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CFNU
Friday, Jan 27 2012
Silas comments on new CIHI numbers
The latest Canadian Institute for Health Information data shows that the total number of RNs and LPNs in the country continues to rise. Hopefully, this trend will continue or even accelerate so that we can reclaim the nurse to population ratio we had in the early 1990s. This becomes all the more important as the average age of nurses continues to increase...
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Wednesday, Jul 20 2011
CFNU commissioned this update by Informetrica Ltd. to identify trends in overtime and absenteeism among nurses across Canada. Read the document "Quick Facts: Overtime and Absenteeism." here.
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Wednesday, Jun 15 2011
Read
Trends in Own Illness or Disability-Related Absenteeism and Overtime among Publicly-Employed Registered Nurses: Quick Facts
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Thursday, Jun 11 2009
Vancouver - (June 11, 2009) - More nurses are working more overtime, shows a new report prepared by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions. There are more nurses being injured or becoming ill, resulting in rising rates of absenteeism and overtime. The study, prepared by Infometrica, updates their previous studies on rates of overtime and absenteeism in the nursing workforce and provides further...
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Monday, Jun 1 2009
The information below was derived from the Labour Force Survey for 2005 and 2008. Special tabulations of the Labour Force Survey were conducted by Informetrica Limited for the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (June 2009).
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Monday, Jun 1 2009
Trends in Own Illness or Disability-Related Absenteeism and Overtime among Publicly-Employed Registered Nurses: Summary of Key Findings. Prepared for Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU), June 2009
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Thursday, Feb 12 2009
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...
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Wednesday, Jun 18 2008
20.8% of nurses are over 55 and nearing retirement, while Canadian nurses are already working over 18 million hours of overtime – equivalent to 10,000 full-time nursing positions. In spite of a plethora of studies which call for immediate action, little is being done to address the nursing shortage crisis.
