RNAO is proud of members who speak to reporters about their experiences and advocate on nursing and health-related issues in media stories. It is important that nurses’ voices and perspectives are featured in relevant stories to keep Ontarians informed on the profession and changes needed in health care. 

Read the following news stories featuring RNAO members:

• Sandy Filice and Janet McCabe, Sudbury.com: With health care in spotlight, some Ontario nursing programs see record applications
• Kim Le, Toronto Star: This nurse worked in Toronto but couldn’t afford to live here. When her family’s housing search stretched to Barrie, she quit her job
• Maria Casas, Sudbury Star: Here's what province can do to ease nursing shortage
• Sarah Lancaster, CBC News: Funding for more nurse practitioners in long-term care draws praise in northwestern Ontario
• Enxhi Kondi, Toronto Star: Solving nursing crisis is key to public health care survival in Ontario (the final part of Kondi’s six-part op-ed series)
• Tiisha Smith, CBC News: The National: Rural ER struggling to stay open 24/7 and the staff who never stop caring
• Wendy Dunn, Stratford Beacon Herald: 'I'm hopeful': Local nurse practitioner welcomes efforts to ease health-care crunch
• Melanie Astle, Cornwall Seaway News: Recovery care mobile clinic makes first stop at Cornwall Public Library
• Joan Jickling, Oakville News: Nursing recruitment challenges at OTMH
• Megan Green, Toronto Sun: Durham hopes to end stigma around opioid disorders
• RNAO’s region 12 board representative Sue LeBeau, NWOnewswatch.com: Emergency Room staffing crisis in Red Lake covered by New York Times
• Yamaan Alsumadi, CBC News: Ontario has promised to put immigrant nurses to work faster. That change is long overdue
• Tammy DeGiovanni, Globe and Mail: Wait times for children needing surgery in Canada putting them at risk of lifelong consequences
• Julia Fournier, CBC News: The National: A hospital’s juggling act caring for patients with not enough staff

If you’re interested in speaking to reporters on the issues that matter most to you, please complete RNAO’s survey.