12-Month Lobbying Summary - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Aboriginal Affairs
• Budget
• Climate
• Consumer Issues
• Education
• Employment and Training
• Environment
• Federal-Provincial Relations
• Health
• Housing
• Immigration
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Internal Trade
• International Relations
• International Trade
• Justice and Law Enforcement
• Labour
• Pensions
• Research and Development
• Science and Technology
• Sports
• Taxation and Finance
• Telecommunications
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• Seek funding for nursing research
• Seeking funding for the Nursing the Future initiative

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program

• Funding to support newly graduated nurses moving into professional practice for the first time
• Funding to support nursing certification across Canada to strengthen the safe delivery of expert care to older adults.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Amend Subsection 14 (2) of the Food and Drugs Act and Section C.01.048 (1) to add NPs and RNs to the list of physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons and pharmacists permitted to dispense drug samples
• Amendments to Bill C-7, an Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying). ensuring that new measures are clear, well defined and protect nurses who provide or assist in MAID procedures. Ensure regulations and guidance remain clear, specifically around consent and when death is not foreseeable.
• Bill C-3, an Act to amend the labour code and criminal code, with respect to protecting health-care workers.
• That the minister of health introduce legislation to modernize the Food and Drugs Act to remove barriers that prevent NPs and RNs from dispensing drug samples

Policies or Program

• $50 million over 4 years to establish a dedicated national coordinating body to address critical health workforce gaps and improve health system planning and workforce mobility through better data infrastructure
• Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.
• Create a health-care innovation agency of Canada
• Create and fund a harm reduction- based cannabis awareness campaign, including restrictions, education and resources for children, youth, pregnant mothers and those most vulnerable.
• Development of pan-Canadian standards for equal access, consistent quality, and necessary staffing, training and protocols for the long-term care sector, including home, community, and institutional settings, with increased funding and proper accountability measures and outcomes.
• Enhancing access to sustainable health human resources (HHR) to better serve rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Canada. As well as greater HHR coordination across Canada and inter professional collaboration. This also includes increasing virtual care modalities and broadband internet minimum speeds.
• Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.
• Improve community- and home-based health promotion
• Improving care in long-term care facilities through enhanced access to and provision of care from regulated nurses.
• Incorporate Primary Health Care (PHP) principles within a Health in All Policies approach
• Increase support to Canadians who provide care for aging relatives and friends.
• Increasing federal health transfers to the provinces and territories via a demographic top-up to meet the needs of Canada's aging population.
• Invest in strategies to prevent and mitigate the health effects of climate change
• Nursing-entry to practice
• Programs to support seniors and healthy aging
• Protection of public from the ongoing and growing threat of antimicrobial resistance
• Provide funding for a comprehensive, universal, public, affordable prescription medication coverage that ensures access in all health-care settings based on need and not the ability to pay
• Reinstate the position of a Chief Nursing Officer at the federal level, and support for CNO's in all provinces and territories.
• Requesting the federal government to create a one-time fund of $1.2 billion over four years via the Primary Care Transition Fund II to expand the establishment of primary care teams in each province and territory, with a special focus in remote and underserved communities.
• Review the Income Tax Act, List of Authorized Medical Practitioners to ensure all categories of nurses are easily identified.
• Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.
• Strengthening and creating programs to support illness prevention and health promotion, long term care, palliative care, home and community care, affordable housing and other social determinants of health
• Strengthening of programs and supports for vulnerable populations, including child health, senior's health and domestic maternal, newborn and child health strategy development.
• That the federal government lead efforts to educate health-care workers on the importance of medication safety and deprescribing
• That the minister of health create a public awareness campaign to bring attention to the scourge of counterfeit prescription drugs
• Urging the federal government to lead the development of and work with the provinces and territories to implement a pan-Canadian digital health strategy.

Policies or Program, Regulation

• Pandemic Planning and COVID-19: ensure all nurses are properly supported and protecting by ensuring appropriate stockpiling of PPE, support for mental health while on the front lines, support for nursing students, increased access to education and training when return to work or working in various care setting while responding to a pandemic, ensuring appropriate guidelines and resources are disseminated and developed and ensure senior nurses are part of discussions and advisory review boards during pandemics in planning phases as well as post pandemic in the review.
• Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice

• Subject matter details in previous versions

  Policies or Program

  • Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres
  • Establish a dedicated national coordinating body to address critical health workforce gaps and improve health system planning and workforce mobility through better data infrastructure
  • Strategies to address health human resources and nursing shortages across Canada.