Nursing Leadership, Organization and Policy
Staffing For Safety
With thousands of patient deaths in Canadian hospitals linked to preventable adverse events, patient safety has become a pressing concern in Canadian health policy.
Fortunately, a great many resources exist to help improve the quality of nurse staffing decisions. These resources include new research reports, but also the sharing of managers’ and policy makers’ experiences — knowledge from those who work in this area in Canadian healthcare systems.
Nurse Staffing and Patient Safety Knowledge Network - initiative supported by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Canadian Federation of Nurses Union and the Canadian Nurses Association
Improving nurse retention through professional development
Find out how a Toronto hospital network is using professional development for nurses to improve their research capacity and, thus, their satisfaction and retention in "If you build it, they will stay: How a hospital network is using evidence to guide a professional development-based approach to nurse retention and patient care," fall 2007 issue of Promising Practices.
New Knowledge
The Foundation has supported a number of studies demonstrating the importance of appropriate nurse staffing.