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Health,
Taxation and Finance
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Allow nurses to certify the Disability Tax Credit form
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Aboriginal Affairs,
Education,
Health
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Continue to act on Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, including recommendation for new Indigenous healing centres, enhancing the education of health-care workers in culturally appropriate care, and increasing the diversity of the health workforce in Canada.
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Budget,
Health
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Create a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy
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Health
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Development of pan-Canadian standards for equal access, consistent
quality, and necessary staffing, training and protocols for the long-term care sector, including home, community, and institutional settings, with increased funding and proper accountability measures and outcomes.
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Health
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Improve access to primary care, home care, and palliative and end-of-life care for all people in Canada.
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Federal-Provincial Relations,
Health
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Influencing the Canada Health Transfer and Health Bilateral Agreements between the federal government and provinces and territories to urge governments to increase healthcare investments and invest in priority areas such as the health workforce, primary care, long-term care, mental health, data and virtual care, and surgeries and backlogs.
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Education,
Health
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Pandemic Planning and COVID-19: ensure all nurses are properly supported and protecting by ensuring appropriate stockpiling of PPE, support for mental health while on the front lines, support for nursing students, increased access to education and training when return to work or working in various care setting while responding to a pandemic, ensuring appropriate guidelines and resources are disseminated and developed and ensure senior nurses are part of discussions and advisory review boards during pandemics in planning phases as well as post pandemic in the review.
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Aboriginal Affairs,
Health,
Research and Development
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Seek funding for nursing research, including Indigenous nursing
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Budget,
Education,
Health
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Strategies to address the health human resources crisis and nursing shortages across Canada, including providing funding to provinces and territories to help optimize workloads; financial supports for nurses and health-care workers such as loan forgiveness, tax incentives, retention bonuses for senior nurses; creating a mental health action plan for health-care workers; increasing training and education for health-care workers.
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Health
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Strengthening and creating programs to support illness prevention and health promotion, long term care, palliative care, home and community care, affordable housing and other social determinants of health
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Health
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Support for regulated nurses working at full scope of practice
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