Registered Nurse Human Resources
Welcome to the health human resources (HHR) section of the CNA website. Here you will find a wealth of CNA resources on the factors that shape HHR for Canada’s registered nurses, nurse practitioners and other health professionals.
In addition, you will find links that will take you to other essential readings in nursing human resources as produced by governments, administrators, researchers, non-governmental organizations and other parties interested in the current state of HHR and nursing in Canada.
To help you in your information search, CNA has organized the presentation of documents in this section according to a comprehensive conceptual HHR model1. This model recognizes that HHR must be matched as closely as possible to the health-care needs of Canadians.
The main components of this model make up the corresponding categories for CNA and related documents in this section:
- Population health needs are the characteristics of individuals that create the demand for
curative and preventative health services. Health needs are influenced by social, cultural,
political, contextual, geographical, environmental and financial factors.
Click here for the references on population health needs.
- Health system design is set to meet population health needs.
Governments in partnerships with health-care administrators and other stakeholders
determine the delivery models (e.g., primary health care and acute care facilities)
as well as the required level of services.
Click here for the references on health system design.
- Planning and forecasting covers the HHR planning practices and models used to
predict human and other resource requirements. These practices and models are
shaped
by HHR supply, the available financial resources for the purchase of human and
other resources, the production of educated and trained health-care providers
as well as the management, organization and delivery of health services.
Click here for the references on planning and forecasting.
- Resource deployment and utilization represents the amount and nature of
the resources provided and used to provide health services that meet the health
needs of the population at large. The ultimate goal of resource deployment
and utilization decisions is to achieve an efficient mix of human and
non-human
resources that leads to the best health, provider and system outcomes.
Click here for the references on resource deployment and utilization.
CNA documents are arranged chronologically from most recent to oldest. Related documents are arranged first alphabetically by author, and secondly by date.
The model and the descriptions of each component are adapted from those cited in Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee on Health Delivery and Human Resources, A Framework for Collaborative Pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Planning (September 2005), pages 29-34, retrieved from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/alt_formats/ccs-scm/pdf/public-consult/col/hhr-rhs/PanCanHHR_Framework_sept-05_e.pdf
