected Health Technology team
• Catherine Hunter to Accenture Management Consulting, Health Practice
• Heidi Brown to Health Business Development Lead for Ontario at Accenture
• Mark Henick appointed to the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Board of Directors
• Stephen Smith to Chair of The Scarborough (ON) Hospital’s Board of Directors
• Anne Rochon Ford to Executive Director of Canadian Women’s Health Network

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Featured Positions … Have we got nurse jobs for you!!

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• Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse (Continuing Care) – Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC
• RN/RPN Tertiary Mental Health – Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC
• Registered Nurse – 4D Express Medicine – Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga, ON
• Manager, Regional Neonatal & Paediatric Program – Rouge Valley Health System, Scarborough, ON
• Licensed Practical Nurse – Colchester East Hants Health Authority, Truro, NS
• RN’s and RPN’s –  VON, London, ON
• RN’s and RPN’s – VON, Thunder Bay, ON
• Regsitered Nurse, Chemotherapy – Northumberland Hills Hospital, Cobourg, ON
• Vice-President, Corporate Services – Central Community Care Access Centres, Toronto, ON
• Nurse Practitioner – LTC Rapid Response Team –  The Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, ON
• Registered Nurse – Oncology – Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON
• District Manager, Mississauga Halton-Haldimand Niagara Hamilton Brant Region – ParaMed Home Health Care, St. Catharines, ON
• Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse (Continuing Care) – Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC
• And lots more …

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 3:51 pm and is filed under Longwoods Online.