Across Newfoundland and Labrador, the need for long-term care is growing, while the nursing workforce is aging and shrinking. At the same time, costs are rising and the provincial government has reduced funding for the sector. These shifts have led regional health authorities to seek ways to...
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Evaluating nursing staff mix decisions in long-term care
In Ontario, the challenges of navigating a complex health-care system have been addressed with the formation of local health integration networks (LHINs) and the use of community care access centres (CCACs), hospital discharge planners and telehealth services. The addition of approximately 150...
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Better access to health care through system navigation
The restructuring of critical care services in our city triggered two major changes. The first was the merging of three critical care units into two. The second was the consolidation of two well-established cardiac surgery teams, with a total of seven surgeons, at one hospital site at the London...
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A shared staffing model for two critical care environments
The University of British Columbia school of nursing introduced the multiple mini-interview (MMI) in spring 2008 as a part of the admission process for the two-year baccalaureate nursing program. In previous years, the more traditional paired-faculty interview had been used to select candidates for...
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Using multiple mini-interviews to assess nursing school applicant