RNAO Nursing Week Poster Campaign

With thousands of nurses eligible to retire in the next decade, Ontario nurses will be hard pressed to meet the public’s health-care needs unless efforts are made to draw more people into the profession and retain those currently in the workforce.

That’s why the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO), in collaboration with the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO), and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term care are re-launching a public awareness campaign during National Nursing Week (May 11-17th) to convince more people that nursing is the best career choice.

More than 1700 posters will be displayed on the Toronto Transit Commission’s subways and buses. Posters will also be displayed on GO Transit trains and 30 billboards across Ontario. The posters feature real nurses who work in public health, long-term care, home care and hospitals.

RNAO president Wendy Fucile says the campaign is an opportunity to show people how much you can do as a nurse. “The richness of opportunity within nursing is extraordinary.” Doris Grinspun, the executive director of RNAO says that communities across Ontario are experiencing nursing shortages and the reality is “we need nurses and many of them – if we are going to ensure the kind of care that people across this province need, expect and deserve.”

For more information about a career in nursing, please contact Cameron Vale at cvale@rnao.org.

You can download PDF versions of these posters in two different sizes by clicking the links below.