Our Health, Our Future: Creating Quality Workplaces for Canadian Nurses

Final Report of the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee on Health Human Resources
August, 2002

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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Terminology

Executive Summary

Background - The Origins of the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee

The Problem - What Is Causing the Shortage of Nursing Care?

• Introduction
• The Extent of the Shortage
• A Delicate Balance - Who is Leaving Nursing and Who is Coming In?
• On the Front Line of Canadian Health Care: The Burden of the Shortage
  
• A Global Perspective
• Beyond Nurses: Patients, Residents, Clients, Families and Other Team Members

Solutions: Improving the Working Lives of Canadian Nurses

• Lessons Learned: What are the Workplace Conditions that Retain Nurses, Minimize Turnover and Increase Job Satisfaction?
• Work in Progress across the Country
• Further Reading

Recommendations

• Overview: Recommendations of the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee
• Recommendation I: Put in Place Conditions to Resolve Operational Workforce Management Issues and Maximize the Use of Available Resources
• Recommendation II: Create Professional Practice Environments that Will Attract and Retain a Healthy, Committed Workforce for the 21st Century
• Recommendation III: Monitor Activities and Generate and Disseminate Information to Support a Responsive, Educated and Committed Nursing Workforce

Conclusion

References

Further Reading

Appendices

• Appendix A: Executive Summary of The Nursing Strategy for Canada
• Appendix B: Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee Terms of Reference
• Appendix C: Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee Executive Summaries of Commissioned Research Projects
• Appendix D: Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee Structure
• Appendix E: Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee Membership
• Appendix F: Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee Guests and Presenters

The time is always right
to do what is right.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.