New strategies for monitoring the health of Canadian nurses: results of collaborations with key stakeholders.
Can J Nurs Leadersh. 2005;18(1):67-76, 78-81.
New strategies for monitoring the health of Canadian nurses: results of collaborations with key stakeholders.
‘Kerr MS, Laschinger HK, Severin CN, Almost JM, Shamian J.
School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario,
London, ON.’
The aim of this descriptive study was to help policy- and decision-makersenhance the health of the Canadian nursing workforce by highlighting key factorsof concern and exploring options for collecting and utilizing nurses’ healthdata. This paper describes the views of 62 nursing stakeholders from a diversespectrum of professional, labour, management and government perspectives fromacross Canada, regarding key factors contributing to work-related healthproblems in the nursing profession, particularly those relating to the workenvironment and hospital restructuring. The results were combined with asynthesis of existing information sources about the health of nurses in Canada.With respect to the key concerns, musculoskeletal conditions/injuries and stressand burnout were identified as nurses’ major work-related health problems. Anexamination of the data synthesis inventory revealed that no existing datasources can adequately profile nurses’ health, especially in relation to thecomponents of the Conceptual Model of Nurses’ Health developed in the study.Three strategies for monitoring nurses’ health are proposed.
MeSH Terms: – Age Factors – Algorithms – Canada – Data Collection – Health Status* – Humans – Interviews – Job Satisfaction – Nurses* – Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov’t – Stress/prevention & control
Publication Types: Review
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