| Saturday, 22 July 2006: 8:15 AM-9:45 AM | |||
| Health Human Resource Modeling: Challenging the Past, Creating the Future | |||
| Learning Objective #1: improve understanding of the dynamic nature of the needs for, and provision and management of, nursing human resources. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: develop a sense of how changes in population health needs, nursing resource productivity, and nurse retention can have a dramatic impact on nursing human resources. | |||
| This program of research addresses the dynamic nature of the needs for, and provision and management of, nursing human resources. The program involves partnerships between decision-makers, policy-makers, and researchers from Ontario, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan. Our goal is to enhance existing demographic focused approaches by explicit consideration of the following interrelated sub-themes: [1]Population Health: changes in the levels and distribution of health over time; [2]Nursing and the Health Care Production Function: changes in the contribution of nursing inputs to health care delivery over time; and [3]Nurse Retention: changes in the opportunities and constraints facing qualified nurses and understanding decisions and intentions to leave or remain in the nursing profession. The overall program is made up of three separate but related projects. Project 1 explores the dynamic nature of the level and distribution of health needs in the population to inform planning processes about changes in needs over time and the implications for nursing resources. Project 2 explores the dynamic nature of the contribution of nursing resources to the delivery of health care services to inform planning processes about the efficient use of nurses in the delivery of hospital care. Project 3 explores the dynamic nature of the opportunities and constraints facing qualified nurses and will inform decision-makers about the key determinants of retention and recruitment. The relationships between changes in need; productivity; and intent of nurses to stay, leave, or take early retirement are examined within the context of a broader conceptual model. | |||
| Organizer: | Linda L. O'Brien-Pallas, RN, PhD, FCAHS | ||
| Changes in Population Health Needs over Time Gail Tomblin Murphy, RN, PhD | |||
| Nursing and the Health Care Production Function Stephen Birch, PhD | |||
| Retention of Practicing Nurses Linda L. O'Brien-Pallas, RN, PhD, FCAHS | |||