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If You Cannot Do It – Can You Teach It? – PHE America

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People with physical disabilities hold limited positions as scholars, teachers, or leaders in physical education, recreation, and sports. Perhaps the reason is that the field is flooded with able-bodied people who think they know best. But do they? Michael Oliver, imminent writer, and scholar argued that people with physical disabilities should be the only ones in the field of disability studies because they have a bodily experience with disabilities. The following five-part article series shares the perspective of a scholar in the field of sports disability who has his own physical limitations. In each article, he

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Health Care

Alberta urged to create chief nursing officer position to help fix health system

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As Alberta looks to relieve pressure on its stressed health system, nurses are calling on the freshly re-elected provincial government to bring in a chief nursing officer to work alongside its chief medical officer of health.

The position was reinstated at the federal level last year, a decade after it was eliminated.

Nurses want Alberta to follow suit.

“It’s so important we have that nursing voice in decision making,” said Kathy Howe, executive director of the Alberta Association of Nurses.

“[This is] someone that the government can rely on for accurate information, someone who can advocate for nursing and someone

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The memo suggests ER doctors calling in sick at 2 Vancouver hospitals pay out of pocket to get shifts covered

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An internal memo to emergency department staff at two Vancouver hospitals has suggested that doctors calling in sick pay half of the financial incentive in place to encourage others to cover their shifts.

Emergency room doctors called at the last minute to cover for a sick colleague are typically paid incentives of about $500.

The memo to emergency department staff at St. Paul’s and Mount St. Joseph’s hospitals say the department doesn’t have the budget to cover frequent sick calls.

“[A]agreement that there is a need for a more formalized, agreed upon approach when it comes to sick calls,” the

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