Context

Ontario’s nurses call on government and stakeholders to collectively strengthen our publicly-funded, not-for-profit health system and make it more responsive to the public’s needs, easier to navigate and more efficient and cost-effective. To make this happen, the health system must be anchored within primary care to advance primary health care for all through: health promotion, disease prevention, chronic disease management/prevention and mental health care.

Nurses and other health professionals practise to their full scope when they are in a practice environment that enables them to fully utilize their competencies, knowledge, and skills to provide high quality, evidence-based and patient-centred care.

The Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services is calling for an expansion to the scope of practice of nurses and other health professionals as a sustainability strategy for Ontario’s publicly-funded, not-for-profit health system.

RNAO released a comprehensive report called Creating Vibrant Communities: RNAO's Challenge to Ontario's Political Parties in January 2010. Although a provincial election doesn’t take place until later this year, Ontario nurses have created a list of priorities aimed at tackling poverty, creating a cleaner environment, and improving access to patient care and nursing services. RNAO shared these policy recommendations with politicians in the hope that they will adopt them as part of their political platforms for the election on Oct. 6.

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