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Strategic Visioning

RNAO Visionary Leadership - 2014

Tue, 07/15/2014 - 00:00 -- nhalper

Charting a course for the health system and nursing in Ontario: The Future

What will Ontario’s health system look like in five, 10 or 15 years from now? What kind of care will people need in the future? The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) believes it’s important to look down the road today, and begin planning for tomorrow’s health system.This is why Ontario's nurses have developed a bold vision.

Valuing Patient Safety. Responsible Workforce Design - 2014

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 00:00 -- nhalper
The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and the CFNU are actively working with Accreditation Canada and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute on the quality and safety agenda. Together, we have produced a document based on roundtable discussions with patients and their families, nursing leaders, direct care nurses, nurse union representatives and researchers.

Towards Health Equity. Canadian Approaches to the Health Sector Role - 2014

Tue, 04/01/2014 - 00:00 -- nhalper
This report was prepared as part of Canada’s contribution to the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion, to illustrate the roles that the health sector can play in advancing health equity—both through integrating health equity into the policies, programs and practices of the health sector as well as through collaboration with other sectors.

Ontario Hospital Association (OHA)

Wed, 01/01/2014 - 00:00 -- nhalper
Since its inception in 1924, the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) has helped shape and influence health care policy in Ontario.  Today, most Ontarians take publicly funded, universal health care for granted.  Yet in 1941, many years before the Canada Health Act was passed, the OHA recognized the need for affordable health care and thus created Ontario Blue Cross.  OHA staff were also instrumental in the Ontario government’s creation of the body which ultimately became the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP).  Then, out of OHIP came the Department

Shared Action Towards a Canadian Health Leadership Strategy Framework: A Working Paper - 2014

Wed, 01/01/2014 - 00:00 -- nhalper
The purpose of the working paper is to begin a national dialogue on what concerted action needs to be taken to enhance leadership capacity across Canada and throughout the system, one of Canadian Health Leadership Network's (CHLNet) four new strategic directions. It is intended to form a foundation for an evidence-informed conversation among Canada’s health care leaders. It builds in and upon a four-year, longitudinal series of six case studies spearheaded by CHLNet that examine the crucial role of leadership in health system reform. 

The Nurse Executive Role in Quality and High Performing Health Services - 2013

Sun, 09/01/2013 - 00:00 -- nhalper
In complex and rapidly changing healthcare environments, nurse executives are challenged to lead within organisational systems to fulfill regulatory, health consumer (patient), family, physician and staff expectations, and provide excellence in nursing and midwifery practice across care environments (Parsons & Cornett, 2011; The Kings Fund, 2011; Patton & Pawar, 2012). 
 
Nurse executives are in a unique position to influence change in healthcare and the quality of patient care by virtue of their

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