Exploring Theme: "Retention of Healthcare Worker"

Indigenous Services Canada: Nursing shortages are impacting health care delivery across the country, with frontline workers taking on tremendous workloads and burdens as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce continue. In many Indigenous remote and isolated communities, these impacts are exacerbated, posing challenges not only for staffing but for community health and...

 Territorial Health Investment Fund provides $1 million annually for 4 years (2017-18 to 2020-21) for the development of cultural competency training. Health Minister Jan. 28, 2021 – Patty Hajdu announced $4 million in support for a national consortium, led by Indigenous physicians, to implement projects to educate doctors on the provision of “culturally safe” health care that is...

$8M to Canadian Health Research Network for an Indigenous Mentorship Network Program whose aim is to support the next generation of Indigenous health researchers by providing distinctive learning opportunities and specially tailored mentoring activities to Indigenous students at the undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral levels, as well as Indigenous researchers in the beginning phase of...