At RNAO we are increasingly concerned about the societal harms arising from social media. The following article from the Center for Humane Technology explores how social media companies purposefully exploit biological vulnerabilities in the human brain.

On April 8 RNAO issued the following media release in response to the federal budget.

Ontarians will cast a vote in the provincial election on June 2. To inform voters on each party’s priorities, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) will be co-hosting an all-party virtual debate with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment’s Ontario Chapter (CAPE-ON) on April 19 focused on health and justice in a climate emergency.

Welcome to my Tuesday, April 19 blog. This week we share: 1) Environmental priorities on agenda during RNAO and CAPE-ON provincial party debate; 2) RNAO urges Premier Doug Ford not to lift mask mandates in high-risk settings scheduled to end April 27; 3) RNAO responds to the federal budget; and 4) how social media hacks our brains. Scroll down for Action Alerts and upcoming RNAO webinars.

Social media as a public health crisis: “It’s time to take old approaches to a new threat of addiction.” Below is an article published on July 20, 2021 by Helen Lee Bouygues in U.S. NEWS. She is the founder of the Reboot Foundation.

RNAO continues to speak about prominent nursing and health-care issues. This is a report on our media outreach during the months of February and March.

These are the introductory words to my April 4 report.

Welcome to my Monday, April 4 blog. This week we share: 1) Save the date for RNAO’s 97th Annual General Meeting: June 9 – 11, 2022; 2) RNAO’s ongoing media profile – the February and March 2022 report; and 3) an article on social media as a public health crisis, calling to treat it like one. Scroll down for Action Alerts and upcoming RNAO webinars.