photo: BC Nurses Union, Rally for Patients Care, Nanaimo, September 17/14; L-R: Gayle Duteil, BCNU President;
Jo Salken, Regional Chair; Jackie Moad, RN; Christine Sorensen VP BCNU; Adriane Gear, Co-Chair S. Islands
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 18, 2014
Health Care Rally Kicks Off Candidate's First Day
Nanaimo-Ladysmith Nurse Running Hard for the NDP Nomination
NANAIMO – With a rally cry of "Send a Nurse to Parliament", Jackie Moad - Registered Nurse and candidate for the NDP nomination in Nanaimo-Ladysmith, spent her first day of campaigning on the streets and in the conference rooms with 150 nurses from all over BC.
Marching through the streets of Nanaimo, representatives of the BC Nurses Union rallied before going to a conference that was examining deteriorating working conditions for nurses, and changes needed to improve patient care.
"I take my responsibility to my patients very seriously," says Moad, a registered nurse working at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. "And that's why I’m here today." Ms Moad has twenty years experience as an RN, working in Ottawa and Nanaimo. She regards health care as both a federal and provincial responsibility - and is running to be elected as the local NDP candidate in the 2015 election. "My care for patients can at times make the difference between life and death," Moad states. "Our nation’s approach to health care should be equally serious and attentive to details."
Moad is concerned that the federal government is failing in its responsibility to deliver health care programs to Canadians."The creeping privatization of healthcare is eroding our social safety net," Moad contends, "along with our ability to help one another through times of need."
Ms Moad points to the Prime Minister's reluctance to meet with provincial Premiers, arguing that the partnership and cooperation necessary to maintain public health care is unravelling and neglected. "It's time that we, you and I and all Canadians, asked ourselves some tough questions about health care and our future," said Moad. "My campaign priority is to protect our health system, and to speak up for a way of life that has served us all, our families and communities."
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For more information :Jackie Moad, Candidate for NDP Nomination, Federal Riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith (250 722-7223) <http://jackiemoad.weebly.com>
Jo Salken, Regional Chair; Jackie Moad, RN; Christine Sorensen VP BCNU; Adriane Gear, Co-Chair S. Islands
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 18, 2014
Health Care Rally Kicks Off Candidate's First Day
Nanaimo-Ladysmith Nurse Running Hard for the NDP Nomination
NANAIMO – With a rally cry of "Send a Nurse to Parliament", Jackie Moad - Registered Nurse and candidate for the NDP nomination in Nanaimo-Ladysmith, spent her first day of campaigning on the streets and in the conference rooms with 150 nurses from all over BC.
Marching through the streets of Nanaimo, representatives of the BC Nurses Union rallied before going to a conference that was examining deteriorating working conditions for nurses, and changes needed to improve patient care.
"I take my responsibility to my patients very seriously," says Moad, a registered nurse working at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. "And that's why I’m here today." Ms Moad has twenty years experience as an RN, working in Ottawa and Nanaimo. She regards health care as both a federal and provincial responsibility - and is running to be elected as the local NDP candidate in the 2015 election. "My care for patients can at times make the difference between life and death," Moad states. "Our nation’s approach to health care should be equally serious and attentive to details."
Moad is concerned that the federal government is failing in its responsibility to deliver health care programs to Canadians."The creeping privatization of healthcare is eroding our social safety net," Moad contends, "along with our ability to help one another through times of need."
Ms Moad points to the Prime Minister's reluctance to meet with provincial Premiers, arguing that the partnership and cooperation necessary to maintain public health care is unravelling and neglected. "It's time that we, you and I and all Canadians, asked ourselves some tough questions about health care and our future," said Moad. "My campaign priority is to protect our health system, and to speak up for a way of life that has served us all, our families and communities."
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For more information :Jackie Moad, Candidate for NDP Nomination, Federal Riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith (250 722-7223) <http://jackiemoad.weebly.com>