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Featured policy documents
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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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Work and wellbeing survey
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Work and wellbeing survey
This report summarizes the response to RNAO’s Work and Wellbeing Survey. It tells the story of nurses and a nursing workforce under considerable stress and strain as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey reveals that the effective functioning of Ontario’s health system is at risk post-pandemic. The magnitude of potential departures by retirement or by changes in career paths calls for an immediate response from health system employers and government
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Nursing home basic care guarantee
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Nursing home basic care guarantee (NHBCG)
In its submission to the government’s Staffing Study Advisory Group, RNAO calls on the government to provide a minimum of four worked hours of nursing and personal support care to each nursing home resident, each day. The Nursing Home Basic Care Guarantee also sets out the appropriate staffing skill mix to provide for safe and dignified care for aging residents with increasingly complex conditions. The guarantee includes other recommendations for infection prevention and control necessary for the care of Ontario’s 79,000 nursing home residents.
