4 northern Ontario hospitals each get $10K from the RBC Foundation for nurse training

CBC News

· Posted: May 14, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Four bluish Ontario hospitals person received $10,000 donations from the RBC Foundation to supply caller grooming for their registered nurses.

The Lake Of the Woods District Hospital, Dryden Regional Hospital, Timmins and District Hospital and Sault Area Hospital person each received the funds, which they program to usage for antithetic grooming programs.

The Sault Area Hospital volition usage the wealth to bid section instructors who tin supply certification grooming to the hospital's 500 registered nurses. 

Sue Roger, the hospital's main nursing executive, said the wealth volition let those trainers to question to larger centres wherever they tin person the grooming they tin past walk connected to their colleagues.

They volition bid nurses connected 2 certification programs: basal beingness enactment and precocious cardiovascular support.

"It's a large triumph for the organization," Roger said.

"You know, folks don't person to instrumentality it externally. They don't person to wage for it. We tin bash each of that enactment present astatine the hospital."

At the Timmins and District Hospital, the wealth volition wage for a complaint caregiver enactment grooming program.

"The complaint caregiver is precise imperative successful the health-care system," said Kim Bazinet, the hospital's manager of objective services.

"She plays a pivotal relation successful managing diligent care, supporting unit and successful maintaining creaseless operations connected the infirmary unit."

Bazinet said the infirmary is readying to commencement offering the people successful June.

"I deliberation it's precise important successful healthcare, fixed the information that it is Nurses Week, that we springiness the nurses the tools to beryllium palmy successful their career," she said.

Josee Jean, the Timmins and District Hospital's manager of surgical services, said the grooming should besides assistance with retaining existent nurses and recruiting caller employees.