Women’s College Hospital (WCH) is a world leader in health for women, health equity and health system solutions – a hospital designed to keep people out of hospital. We are developing ground-breaking innovations that address issues related to population health, patient and staff experience, equity and accessibility, and system costs using the quintuple aim framework.
In Summer 2023, WCH...
Objective: Explore the benefits of implementing an Indigenous Patient Navigator to enhance healthcare services by 1) offering additional support to patients and families within hospital 2) reducing gaps in service and removing barriers to accessing equitable healthcare 3) identifying health trends and common needs among the indigenous population.
Background: In 2021, 5,885 individuals...
Background: Recruitment of internationally educated nurses (IENs) is a longstanding health human resource strategy. The current state of our nursing crisis has led to increased recruitment of IENs (Nji-Mokonya, 2018). Though the recruitment of IENs is gaining popularity, there remains a lack of a clear pathway for these nurses to transition back to practice (Kurup et al., 2023). Instead, IENs...
