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  • Creating a Healthier Society: RNAO's Challenge to Ontario's Political Parties
    May 9, 2007

    RNAO’s Challenge to Ontario’s Political Parties: Building Medicare’s next stage, focusing on prevention.

  • Response to HPRAC's New Directions Report
    July 7, 2006

    The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional organization for registered nurses who practice in all roles and sectors across Ontario. Our mandate is to advocate for healthy public policy and for the role of registered nurses in serving the public. It is in the context of this mandate that RNAO is pleased to provide feedback to the Ministry on HPRAC’s New Directions Report.

  • Ensuring the Care Will Be There: Report on Nursing Recruitment and Retention in Ontario
    January 10, 2006

    Ensuring The Care Will Be There: A Report on Recruitment and Retention in Ontario addresses key issues for Ontario nurses and the public. This Recruitment and Retention Report is a response to an imminent and severe nursing shortage across Canada.

  • The 70 Per Cent Solution: A progress report on increasing full-time employment for Ontario RNs
    June 14, 2005

    Since 2000, RNAO has advocated for 70 per cent full-time (FT) employment for RNs in the province of Ontario (RNAO, 2000). Other key reports have also recommended moving to 70 per cent FT as a minimum target. For example, the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee’s (CNAC) 2002 report entitled: Our Health, Our Future: Creating Quality Workplaces for Canadian Nurses recommends: “Governments, employers and unions should collaborate to increase the proportion of nurses working full-time to at least 70 per cent of the workforce in all healthcare settings by April 2004, with an improvement of at least 10 per cent to be completed by January 2003.”

  • Nursing Workload Measurement Systems - A Discussion of the Issues
    March 11, 2005

    The work performed by nurses is essential to the well being of patients and clients accessing the healthcare system. Registered nurses provide the greatest hours of care and coordinate the care provided by other healthcare providers. They are the primary interface between the patient and the health care system.

  • Elder Health Framework
    January 7, 2005

    The purpose of an elder health framework is to identify the essential elements that must be addressed in the development of provincial policy and integrated services for older persons in Ontario. It outlines the principles and policy directions that must be considered in any decision that affect older persons in Ontario.

  • SARS Unmasked
    September 29, 2003

    The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) has prepared this submission to the Independent Commission to Investigate the Introduction and Spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) to ensure nurses’ voices are heard. The submission is a snapshot of RNAO’s full report to be released later this year.

  • The RN(EC)-GP Relationship: A Good Beginning
    May 22, 2003

    The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) are interested in defining effective strategies, which can then be used to optimize the working relationships between General Practitioners (GPs) and Nurse Practitioners with the RN(EC) designation RN(EC)s or NPs. (Note: In the report the terms RN(EC) and NP are used interchangeably in all cases the individual has an RN(EC) designation).

  • Survey of Casual and Part-Time Registered Nurses in Ontario
    May 12, 2003

    In recent years, upwards of half of working RNs have not had full-time employment. This is a most unusual circumstance for any profession, and serves as a stark contrast with other jurisdictions, like the US, where 71.6% of RNs are full-time. This disproportionate amount of part-time and casual work is a threat to the quality of patient care, to the viability of the health care system, and to the nursing profession itself.

  • RNAO responds to Romanow Commission Report
    December 2, 2002

    RNAO strongly endorses the final report of the Romanow Commission, Building on Values: The Future of Health Care in Canada. Commissioner Romanow began his work clarifying Canadians’ values and ended his work with recommendations based on the best available evidence. Indeed, the report’s recommendations are based in solid evidence, gleaned through extensive consultation, research and analysis over the past eighteen months. This is a report that reflects the overwhelming views and values of most Canadians, including Ontario nurses.