Concepts of Nursing and Healthcare in Canada

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Concepts of Nursing and Healthcare in Canada
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Discussion of the statement
The primary motive is to elaborate the important problems faced by the healthcare of
Canada and the national Medicare program while delivering health care services to the people in
the second decade of the 21st century.
It is examined that the health care setting of Canada faces vital issue about the shortage of
nursing staffs. The reason for the nursing shortage is the aging nursing workers, early retirement,
as well as short supply of nursing graduates in the healthcare environment of Canada. It has been
predicted that there was approximately 78,000 shortage of nurses in the hospitals, which affect
the delivering of health services. Several factors like reduction in the working hours, aging
nursing population and a decrease in the allotment of full-time nursing positions cause a shortage
of nursing staffs (Valle, 2016). As a consequence, Canadian healthcare and the national
Medicare program have critical issues with the offering of healthcare services in the 21st century
(Tuohy, 2018). Hence, the country begins to recruit internationally educated nurses to fill the job
vacancies of nurses. The Canadian healthcare system is also known as Medicare that has been
designed to ensure that all the residents of the country would get equal access to appropriate
medical care. The Canadian residents are facing numerous health-related challenges in the 21st
century which includes overweight, obesity, mental health, injury, nutrition, substance abuse and
environment quality (Adams, 2016). It means that the health issues are rapidly increasing in
Canada, but the supply of nursing staffs are reducing that cause problem in the delivery of health
services to the patients.
With the shortage of nurses in the clinical setting, the healthcare institutions cannot
provide proper and quality health services to the patients. The Canadian healthcare system has

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faced challenges in the second decade of the 21st century because of various aspects such as high
cost of new medical technologies, fiscal constraints and way of delivering services to the
patients. It is expected that all these factors will be continued in the future as the way the doctors,
as well as the nurses, deliver health care services to the patients have changed to alternative
delivery of care and using of advanced medical equipment (Muscedere et al., 2016). The country
has the second-highest expenditure on the adoption of new medical technologies that changed
the delivery of health services because the existing nurses face difficulty in using the modern
medical practices (Muscedere et al., 2016). However, the government focus on bringing
electronic health technologies to drive efficiency in the healthcare system and improve the
quality of care (Church, Gerlock & Smith, 2018). Patient safety is another issue faced by the
healthcare system of Canada, and thus, it is essential to avoid medical errors and develop the
healthcare system by organizing development programs and recruit highly educated nursing
professionals for enhancing the quality of health care services throughout the health care system
(Moser, 2016).
The paper concludes that the Canadian health care system faces various issues in offering
services to the patients, which can be improved with the adoption of essential steps in the health
care environment.
Advantages and drawbacks to the recruitment of globally educated nurses
The main aim is to discuss some of the advantages as well as drawbacks to the
recruitment of internationally educated nurses to fill the vacancies of the Canadian healthcare
industry. It is seen that there is a dramatic increase in the number of internationally educated