Abstract

Evidence of acute nursing shortages in urban hospitals has been surfacing since 2000. Further, new graduate nurses account for more than 50% of total nurse turnover in some hospitals and between 35% and 60% of new graduates change workplace during the first year. Critical to organizational success, first line nurse managers must have the knowledge and skills to ensure the accurate projection of nursing resource requirements and to develop proactive recruitment and retention programs that are effective, promote positive nursing socialization, and provide early exposure to the clinical setting.

The Nursing Human Resource Planning Best Practice Toolkit project supported the creation of a network of teaching and community hospitals to develop a best practice toolkit in nursing human resource planning targeted at first line nursing managers. The toolkit includes the development of a framework including the conceptual building blocks of planning tools, manager interventions, retention and recruitment and professional practice models. The development of the toolkit involved conducting a review of the literature for best practices in nursing human resource planning, using a mixed method approach to data collection including a survey and extensive interviews of managers and completing a comprehensive scan of human resource practices in the participating organizations. This paper will provide an overview of the process used to develop the toolkit, a description of the toolkit contents and a reflection on the outcomes of the project.

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June 1, 2010

John Schinbein to Executive Director of Canadian Telehealth Forum — a COACH initiative
Joe Natale to Chief Commercial Officer, TELUS
Ruth Ackerman to President, Canadian Pharmacists Association
Bojan Pavlovic to Client Partner, Korn/Ferry International
Dr. Richard Reznick to Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the School of Medicine, Queen’s University
Paula Hucko to Vice President of Sales and Marketing, GoldCare — a division of Campana Systems Inc
Dr. Lynn Tomkins has been elected President of the Ontario Dental Association (ODA)

May 25, 2010

Martin Kabat to Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Cancer Society in Ontario
Debra McPherson re-elected as President British Columbia Nurses Union.
Janice Buchanan elected to Vice President British Columbia Nurses Union
Ron Bolton to the Board of the South West Local Health Integration Network, Ontario
Nizar Ladak to Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Secretary to The Ontario Health Quality Council (OHQC)
Dr. Andreas Laupacis an inaugural national award of the Jill M. Sanders Award of Excellence in Health Technology Assessment (HTA), presented by the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
Oliver Ernst to Canada Excellence Research Chair in Structural Neurobiology, University of Toronto
Matthew Farrer to Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurogenetics and Translational Neuroscience, The University of British Columbia
Michael Houghton to Canada Excellence Research Chair in Virology, University of Alberta
Adrian Owen to Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging, The University of Western Ontario
Patric Rorsman to Canada Excellence Research Chair in Diabetes, University of Alberta
Frederick Roth to Canada Excellence Research Chair in Integrative Biology, University of Toronto

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