Health committee  In terms of your question around models of nursing education, we recognize that there is a shortage of nursing faculty. The faculty is aging, and so on. There is beginning to be work looking at different models, such clinical scholars and so on. We know that in nursing we have an

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  That's under way.

Health committee  Yes, it is.

Health committee  We didn't.

Health committee  I think one of the things that also was helpful to me, and it may or may not be to you, is there is a pan-Canadian planning framework that identifies all of the elements of health human resources planning that will lead us to the outcomes we want to get at the patient care provid

Health committee  I don't know, but I know that when we started our program of research eight years ago, I used that framework to do the literature review. That's how we began to identify where we wanted to zero in on the elements of the research that we felt needed to be done. It identified where

Health committee  I agree. I think there are two issues in health human resources. One of them is the scope of practice and the optimized utilization of professionals; the other is the service delivery model and the way in which care is organized. One can't really be fully looked at without the ot

Health committee  I can't speak to all of the groups, but certainly when we ask a number of different health professionals if they believe they have knowledge and skill that they can bring to the improvement of health outcomes but that are not being tapped into, a majority of them will say yes. I

Health committee  Yes, obviously, I do think that we would be better off to have a pan-Canadian strategy. I think the research studies done in Alberta or in Quebec or wherever in many instances have applicability elsewhere. Context is very important when we're talking about professional practice

Health committee  Is it a priority? I can't answer that. Where the needs of patients' families determine they should be members of the team, there should be more opportunity than what we have. But we also need to use the opportunities we have to do more prevention. All members of the team working

Health committee  As far as I'm concerned, I can say yes. However, that has not changed much to date. We try to bring up these issues in every possible forum. There is a lack of vision with respect to what we call the scope of practice, whether it be for nurses, doctors or others, throughout Cana

Health committee  Good afternoon. I am very pleased to be here to represent the Health Council of Canada. I believe that members of the committee have received our briefing note, so I am just going to speak to a few of the points that were made in there. In my day job I am a researcher in Calga

Health committee  I have nothing to add.

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