Nurses

This article discusses changes in nurses training and new hospital management strategies. Illustrates how the work environment for nurses has transformed and introduces the controversy of technology vs hands-on care.  

This article illustrates the influence of culture as an essential ingredient of nurses’ training.  Validates traditional knowledge.  Highlights the authors experience in creating the curriculum for The Saskatchewan Indian Community College. 

The survey was administered to a sample of LPNs, RNs and RPNs from across the country. Data from the survey help to identify relationships between selected health outcomes, the work environment and work-life experiences.

Highlights current trends in the nursing workforces and provides provincial/territorial nursing workforce profiles. This document also presents a partial look at the Health Human Resource workforce of Canada's provincial and territorial health regions.

This study explores patient classification systems and their impact on front-line workers in rural long-term care homes in Ontario and Manitoba.

Identifies areas and opportunities for action that identified by expert decision makers in nurse staffing and patient safety and informed by research evidence.

Looks at the causes of and possible solutions to the nursing crisis.

Discusses the Canadian nursing workforce, and addresses the current issues in human resources planning and management.

Measures the retention of registered nurses (RNs) in Canada by studying provincial and territorial registration data between 2000 and 2004.

Provides a review of general definitions and position papers on scopes of practice of health professions.