Management Training: How Canadian Health Care Organizations Compare

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Loo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care

Management training has been receiving increasing attention over the past decade. The present study reports on a survey of 1,000 randomly selected Canadian organizations having at least 500 employees. Analysis of returns from 56 health care organizations and 169 other Canadian organizations yielded many notable findings. Only 36 percent of health care and 37 percent of other organizations report formal policies and procedures for management training. Fortunately, many health care organizations are evolving toward a more articulated and comprehensive approach to management training; however, the constraint of limited funds for training is frequently cited. Overall, both health care and other Canadian organizations recognize the importance of management training for achieving organizational goals and they are striving to improve such training.

scholarly journals Tobacco Control and Nicotine Addiction in Canada: Current trends, Management and Challenges

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew McIvor
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Nicotine Addiction ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care

Despite a significant decrease in tobacco use over the past four decades, cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death and disease in Canada. Nicotine addiction, unequal access to available support programs and gaps in continuity of health care are recognized as the main barriers to smoking cessation. To overcome these obstacles and to reach the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy goal of reducing smoking prevalence in Canada from 19% to 12% by 2011, several Canadian health care organizations developed extensive sets of recommendations. Improved access to affordable pharmacotherapies and behavioural counselling, better training of health care professionals and the addition of systemic cessation measures appear to be the key components in all of the proposed recommendations.The present article provides an overview of the current approaches to smoking cessation in Canada, describes the remaining challenges, and outlines recent recommendations that are geared toward not only tobacco control but also overall improvement in long-term health outcomes.

scholarly journals Quality of working life indicators in Canadian health care organizations: a tool for healthy, health care workplaces?

2005 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C. Cole ◽  
Lynda S. Robson ◽  
Louise Lemieux-Charles ◽  
Wendy McGuire ◽  
Claude Sicotte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care

scholarly journals The Impact of Health Care Restructuring on Nosocomial Infections and Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistant Organisms

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 271-274
Author(s):  
J Conly ◽  
Lynn Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
Outpatient Basis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care ◽  
The Impact

The past decade has seen a dramatic change in Canadian health care as the treatment of many patients shifts from the hospital setting to the home or other alternative health care settings (1). Complex advances in technology and significant changes in the funding environment have also precipitated many changes in the functional capacity of our health care system. The portion of the total Canadian health care expenditures that has been allocated to hospitals and other institutions has declined steadily over the past two decades (2,3). This reduction in institutional-based funding reflects the need to develop a system that improves the use of out-of-hospital sites for delivery of health care services and decreases reliance on the specific institutional component of the health care sector. Recent data reveal that Canadian hospital discharge rates have decreased by 14% between 1994 and 1998, and there has been a reduction in the length of stay from 7.4 to 7 days (4). In conjunction with a reduction in the number of hospital beds, there has been a massive shift in the proportion of surgeries that are performed on an outpatient basis. Further developments in the delivery of care include the increased use of telehealth, which allows health care professionals to provide increasingly complex services centralized hospital sites to outlying areas.

Continuous Quality Improvement: Status of Canadian Health Care Organizations

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Murphy ◽  
Kelly Grimes ◽  
Barbara Snasdell-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Council ◽  
Canadian Health Care ◽  
Year 2000

The Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation (CCHSA) surveyed its client groups to determine how involved they had become in continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities. This was a follow up to a 1992 survey. Most of the participating organizations indicated they had adopted a CQI philosophy. A major factor influencing this decision was the use of the CCHSA's client-centred standards. This article outlines the gains organizations have realized by implementing CQI, and the extent to which organizations have implemented CQI principles, methods and tools. The information from this survey has been used to develop the accreditation program for the year 2000 — “The AIM Project: Achieving Improved Measurement.”

First-Line Managers: Scope of Responsibility in a Time of Fiscal Restraint

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Acorn ◽  
Marilyn Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
First Line ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Hierarchical Levels ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Fiscal Restraint ◽  
Canadian Health Care

Fiscal restraint and government cost control have contributed to the downsizing and restructuring of Canadian health care organizations. As key players in the hospital sector, the role and responsibilities of first-line nurse managers have been significantly affected by these changes. This paper presents data from a survey of 200 first-line nurse managers in British Columbia which investigated the current scope of the first-line manager's role, the number of hierarchical levels within nursing departments, and views on managerial union membership.

Policies and Procedures in the Workplace: How Health Care Organizations Compare

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Loo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Stress Management Training ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Impact

Many organizations are implementing programs and services to manage the human and economic costs of stress. A mail survey was conducted of 500 randomly selected Canadian organizations having at least 500 employees. The survey tapped four major areas: organizational policies and procedures for managing stress; programs and services offered; perceived benefits and constraints for the organization; and projected future directions in this area. Analyses of returns from 210 organizations — 43 health and 167 non-health — revealed various findings. For example, over half of health care organizations have policies and procedures as opposed to less than half of non-health care organizations. Also, health care organizations place greater emphasis on smoking cessation, weight control programs and on stress management training. Although some Canadian organizations are addressing stress, much more could and should be done, especially by organizations that do not yet recognize the impact of stress on employees and their work performance.

The Canadian Health Care Conundrum

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
BRYAN R. FINE
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Canadian Health Care
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