I've been working weekends as a nurse vaccinator in #ldnont. With more and more people getting appointments now I thought I would share 5 top tips you should know in advance of your vaccine appointment:
1) Arrive for your appointment time (or just a couple mins early). Back-ups happen when many people choose to arrive a different amount of time early (30 mins, 45 mins, 60 mins). We create our own lines by arriving at a time that isn't our appointment time so just be on time.
2) Fill out your consent form in advance by printing it at home. Your longest wait points are check-in and check-out, the actual vaccination is quite quick. You will speed up the process by having the completed form with you.
3) Understand the difference between medication reactions, allergies, and major anaphylactic allergies. We spend a lot of time talking about the 1st but are mostly concerned about the 3rd. Speed up your appointment by skipping that codeine makes your stomach sick.
4) For any medication or medical condition you can think of that may raise a question about your eligibility, talk to you primary care health provider in advance. Yes, we can trouble-shoot this with you on site but it's way faster if you already have permission from your provider
5) All that said, do ask us questions! We love answering your questions and given we take time to enter some things on the iPad for each dose anyways, a bit of chit chat will not delay things as all. I love the chance to share the things we are learning.
So, as the sites in London get geared up to administer 2,000+ doses a day, we need your help to make appointments run quickly and smoothly.
Just a clarification on #3 - the example of codeine is of a common side effect to distinguish from an allergy (abnormal immune response). If you have reacted in a way to a medication and don't know if it was an allergy or side effect, definitely tell your vaccinator.
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After several years in development, I am deeply honoured to announce the launch of the International Journal on Homelessness - ijoh.ca
We seek to be a platform for truly global knowledge exchange on preventing and ending homelessness locally and globally.
We value the vital contributions of existing journals on housing and homelessness and look to compliment the work with our values of excellent scholarship, international knowledge sharing, and making space for inclusion of scholarship from the Global South.
To live out these values we are allowing reviews to take place from beginning through to acceptance in as many languages as possible, currently accepting manuscripts in English, French, Portuguese, Farsi, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic.
Welcome back @WesternU students to another semester that will go by faster than you can imagine! Here are my three top tips as a Western grad and now Western prof for success this term:
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1) Make your health and well-being your number one priority. 99 times out of 100 when I see great students struggle academically it is because of challenges outside of the classroom. Check out all the great supports over at uwo.ca/health/
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2) Read ahead or start an assignment now. New semesters come with new motivation so best to tap into that energy before the work all piles up at the same time. Workloads don't balance across the term but you can organize yourself to spread it out somewhat.
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The Government of Ontario removing the child benefit from refugee families is a bad policy approach. This WILL increase homelessness and delay successful settlement. Here's why:
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I'm currently wrapping up a research study exploring pathways of refugee families into emergency shelters. We interviewed families in shelters in London and Toronto. We wanted to understand how they ended up in shelter and if this could be prevented.
What we learned is that refugee families face administrative/bureaucratic barriers to accessing resources and in the meantime have no choice but to go to shelter. Access to income was one of the main challenges, but until now there have been opportunities.