RNAO encourages its members to speak to reporters about nursing and health-care issues. Media stories featuring nurses are integral to raising awareness and understanding what is needed to improve the nursing profession and health-care system as a whole.

Please read the following stories featuring RNAO members from this month:

• Birgit Umaigba and Sebastian Warchol, Toronto Star: New nurses in Ontario are being ‘stretched too thin, too often and too early.’ That’s the reality of the job under COVID-19
• Wendy McNeil, CTV News Northern Ontario: Frustrated and exhausted, Sudbury nurse resigns over mounting workload
• Lhamo Dolkar, Daria Juüdi-Hope, Beth Sweeney, Rachel Radyk, Leigh Chapman, Shirlee Sharkey, Lindsay Peltsch, Toronto Star: The good, the bad and the ugly: 12 Ontario nurses reflect on 2021
• Naila Shaikh, The Pointer: Brampton Civic seeing fewer severe COVID cases compared to previous waves, but staffing crisis threatens to overwhelm hospitals
• Roxie Danielson, Healthy Debate: Granola bars, gift cards and phone chargers: The little extras nurses carry to get colleagues and patients through tough times
• Heidi Janson, CBC News: Nursing in crisis
• Eram Chhogala, Toronto Life: “Staff are calling in sick every day”: How this ER nurse is coping with the Omicron surge
• Ike Ejesi, Healthy Debate: Despite (or because of?) pandemic, students are flocking to nursing
• Paula Manuel, Brampton Guardian: Brampton council calls on Ford government to repeal 2019 legislation capping nursing pay increases

If you’re interested in being contacted by a member of RNAO’s communications department for potential media opportunities, please complete RNAO’s short survey.