Toward 2020 Vision For Nursing Summary

My critical discussion paper is focused on an issue of human health resources in Canada presented in “Toward 2020 Vision for Nursing”. This discussion paper will clarify the goals of the paper, evaluate writer’s views on proposed topic from different aspects and provide evidence of current research.
Summary
The project titled “Toward 2020 Vision for Nursing” is funded by Health Canada through Canadian Nursing Association. Michael Villeneuve and Jane MacDonald are the two principal investigators who conducted this future study to predict future nursing trends and health care system. This paper is prepared on the basis of interviews with Canadian within and beyond nursing as well as extensive literature review. Majority of this paper focused

Work nursing leaders from three different nurses such as RNs, LPNs and RPNs are working together on some national project but there is lack of comfortable and productive inter-dependent relationship. The group is not comfortable for a number of reasons. The major reason behind this one is the unequal numbers and powers within these three nurses groups. Due to higher in numbers (246,000) RNs can overrule the needs and concern of LPNs and RPNs. As RPN leaders like Manitoba’s Annette Osted and Marg Synshyn mentioned that context of any dialogue give the importance to the higher number of nurses. I agreed with this comment because if we look at history in any sector voice of larger group get higher priority and bigger group always dominate smaller group. It happened anywhere in the world and it’s just due to the human nature. I am positively inclined with writer ideas of moving collectively ahead to meet the upcoming health human resource demand. They also mentioned that working together will determine the success of nursing for future

Global migration will create huge impact in many sectors including health care sectors. Increased health professional mobility is creating huge disparities between developed and least economically developed countries. This will create negative impact on health care system of least developed countries. The expansion of global and regional trade agreement creates potential effect on the supply of health worker. While predicting the demographic diversity of Canada writers mentioned that the huge part of diverse population will come from non European immigration. However immigration not only play a role to create a racial diverse population but it also play an important role to full fill the increasing demand human health resource. (Little, 2007) study explore that majority of Canadian nurses migrate to United States of America due to low number of full time job in Canada resulted from health reform. Upcoming significant shortages of Nurses can be fulfilled by recruiting international nurses and immigration. Similarly, (Forcier, Simoens & Giuffrida, 2004) article mentioned that 25% of physician working in Canada are foreign trained physician. Particulalry Alberta and Saskatchewan have been actively recruiting primary care physicians from South Africa to full fill physician demand in remote areas. It indicates that immigration has great contribution to address the