Nursing health human resources

With more than 3 million members, the nursing profession is the largest segment of the nation’s health care workforce. Working on the front lines of patient care, nurses can play a vital role in helping realize the objectives set forth in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, legislation that represents the broadest health care overhaul since the 1965 creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. A number of barriers prevent nurses from being able to respond effectively to rapidly changing health care settings and an evolving health care system. These barriers need to be overcome to ensure that nurses are well- positioned to lead change and advance health.

The overall aim of the project was to understand the nature of changing management cultures in the NHS and explore their relationships with changing organisational performance. Specifically we sought to:
- identify and classify the extant cultures in key NHS organisations;
- explore how these cultures evolve and transform over time, both in response to external policies and as a result of internal or cross-boundary drivers;

A Journey between Urban and Remote Practice Settings

A slideshow of a presentation at the National Aboriginal Health Organization's November 2009 conference.

This report marks the culmination of the Nursing Sector Study. The five year study consisted of two phases, and examined the nursing workforce for all three regulated nursing professions in Canada (Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) Registered Nurses (RN), and Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPN)). Phase I, which concluded in December 2004, examined the state of nursing human resources in Canada.