Health committee  Bonjour. I am Barb Mildon, a registered nurse and president-elect of the Canadian Nurses Association. On behalf of Canada's quarter-million nurses, I wish to thank the members of this committee for the opportunity to speak. As this committee is undoubtedly aware, there is compe

Health committee  Thank you very much, and I also thank you for your question. In our CNA brief, we speak to the scientific or research evidence that the programs you mention do make a difference. That can be demonstrated. The other thing I wanted to say is that your comments speak to the need to

Health committee  Thank you very much. I just wanted to add to the comments already that another important factor is what happens in terms of school health nursing. Unfortunately, we're seeing a trend that school health nursing is not as prevalent as it used to be. Yet school health nurses can w

Health committee  I'd like to add to what's already been spoken of. Number one, we want to commend recent federal initiatives such as the infrastructure Canada program that was introduced in 2009. It allows dedicated funding for building and improving recreational facilities. That is important.

Health committee  Thank you. It's a wonderful question. Certainly we see it across professions. Of course we have nurses, we have physicians, we have occupational therapists and nutritionists, all well represented today. We also need engineers, we need urban planners—the broad spectrum of professi

Health committee  Thank you very much. Just very quickly to your last question, I would add the example of patient safety, which has taken on such a huge profile lately, and rightfully so. When we brought in our engineers and our mechanics to look at devices, we realized that we could shift the

Finance committee  Bonjour. Good afternoon. As the president-elect of the Canadian Nurses Association, representing nearly 145,000 registered nurses from across the country, thank you for the opportunity to present the nursing profession's solutions for optimizing the health of our nation while im

Finance committee  My answer is definitely yes. We are seeing influence over time, and I do thank you on behalf of nurses in Canada for the effort put into the health accord and into the upcoming discussion on the new health accord. Really, what we're saying is that now the federal government can

Finance committee  Long, slow, expensive transformation.... I perhaps want to come back to this notion of health system indicators. The last accord did put measures in place that addressed key waiting list targets. Those are primarily for surgical and diagnostic procedures, but they have had an

Finance committee  Thank you, a very wonderful question. I want to take myself as an example. I graduated from a nursing program in Ontario and moved almost immediately to B.C. for my first job. There weren't jobs in Ontario at the time. I have moved back and forth between two provinces over most

Health committee  Good afternoon. On behalf of Canada's 250,000 registered nurses, thank you for the opportunity to speak to the important issue of chronic disease related to aging. CNA will be sending you a brief on this subject containing key recommendations and supporting evidence, but today I

Health committee  My apologies. I am so sorry. I didn't have my interpretation working properly and didn't understand the question.

Health committee  Thank you for the question. You are certainly right that the number of nurse practitioners is growing across our country, and they are providing primary care services, particularly in remote and rural communities. I would say that the most important thing they do is provide comp

Health committee  If I may just add, what a pleasure it is to hear my colleagues' responses. One example I would add is we've done it quite well with our community health centres, where it is a fully integrated interprofessional approach, including social workers, who bring their unique expertis

Health committee  Thank you very much. I will be brief. There are just three things I want to mention. First of all, we are certainly partnering with our other associations, and are very pleased with our recent collaboration with the CMA on transforming the health care system. There are document