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The Toronto Star Nightingale award for outstanding nurse goes this year to Madge Reece, who works in the secure mental health unit at Humber Regional.
2011’s Nightingale an ‘angel’ to the mentally ill Valerie Hauch  

Madge Reece is an RPN in Humber River Regional Hospital's Keele St. mental health unit and recipient of the Toronto Star's...

Xanne Briggs, 46, a veteran ER nurse, is reunited with Tim Rafferty, whom she helped marry his longtime love Pauline Duvall-Rafferty in the emergency department of Grand River Hospital.
‘Let the party begin’ says dying bride-to-be Paul Dalby  

Pauline Rafferty was supposed to be married two days down the road. Nurse Xanne Briggs had an inspired idea.

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After getting her diploma in the 1980s, nurse Sharron Poole returned to university to earn a bachelor of science degree in a
From diploma to degree Kristin Rushowy  

A Ryerson University program offers college-trained nurses a university degree and the chance to move ahead in their careers...

Regent Park clinic offers hope to Hep C patients Bill Taylor  

A non-judgmental approach helps keep patients, most of whom contracted hepatits through drug use, returning for treatment.

Agency helps foreign-trained nurses qualify to work here Raveena Aulakh  

CARE offers language courses, exam training and peer job shadowing to help immigrants get their RN licence from Ontario's...

Nurses on the front lines of battle against smoking STEVEN PECAR  

Ontario association urges nurses to get tough with patients who smoke, since research shows people will listen if they get the...

Accessible care, thanks to nurse practitioners Elvira Cordileone  

Nurse-led clinics are part of a health-care transformation, serving patients where doctors are scarce.

Nurse numbers rise, but Ontario still lagging Elvira Cordileone  

Ontario has made real progress in adding nursing positions, but still sits second from the bottom nationally.

Bringing joy into hospice care Janice Bradbeer  

As their mother faded, the Murphy girls found a new 'sister' in palliative care nurse Mona Desroches, 'our rock.'

Compassionate care for people with complex diseases Valerie Hauch  

Bridgepoint Health nurse Dan Parmigiano is the recipient of Honourable Mention in the Toronto Star’s Nightingale Award for...

A beacon for families in crisis Janice Bradbeer  

Julie Constantin’s vow to advocate for their daughter as though she were her own won’t be forgotten by two loving parents.

Pet therapy makes good medicine for seniors Jennifer Brown  

Retired nurse Bonnie Fernie has extended her caring career with the help of a lively cocker spaniel named Tootsie.

More than 140 nurses nominated for Nightingale

This year’s nominees for annual Star award were submitted from Fort Erie to Muskoka.

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