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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. Increased integration of NPs in the health-care workforce and expansion of NP 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.
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Action Alert
We need you in this fight now, premier!
When we needed a full lockdown, the premier gave us something called a “shutdown.” Instead of the public measures necessary to curb the growth of dangerous COVID variants, we got word play.
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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.
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What’s the plan, premier?
Mass COVID-19 vaccinations are well underway in jurisdictions around the world. In Ontario, we have fallen behind.
NP policy documents
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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.
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Vision for Tomorrow: Fact Sheet
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Vision for Tomorrow: Fact Sheet
The Vision for Tomorrow fact sheet provides a select history of the NP role and RNAO advocacy, insight into the NP scope of practice, tangible examples of how NPs advance the quadruple aim and sustainable development goals, and more.
Other policy documents related to NPs:
- A message to Premier Ford and Minister Fullerton re: Jan 8, 2021 directives, February 2021
- 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
