NUR2-720 NURSING WORKFORCE DETERMINANTS

This seminar will not be offered at the 2012 winter session. It will be available for the 2013 winter session.

Registration

To register in the course, please contact:
Anna Santandrea
Programs Coordinator (Graduate, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral)
School of Nursing
Phone:  (514) 398-4151
Fax:  (514) 398-8455
anna.santandrea@mcgill.ca

Principal Collaborators

This course will be offered by a multidisciplinary team of professors and decision-makers led by the School of Nursing Faculty with others drawn from Faculty of Management and professors from Université de Montréal, DASUM, FSI. Dr. Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay Edgar, Nursing, will be the lead professor.

Introduction

Nurse researchers in the field of nursing resource development and nursing leaders must be cognizant of the forces that impact on and determine the nursing workforce, so that they may make strategic and successful decisions, and influence policy changes with regard to planning and managing the nursing workforce at both the health care supply unit level and the organizational level.  Factors affecting the planning and management of the nursing workforce must be recognized, in the context of forecasting models, demographic changes, public service organizational response, models of organizational behaviour, determinants of nursing sensitive outcomes, and productivity.

Winter Session
Regular course (English) - McGill University

General Objective

• Have students critically examine theoretical and methodological approaches to the development of human resources in the nursing profession, and establish links between the models and the conception of organizational changes in a broader social context.

Specific Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• See the difference between integrated models of human resource development and planning in nursing and current methods which take into account the context within which the nursing workforce operates;

• Identify the societal factors which influence the current and future state of human resources development in this profession;

• Compare theories about workforce recruitment and retention, absenteeism, turnover, professional burnout, and the quality of life associated to the nursing profession. This comparison will draw on current research to support the arguments made by these theories;

• Critically evaluate claims about the links between the nursing workforce and quality of life, and the outcomes for patients;

• Grasp the difficulties of identifying and implementing solutions to crises within the nursing workforce, taking into account the current and future changes within this workforce.

Teaching Approach

Students must actively participate in interactive presentations. For each class, the presenter will set the learning objectives and provide reference material in advance. Students must identify their personal learning objectives, give their comments on the presented material, and identify additional learning resources to bring to each class. They must be prepared for each presentation and must participate in the analysis and synthesis of the distributed documentation.