Newsletter Archive
Issue 3 2010 - Issue 3
In this issue
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Cover Feature: Highlights from the 2010 AGM
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President’s Address - Big challenges yield successes
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Subject to debate - Constitutional amendments
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Speaking out - Speakers deliver strong messages about retirement, health care and more
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A full agenda… with ‘space’ for play! - This year's AGM and Banquet – 2010: A Space Odyssey – in pictures
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Yellow Ribbon Awards - MNU nurses recognized for activism and leadership
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Diversity - Canadian Culture and Communication for Nurses – Summer session starting soon!
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MNU celebrates 35 years - A photographic recap of the last 35 years
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Overtime: How much is too much? - How to ensure that overtime is the exception – not the rule
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LRO Report - Grievance Corner: Derogatory entries
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LRO Report - Duty to Accommodate: The Union’s Roles and Responsibilities
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Across Canada - National Information and Issues
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MNU News Briefs
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Riverview Google Group
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MNU Video Vault
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MNU donates to Rossbrook House
Issue 2 2010 - Issue 2
In this issue
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Cover Feature: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure - How social networking affects nursing
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Overtime: Mandatory Overtime - What to do when the manager is pointing to you
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No Cameras Allowed - Witnesses in Brian Sinclair inquest will not be televised
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Breast Health Centre - In-depth look at the services and programs offered at this one of a kind facility
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Research to Action - Successful mentorship program set to wrap up
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Commitment to Caring - MNU contributions help plant seeds of hope in Zambia
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Partnering in a Pandemic - Sandi Mowat spoke to Uof M nursing students about collaborations during the H1N1 Crisis
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MNU Board of Directors - Highlights from their recent AGM
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Across Canada - National Information and Issues
Issue 1 2010 - Issue 1
In this issue
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Cover Feature: Reversing the Pension Plunge - Increase in contributions needed to offset effects of the global economic downturn
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Overtime: Proceed with Caution - Exploring the effects of working excessive hours
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Nurses Take Blood Fight Online - CFNU launches Safe Blood website and calls on members across Canada to act now
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Labour Relations Reports - Duty to Accommodate – Exploring the role of the employee, the employer and the union when a duty to accommodate arises
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MNU Pledges Funds for Haiti - MNU passes motion to contribute $5000 to help in the relief effort in Haiti
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Touring Continues
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Taché Centre
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St. Amant Centre
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Across Canada - National Information and Issues
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Surf to Savings Online - The MNU Member Discount program is back with more offers and available online
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MNU News Briefs
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Nelson House employer not bargaining
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St. Boniface nurses back committee
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Bargaining moves along
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Board positions filled
Issue 6 2009 - Issue 6
In this issue
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Cover Feature: Workload Staffing Reports: Looking at the Data - Reports show the nursing shortage is still by far the leading cause of most workload/staffing concerns
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Tough Times For Alberta Nurses - Government cutbacks and a hiring freeze lead to protests
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Research to Action – Manitoba - Project Update – Excellence in Long Term Care: An Educational Series for Professionals
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Commitment to Caring: Profile - Nurse’s humanitarian mission in Mexico to last three years
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MNU Continues CBS Fight - Ignoring Objections, Canadian Blood Services pushes forward with potentially dangerous plans to deskill workforce
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Touring Continues
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Breast Health Centre, St. Boniface
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H1N1 Flu Vaccination Clinic, Portage Place
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Cancer Care Manitoba, HSC & SBGH
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Labour Relations Reports
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Pension & Benefits Review
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Duty to Accommodate
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Documentation Critical to WCB Claims
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Master Rotations and Posted Schedules
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MNU News Briefs
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Day of Inspiration Career Fair in Brandon
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Selinger Meets Nurses First Week in Office
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Mowat In “Fishbowl” at Conference
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Across Canada - National Information and Issues
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MNU Discount Program - MNU Discount Program returns with a whole new look!
Issue 5 2009 - Issue 5
In this issue
- Cover Feature: H1N1 Experts Converge - Experts from around the world attended an H1N1 Conference held in Winnipeg
- H1N1 – Disaster Management - MNU board invites expert from the Office of Disaster Management to respond to our recommendations for H1N1 protocol
- CFNU Meets Manitoba Minister - CFNU President met with the Minister of Health about proper protection for healthcare workers during the next wave of H1N1
- Shut Down - System developed to call in nurses during emergencies is disbanded in Ontario
- MNU Members – Back to School - Labour School 2009 in Gimli, Manitoba
- Roblin Nurse always gave 110% - Joan Langan – a commitment to caring that extended beyond her own life
- Commitment to caring - Tuelon nurse committed to caring for personal care home patients
- Research to Action – Manitoba - MNU is a provincial partner in this national initiative to recruit and retain nurses
- Touring continues - Misericordia Health Centre in Winnipeg
- Health Links/Info Santé - Nurses learn to triage over the phone
- Labour Relations Reports
- Pension & Benefits Review
- Maternity Leave Top-up
- MNU News Briefs
- Across Canada - National Information and Issues
- Break the Silence - Short-staffed? Poor conditions? Workload
Issue 4 2009 - Issue 4
In this issue
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Cover Feature - H1N1 Coverage
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MNU responds to H1N1 outbreak
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Nurse practitioners volunteer to fight H1N1 in the north
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Unions worldwide support nurses during flu pandemic
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No more shaming nurses - The Province of Manitoba changes Regulated Health Professions Act
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Bringing valuable experience - The ARHA recruited 35 internationallytrained nurses from the Philippines
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Commitment to caring - This issue profiles a nurse practitioner running a Teen Clinic in a high school
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CFNU Convention –Vancouver - Delegates met for the biennial convention to tackle key issues, including MNU support of Aboriginal nurses’ fight for rights
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Touring continues - Sandi Mowat tours facilities in Winnipeg, Churchill, Assiniboine and Central Regions.
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Losing the locks - Birtle Health Centre nurses shave their heads to raise money for cancer research
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Nursing runs in the family - A mother and daughter tell the stories of how they each got into nursing
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Labour Relations reports
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• Equivalent full-time and additional shifts
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• LRO works for a week at Victoria General
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• How to file Human Rights complaints
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MNU News Briefs
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Across Canada - National Information and Issues
Issue 3 2009 - Issue 3
In this issue
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Cover Feature - AGM 2009 Highlights
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President’s Address - Sandi Mowat reviews the last year
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Subject to Debate - Resolutions affecting the future of nursing
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Dancing Nurses - CFNU president gets delegates moving
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Yellow Ribbon Awards - Gloria Loveday and Lorette Walker
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A Commitment to Caring - A New Profile Series – This issue, two women from Nigeria come to nurse in Winnipeg
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MNU News Briefs
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The Dauphin grey-listing lifted
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Nurses march to the Legislature
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Petition against CBS decision
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Touring Continues… Sandi Mowat continues her province-wide tour, this time visiting the Central Region
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Bargaining ’09 - The Collective Bargaining Conference to prepare for upcoming negotiations
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Pension and Benefits Corner - Bob Romphf, MNU Labour Relations Officer – Benefits, updates you on what’s new
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Nurse Abuse - Statistics Canada reports that less than half of abuse incidents are reported – we need to speak up and report incidents of abuse
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Right to a Safe Workplace - Shauna Briscoe, MNU LRO, previews a campaign about violence against nurses
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Across Canada - National information and issues
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Where There’s Smoke… II - CSA creates the first-ever standards to protect against surgical plume
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MNU Board of Directors and Committee Executive
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myMNU Member Portal
Issue 2 2009 - Issue 2
In this issue
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Research to Action - Federal grant supports CFNU initiative to improve recruitment and retention
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Cover Feature: Lowering the Bar - MNU President and local Canadian Blood Services (CBS) RN oppose decision to replace nurses with unlicensed workers
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Where hasn’t Sandi been? - As the Annual General Meeting approaches, MNU President Sandi Mowat has been out and about, touring the province…
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Leg 11 – South Eastman Region
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Leg 12 – Victoria General Hospital
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Leg 13 – Health Sciences Centre
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Leg 14 – Assiniboine Region
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Leg 15 – Parkland Region
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Compassion Fatigue / Burnout - What it is; early signs to recognize it; and some simple proactive tips to prevent it
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Pension & Benefits Corner - Group Health Plan, Pension, and Disability and Rehabilitation Plan
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Human Rights Complaints - Determining whether or not you have a Human Rights Violation case… simplified
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Across Canada - Information and Issues from across the country
Issue 1 2009 - Issue 1
In this issue
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Cover Feature: Community Nursing – Workplace Safety in the Field
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PCBC Meets - Provincial Collective Bargaining Committee prepares for next Central Table Agreement
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The Tour of Duty… continues - Leg 9 and 10 take the MNU President to the Grace and St. Boniface Hospitals
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MNU Weighs In on Insite Appeal - Mowat responds to Feds’ decision to close down the Insite Safe-Injection Site
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“Worksite” vs. “Site” - What is the difference?
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WCB Appeals - What Should You Know About the Process?
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Maternity Leave Top-up - What is it? and How does it work?
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Pension & Benefits Corner - Pensions, Inflation Protection and the Disability and Rehab Plans
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Special Report - New Enhanced Group Healthcare Plan
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Workplace and Wellness - Canadian nurses speak their minds in National Survey
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Cross Country Checkup - National Information and Issues from ”Nurses’ Voice” – the CFNU Newsletter
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Your MNU Board of Directors
H1N1 Special Report 2009 - Issue H1N1 Special Report
In this issue
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Is Your Facility Prepared? H1N1-Specific Infection Policies and Procedures
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What We Have Learned from the Spring 2009 Pandemic
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Scientific Evidence Confirms N95 Use Offers Best Defence
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Workplace Safety and Health Act / Worker’s Compensation Rights
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