National Envelope - National Strategies - National Strategy on Collaborative Care Initiatives
Helping To Sustain Canada's Health System: Nurse Practitioners
in Primary Health Care
$8,914,526
The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) is a federation of 11 provincial and territorial nursing associations, representing more than 120,000 registered nurses and nurse practitioners. CNA's mission is to advance the quality of nursing in the interest of the public.
Partners:
Governments, nursing regulatory bodies, other nursing organizations.
Objectives:
- Develop recommendations about educational preparation for nurse practitioners in primary health care settings;
- Develop a framework to support full and effective integration of nurse practitioners into primary health care settings;
- Develop recommendations related to legislative framework for nurse practitioners, including a common definition of the role;
- Develop recommendations related to the regulation of nurse practitioners;
- Foster collaborative environments in which governments, health professionals, employers, and academics work together to integrate the role of nurse practitioners in Canada's primary health care system;
- Build public acceptance of a new primary health care model that includes nurse practitioners;
- Motivate nurses and students to become nurse practitioners;
- Develop models that provinces and territories can use to determine current and future requirements for nurse practitioners; and
- Develop recommendations to increase the supply of nurse practitioners as a national resource.
Activities:
- National analysis of existing competencies for nurse practitioners, curricula, program delivery, employer experience, educational mechanisms and components;
- Comprehensive consultation about, and analysis of, the role of nurse practitioners across Canada;
- Identification and analysis of core legislation and professional regulatory mechanisms essential to mobility and development of a national examination for nurse practitioners in primary health care settings;
- Development of communications framework and implementation of change management strategies; and
- Development of health human resources planning mechanisms and linkages.
Expected Results:
Recommended mechanisms and processes to support the implementation of the role of the nurse practitioner in primary health care across Canada.
Contact:
Marian Knock
Executive Director, Primary Health Care / Nurse Practitioner
50 Driveway
Ottawa, ON K2P 1E2
Tel: 613-237-2159 ext. 241
Fax: 613- 237-3529
Email: mknock@cna-aiic.ca (Ottawa) or marian.knock@shaw.ca (B.C.)
 www.cnpi.ca
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