HLST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Licensed Practical Nurse, Health Human Resources, Managed Care
25 Feb 2015
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Evolution of the health care division of labour: the health care division of labour in canada and u. s were similar, provision of care included aboriginal healers, religion orders (nuns as nurses), barber surgeons, and midwives. Immigration also brought people of other countries and their jurisdiction. Local educational programs began: first medical school- montreal, first nursing school- St. catherine: medical profession became the dominant health occupation in canada. Reforms directed towards who provides care: rationalize the health care division of labour is health synonymous with the term health human resource planning. Types of health care providers: ancillary and subordinate profession (women)- under the direct control of supervision by medicine. Limited professions- practicing independently of medicine but with a limited scope of practices. Chapter 12- provision of care: professions, politics, and profit: marginal or excluded profession- practicing outside of the mainstream medical system and denied official legitimacy.
