HE302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Palliative Care, Chevrolet Hhr, Canadian Nurses Association
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Romanow chapter 4 investing in health care providers. Targeted funds in the proposed rural and remote access fund & the diagnostic services. Fund should be used to fast-track action in addressing pressing problems in rural and remote communities and increase the supply of technicians and specialists to provide diagnostic services and improve canadians" access to important tests. Nurses make up 35% of the health workforce while physicians make up 8% Much of the concern relates to real and perceived shortages for certain health care providers (concern for nurses especially because their numbers have dropped in recent years) Persistent low morale has an impact on quality of patient care (physicians tend to have more direct control over their working conditions than do nurses) Since 1991 the ration of nurses to patient steadily declined: canada"s rate of nurses per capita is low in comparison to scandinavian countries but higher than in spain, greece or united kingdom.
