4c Health Human Resources Flashcards
How many Canadians work in health and social services?
> 1.5 million people across Canada
1 in 10 Canadians (?)
What amount of our health care spending represents compensation for service delivery?
70 cents of every dollar (70%)
How many classifications of medical specialists are there?
Over 35 classifications of medical specialists
How many surgical specialist classifications are there?
Over 12 surgical specialist classifications
What are the two largest health professions?
Nursing and medicine
What are three types of professional groups?
Professional association (ARNBC) Regulatory body (CRNBC) Collective bargaining association (BCNU)
How many regulatory colleges are under the Health Professions Act in BC?
22 regulatory colleges
What does the self-regulating of professions accomplish?
Allows government to have some control over the profession’s activities, without having to maintain in- depth knowledge of the profession’s practice
What are the primary functions of professional self-regulation?
Primary functions to ensure their members are qualified, competent and following clearly defined standards of practice and ethics.
What are the three points of the “triple aim”?
Improving the health of populations;
Improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), to which B.C. has recognized the additional requirement of improving the experience of delivering care for providers and support staff
Reducing the per capita cost of health by focusing on quality (especially effectiveness and appropriateness) and the efficiency of health care delivery.
What are the 5 core characteristics for teams to provide quality patient care?
accessible to the patient engaged and motivated skills and competencies safe and healthy support and leadership
What are some pressures affecting prediction of how many nurses (or other health care professionals we need)?
Funding Workforce Changing patters in labour supply Adoption of new technologies Effects of policy decisions Changes in health care delivery Practice environment
How much does the average age of physicians increase per year (data between 2004 and 2009)?
Between 2004 and 2009, the average age of MD > by 1.2 years.
How many/what percentage of the nursing profession (RNs) were older (between 40 and 60) in 2009?
Older workers also dominated the nursing professions, accounting for 57% of the registered nurse workforce in 2009
What does the term “shortage” imply? (shortage of health care workers)
Could mean any or all of the following:
There are more jobs than qualified people, resulting in persistent vacancy rates.
Qualified people have, for various reasons, left the workforce.
The need for services is growing faster than the capacity to address it.
Overall capacity is sufficient but is poorly distributed (for example some areas are overserved while others are underserved).
The division of labor is inefficient (for example, nurses doing work that could be done by licensed practical nurses, or MD doing work to be done by a NP).
Work is not organized efficiently, resulting in wasted time and lower productivity
People are getting services that they do not need
– (for example, for many, an annual complete physical examination is not necessary), which effectively crowd the services they do need.
