CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION/ASSOCIATION DES INFIRMIERES ET INFIRMIERS DU CANADA(CNA)
Registration:
61
of
94
(2019-04-01
to
2019-08-01)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- Receive funding for and report on funding from project on regulatory licensing exams for internationally educated nurses discussion paper
- Seek funding for nursing research
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
- 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
- A harm reduction- based cannabis awareness campaign
- Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Aboriginal healing centres
- Create a health-care innovation agency of Canada
- Enhancing access to sustainable health human resources to better serve rural, remote and Indigenous communities across Canada
- Health Human Resources - greater coordination, creation of HHR Observatory and greater interprofessional collaboration.
- Impact of ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement on health care and the sustainability of the health system
- Improve access to palliative care and support for caregivers
- Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for Indigenous Peoples
- Improve community- and home-based health promotion
- Incorporate Primary Health Care (PHP) principles within a Health in All Policies approach
- Increase support to Canadians who provide care for aging relatives
- Invest in strategies to prevent and mitigate the health effects of climate change
- Nursing-entry to practice
- Programs to support seniors and healthy aging
- 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
- 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