The report sheds light on the unique challenges facing the nursing profession and presents a coordinated series of collectively planned, carefully sequenced, and evidence-based solutions to retain, return, integrate and recruit nurses both in the short- and medium-term targeted to support the nursing workforce across their career-course. It also suggests complementary strategies to embed cyclical planning, enhancing nursing workforce data and enabling nursing stakeholders and policy decision makers to decision-support platforms that would support better planning for the nursing workforce across sectors and jurisdictions.

Kevin MD podcast with Ivy Bourgeault, Oct. 8th 2022

The Canadian Academy of Health Sciences appointed co-chairs Harrison Applin, PhD, RN, FCAN, Ivy Bourgeault, PhD, FCAHS, Luigi Lepanto, MD, MSc, FRCP(C), and Chris Simpson, BSc, MD, FRCPC, FACC, FHRS, FCCS, FCAHS to the Assessment on Health Human Resources commissioned by Health Canada. March 2022