Position Statements
| Title |
Date |
Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gun Control | 2010-02-22 |
Firearm-related injury and death is a significant public health and safety issue, and gun control is a mechanism for prevention. Tighter gun control restrictions were introduced in Canada in 1991, two years following the 1989 Montreal Massacre that galvanized Canadians, women in particular, to lobby for greater gun control. |
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| Hospital Funding | 2009-04-01 |
There is increasing discussion in health policy circles across the country about changing the way hospitals are funded. We believe that in a single-payer system, activity-based funding will drive up costs and transfer wait times for one procedure to another. |
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| Hallway Nursing | 2009-03-13 |
The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions supports the abolishment of hallway nursing. As members of the Quality Worklife – Quality Healthcare Collaborative (QWQHC), we reject the practice of hallway nursing because it contradicts the indicator of a healthy workplace defined as: |
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| Internationally Educated Nurses | 2009-03-13 |
In an attempt to address the chronic shortage of registered nurses in Canada, provincial governments and regional health authorities have embarked on aggressive international recruitment campaigns. |
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| Mandatory Overtime | 2009-02-12 |
Mandatory overtime is a complex issue and a challenging one to address for several reasons. The inextricable link between mandatory overtime and professional practice and ethics makes this issue so important and at the same time so rarely addressed. Practically speaking, the consistency and clarity of language and definitions used to describe such circumstances also present a challenge due to variation across collective agreements. |
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| Nurse-Patient Ratios | 2007-06-17 |
Canada is faced both with a serious nursing shortage, which will worsen over the next few years, and ongoing problems related to the retention and recruitment of nurses. |
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| Staffing for Pandemic | 2007-06-03 |
Planning for a pandemic becomes more challenging given the lack of surge capacity within the system, resulting from the current shortage of nurses and other health care professionals, the known practices of working part time in more than one location, and overtime and absenteeism due to illness within the health system, which certainly increase during a pandemic. |
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| Racism and Racial Discrimination in the Workplace | 2007-05-24 |
Every health care worker has a right to be free from racial discrimination in the workplace. |
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| Respect and Dignity | 2007-05-24 |
The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions believes that all employees are entitled to work in an environment where everyone is treated equal and that is free from harassment. Everyone should be treated with respect and dignity. |
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| Psychological Violence in the Workplace (Bullying) | 2007-03-29 |
Psychological violence or bullying in the workplace is on the rise in Canada. In 2000, a survey of Canadian unions documented that more than 75% of those surveyed reported incidents of harassment and bullying at work. |
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