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The issue
A significant increase to the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce in Ontario is long overdue. RNAO’s Vision for Tomorrow puts forward eight recommendations for expanding and supporting the supply of and use of NPs in Ontario. Integrating more NPs in the health-care workforce and expanding their roles and scope will increase health equity and access to health care in our province. NPs can play a critical role in achieving the government’s health system transformation goals and meeting the objectives of the quadruple aim: improved patient experience, improved patient outcomes, lower cost of care and improved provider experience.
Take action
RNAO NP Institute 2023: Illuminating NP Practice Excellence
Join more than 300 NPs, NP students and RNs aspiring to be NPs on April 27 from 8:30 a.m. — 5 p.m. ET at RNAO's NP Institute 2023 virtually. Free of charge for RNAO's NPs.
Action Alert
Don’t appeal the Bill 124 decision, premier!
Please join us in calling on Premier Ford to accept the court’s decision on Bill 124.
Action Alert
An urgent call for more nurse practitioners (NP)
Join our call for more nurse practitioner (NP)-led clinics and attending NPs in long-term care.
Nurse Practitioner Interest Group (NPIG)
NPIG endeavours to strengthen the NP role in Ontario’s health-care system by supporting and representing action on behalf of NPs in collaboration with RNAO's board of directors. Visit NPIG's website.
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Sally Baerg, NP-PHC, MSc, MScN, CHPCN(C)
NPIG Chair
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Shannon Claussen, NP
NPIG Co-Chair
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NP policy documents
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Nurse practitioner position statement
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Nurse practitioner position statement
Increasing the number of nurse practitioners working to full scope across all sectors and settings is critical to increasing access to health care and health equity in Ontario. Read our position statement below and watch our video.
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RNAO’s Nurse Practitioner Task Force report: Vision for Tomorrow
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RNAO’s Nurse Practitioner Task Force report: Vision for Tomorrow
On Feb. 25, 2021 RNAO released the Nurse Practitioner Task Force report, Vision for Tomorrow. The report features eight recommendations that reflect RNAO’s unwavering advocacy for increased NP supply, utilization and scope. The implementation of these recommendations must begin immediately with co-ordinated action from government, academic, health service and association stakeholders.
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Vision for Tomorrow: Political action bulletin
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Vision for Tomorrow: Political action bulletin
RNAO has developed evidence-based political action bulletins on our priority issues for QPOR meetings with MPPs. The Vision or Tomorrow political action bulletin provides an overview of NP effectiveness, NP share of the nursing workforce and RNAO’s recommendations to provincial government for optimization of the NP role in an integrated health system.
Other policy documents related to NPs:
- Vision for Tomorrow: Fact sheet, April 2021
- RNAO NP Research Chair, November 2021
- Expanded Scope of NP Practice - Letter to Hon. Christine Elliott, October 2021
- RNAO's Response to Premier Hon. Doug Ford RE: Mandatory Vaccination a Benefit for Hospitals , October 2021
- A message to Premier Ford and Minister Fullerton re: Jan 8, 2021 directives, February 2021
- Expand Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice: Implementing Point-of-Care Testing, Aug 2020
- RNAO letter to Minister Elliot re: NP, RN, RPN expanded scope, June 2019
- Increase access to care by fully utilizing NPs, 2019
- RN/NP workforce backgrounder, 2019
- Fully utilizing Nurse Practitioners: Prescribing controlled substances and other expanded authority, 2017
