Supporting Your Practice: CNA's New Tools and Resources

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Climate Change and Health A position statement on the role of nurses in supporting adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. Canadian nurses face a very real choice between getting involved now, by promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation, and waiting until the increasingly severe health effects of climate change are felt by the individuals, families and communities with whom they work.

Problematic Substance Use by Nurses

A position statement on a serious and complex issue that is a direct threat to the delivery of safe, competent, compassionate and ethical nursing care.

Sustaining the Workforce by Embracing Diversity

Policy brief #5: HHRP Issues - A Series of Options

This brief describes the growth of diversity in the Canadian population and suggests strategies to increase diversity in the health workforce.

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January - New Nursing Graduates

Return on Investment (ROI): Evidence for investing in nursing

Increasing health-care costs challenge the sustainability of our current health system. CNAs Return on Investment (ROI) research summaries provide evidence for strategies that invest in health care and save dollars at the same time.

ROI topics:

Nurses caring for children with asthma

In outpatient clinics, nurse-led followup of children with asthma is as effective as followup by a pediatrician, but the cost is 17.5 per cent lower when care is provided by nurses.

Nurse-led respiratory intermediate care teams

Using a respiratory intermediate care team led by nurse specialists to manage the care of patients at home reduces admissions and shortens the length of hospital stay, thereby reducing health system costs.

Cost of nurse turnover

The cost of nurse turnover is 1.2-1.3 times the annual salaries of registered nurses.

Registered nurses in nursing homes

Increasing the time that registered nurses spend providing direct care to residents of nursing homes from 10 minutes to 30-40 minutes per resident per day achieves net cost savings by reducing adverse outcomes.

Injury prevention in nursing homes

A "best practices" musculoskeletal injury prevention program in nursing homes reduces resident handling injuries and violence toward caregivers while showing a three-year recovery of the program costs through reduced workers' compensation costs.

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