Full-time/part-time employment of nurses in small hospitals in rural and northern Ontario

Full-Time/Part-Time Employment of Nurses in Small Hospitals in Rural and Northern Ontario: Current Status, Issues and Options iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors thank the Chief Nursing Officers who took time from their hectic schedules to be interviewed, to the nurses who kindly responded to the survey, and to members of both focus groups for their insights, concerns, and ideas. [...] We thank the Ontario Nurses Association and the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario for their assistance in pre-testing the survey questionnaire, and the College of Nurses of Ontario for their assistance with drawing the sample of nurses for the survey whose findings are presented in Appendix 4. We would like to thank the Canadian Institute for Health Information for permitting a me [...] Full-Time/Part-Time Employment of Nurses in Small Hospitals in Rural and Northern Ontario: Current Status, Issues and Options vii Full-Time/Part-Time Employment of Nurses in Small Hospitals in Rural and Northern Ontario: Current Status, Issues and Options viii 1.0 INTRODUCTION Throughout the 1990s the overall proportion of full-time RNs and RPNs declined in Ontario and the percentage of nurses wor [...] In 1998, the Ontario Government established the Nursing Task Force (NTF) to “examine the impact of health care reform on both the delivery of nursing services and the nursing profession in Ontario and to recommend strategies to ensure and enhance quality of care through effective use of nursing human resources” (Implementation Monitoring Subcommittee of the Joint Provincial Nursing Committee, 2001 [...] This report presents a literature review of research pertaining to the supply of nurses in Ontario and their employment status, the methods used for each of the five components of the study, findings from each component, and recommendations from Chief Nursing Officers and nursing leaders concerning the 70% full-time employment policy and increasing full-time employment in small hospitals.