Governance

The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN)

The Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses represents the voice of nursing leadership in Canada. Founded over thirty years ago, ACEN was created as a network of chief nursing officers of major teaching hospitals and deans and directors of Schools of nursing.

OHA: Quality and Patient Safety Governance Toolkit for Hospital Boards in Ontario

The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), its Governance Centre of Excellence (GCE), and Health Quality Ontario (HQO) are pleased to present the Quality and Patient Safety Governance Toolkit, an online resource for hospital boards in Ontario. This unique resource is designed as a set of practical templates and tools organized into these five sections:

American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE)

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) provides leadership, professional development, advocacy and research to advance nursing practice and patient care, promote nursing leadership excellence and shape public policy for health care nationwide. AONE is a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association.

Mission - To shape health care through innovative and expert nursing leadership
Vision - Global Nursing

The Initiative on the Future of Nursing

The Initiative on the Future of Nursing is rooted in the recommendations of the 2010 landmark report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Through the Initiative, RWJF continues to support the research agenda set forth by the report and implement the recommendations in the areas of nurse training, education, professional leadership, and workforce policy.

Regulatory Board Governance Toolkit - 2014

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has held a clear position about the importance of regulation in assuring safe and competent nursing practice in order to protect the public since its inception more than 100 years ago. ICN recognises that the regulation of nurses is carried out to ensure that the public receives safe and ethical nursing care from competent nurses.

Nurses: A Force for Change. A Vital Resource for Health - 2014

An educated nurse workforce + a good work environment = high quality care. This simple, evidence based, equation whether applied at a global or a local level in the health system is fundamental to understanding how to make the best of the vital resource which is nursing.

Introduction
Seeing the Big Picture
Workforce Planning
Nursing Workload Measurement
The Importance of Work Environment
Improving Learning and Outcomes
Key Considerations

Ontario Hospital Association (OHA)

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

Assessing the Professional Development Needs of Experienced Nurse Executive Leaders - 2014

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify the professional development topics that senior nurse leaders believe are important to their advancement and success.

BACKGROUND: Senior/experienced nurse leaders at the executive level are able to influence the work environment of nurses and institutional and health policy. Their development needs are likely to reflect this and other contemporary healthcare issues and may be different from middle and frontline managers.

HealthForceOntario: Interprofessional Care

Interprofessional Care is the provision of comprehensive health services to patients by multiple health care professionals who work collaboratively to deliver the best quality of care in every health care setting. It encompasses partnership, collaboration and a multi-disciplinary approach to enhancing care outcomes and is the cornerstone of the HealthForceOntario strategy.

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

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.

Nurse Executive Leader Toolkit

Transforming nursing through knowledge