Michael Villeneuve
Toronto
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A Commentary on Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare (SBNH) and SBNH
Featured Current Issue Past Issues Special Issues Masthead For Authors Nursing Leadership 36(4) April 2024 : 81-87.doi:10.12927/cjnl.2024.27305 The Future of Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership Laurie N. Gottleib and Michael J. Villeneuve Introduction The global social upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with the peak of the last wave of the baby boom generation moving into their sixties, quickly wreaking havoc among workforces and economies around the world.
Shifting Sands: A View from the Centre in 2021
Nursing Leadership 34(4) December 2021 : 118-123.doi:10.12927/cjnl.2021.26681 After decades of growth and relative stability in professional nursing across the country, events of the past decade have generated unease across the profession as the very existence of some of our institutions is threatened. In this commentary, we describe factors leading to the erosion of historic membership models that were the backbone of professional nursing representation in Canada.
Canada’s Top 5 in 5
Featured Current Issue Past Issues Special Issues Masthead For Authors Healthcare Quarterly 16(3) July 2013 : 14-16.doi:10.12927/hcq.2013.23505 Abstract In 2011, the Canadian Nurses Association made a decision to establish and fund a national commission focused on health system transformation, the National Expert Commission.
The Unnecessary Dangers Patients Face Every Day
By Linda Silas and Michael Villeneuve — National Newswatch — May 9 2022 The federal budget contained no significant funds to confront Canada’s crisis-level nursing shortage – and that means Canadian patients in hospitals and long-term care will continue to face unnecessary danger every day. It might be helpful to look at this problem from a different perspective. When West Jet was hit with severe COVID-19 staffing shortages, they cancelled 15 per cent of their flights.
The Canadian Academy of Nursing: Why It Matters
Abstract The Canadian Academy of Nursing (the Academy) was established in 2019 to provide a focal point for nursing leadership in Canada that had been missing among the 40+ specialty practice and interest groups affiliated with the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). More than 41,000 regulated nurses work in formal administration or management leadership roles, and many of them have shared a worrying array of self-identified gaps in leadership skills and development.
Investing in primary care as our first – and last – line of defence is more relevant than ever - iPolitics
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is timely to discuss the fundamentals of an effective health care system. Against a backdrop of health professionals mobilizing to meet the needs of Canadians, we need to re-think how we provide and deliver care to Canadians.
The Canadian Nurses Association: Reflections on the NCLEX-RN through the Lens of Nursing History and Evolution
Abstract Decades of work by professional associations, regulators and educators have produced an ethical, reliable, robustly educated and regulated nursing workforce that enjoys high levels of respect in Canada and around the world.
When You Know Better, Do Better
Abstract As the world prepares to celebrate the remarkable life and contributions of Florence Nightingale on her 200th birthday in 2020, the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) is putting the pieces in place to host an entire new pillar of programs and services focused on leadership for all regulated nurses across Canada. First among these is our relationship with the Dorothy Wylie Health Leaders Institute (DWHLI), which has built a partnership with CNA since 2015.
Nursing professionalization and welfare state policies: A critical review of structural factors influencing the development of nursing and the nursing workforce - Gunn - - Nursing Inquiry - Wiley Online Library
Nursing professionalization is both ongoing and global, being significant not only for the nursing workforce but also for patients and healthcare systems. For this reason, it is important to have an in‐depth understanding of this process and the factors that could affect it.
Nurses Need Doug Ford To Stand Up For Long-Term Care
Whatever direction incoming Premier Doug Ford may choose for long-term care in Ontario, he faces a juggernaut ahead. For too long, long-term care has limped along as the ever-poor and dowdy cousin to acute care. Andrew Francis Wallace via Getty Images Ontario Premier-elect Doug Ford speaks to media outside the Whitney Block, near Queen's Park.
Better Health, Better Care, Better Value: National Expert Commission, Part 1
Better Health, Better Care, Better Value: National Expert Commission, Part 1 Since about the midway point of the First Ministers' 10-year plan to strengthen healthcare, its impending expiry in 2014 has prompted the leading health professions to consider "what comes next," how to influence that decision and then, how best to position their messages in the politics of whatever might emerge.
4 Essentials to managing seasonal inventories
When it comes to managing inventory and supply chains in today’s competitive world, Canadians have it tough. With over 5,000 kilometers from coast to coast and a highly decentralized population spread across 9,984 square kilometers of land, it’s not always easy to have the right inventory at the right place at the right time.
Perspectives on Nursing Policy
When she took over the helm as its new editor-in-chief, Lynn Nagle commented that the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership could function as one vehicle "to facilitate and support the dialogues that can drive strategy and policy development."1 To help bring that goal to life, I am honoured to join Lynn, my co-editors Greta Cummings and Patricia Petryshen and the talented Longwoods team in the role of editor for the journal’s policy and innovation pillar of work.
Perspectives on Nursing Policy
Featured Current Issue Past Issues Special Issues Masthead For Authors Nursing Leadership 23(2) June 2010 : 12-15.doi:10.12927/cjnl.2010.21828 When she took over the helm as its new editor-in-chief, Lynn Nagle commented that the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership could function as one vehicle "to facilitate and support the dialogues that can drive strategy and policy development."1 To help bring that goal to life, I am honoured to join Lynn, my co-editors Greta Cummings and Patricia...
Perspectives on Nursing Policy
Featured Current Issue Past Issues Special Issues Masthead For Authors Nursing Leadership 23(2) June 2010 : 12-15.doi:10.12927/cjnl.2010.21828 When she took over the helm as its new editor-in-chief, Lynn Nagle commented that the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership could function as one vehicle "to facilitate and support the dialogues that can drive strategy and policy development."1 To help bring that goal to life, I am honoured to join Lynn, my co-editors Greta Cummings and Patricia...
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