Professional Associations:
Canadian Nurses Association: Nurse Practitioners, RPNs, RNs, & College of Physicians
- make connections between family members, resident and health care teams, i.e. geriatric assessments
- PD opportunities: keep on top of new research and research-based exemplary practices
- create a collaborative environment
- fufill the ethics of their profession and provincial governing bodies
- fulfill the obligations of the Health Care Consent Act
Societies & Support Groups:
Altzheimer Society | Hospice Support Groups in Canada
Government Agencies:
Ministry of Health & LTC | Local Health Integration Network (Ontario Regional Health Offices) |
Public Health Agency of
- provide stable funding indexed to inflation and population growth
- provide a stable adequate source of funding
- work on prevention, rather than cures
- provide a framework for stakeholder interactions and strategies for such discourse
- Ministers of health should undertake a dialogue
- provide adequate resources to stakeholders
- develop needs based budgets
- provide more P.D. activity opportunities
- publicize projects
Associations:
Non-Profit LTC Associations | For-Profit LTC Corporations
- create top-down policies, protocols and procedures
- monitors their individual homes
PSWs - A new association: unregulated group / organized by the Province
- provide province-wide acceptable practices for counsellors
- make library sources , books, articles, journals accessible
- publish reports
