Amid signs of a growing crisis in the province's health-care system, an alert went out Thursday that the emergency department at Toronto General Hospital was at capacity and that doctors should send their patients elsewhere.
Emergency department nurses in the Huron-Perth Healthcare Alliance believe they have an answer to the rolling ER closures plaguing the region hire more casual nurses.
Ontario s nursing college can now start allowing internationally educated nurses to practise while they work toward full registration, which the government hopes will see thousands more nurses in the health system.