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Governance & Regulation

Leads: Kathleen (Kate) Leslie & Patrick Chiu

CHWN researchers are working on projects that examine the role of governance and regulation in supporting the health workforce while mitigating public risk. Legal and regulatory frameworks underpin health workforce advances such as optimizing scopes of practice to ensure appropriate skill mix, supporting team-based care models of care, and facilitating cross-border practice and inter-jurisdictional mobility.

Infographics

COVID-19 Impacts on the Mental Health and Substance Use Health (MHSUH) Workforce in Canada (November, 2021)

Innovations

CIHR Funded Studies:

Co-creating a Pan-Canadian Nursing Regulation Research Agenda to Achieve the Quadruple Aim and Health Equity  

Advancing equitable and ethical regulatory policy: Evaluating the implementation of new licensure and integration pathways for internationally educated nurses in Canada

Other Institution Funded Studies:

An Environmental Scan of Canadian Nursing Regulators’ Continuing Competence Programs funded through through the Endowment Fund for the Future: Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (EFF-SAS), Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. 

Webinars

Co-Creating a Pan Canadian Nursing Regulation Research Agenda (March, 2025)

IHWC Country Roundtables Canada - The Pandemic and the Health Workforce Research on Impacts and Responses in Canada (May, 2022)

Setting a Research Agenda for Health Workforce Regulation and Governance in Canada (October, 2020)

Presentations

There are no presentations at this time.

Latest Publications

Where Research Meets Practice: Building Academic-Regulatory Partnerships to Drive Evidence-Informed Professional Regulation (April, 2026)

The Design and Delivery of Canadian Nursing Regulators’ Continuing Competence Programs: An Environmental Scan (April, 2026)

Leveraging Nursing Regulation to Achieve Workforce, Health System and Societal Goals (January, 2026)

Developing a Pan-Canadian Nursing Regulation Research Agenda (January, 2026)

Health Practitioner Regulation and Anti-Racism: A Scoping Review (December, 2025)

Licensure Pathways for Internationally Educated Nurses: An Environmental Scan of Canadian Nursing Regulatory Bodies (June, 2025)

Performance Measurement and Evaluation of Health Practitioner Regulation: A Scoping Review Protocol (March, 2025)

Nursing Regulation in Canada: Insights from a Scoping Review (May, 2025)

Re-imagining Approaches for Mental Health and Substance Use Health Workforce Regulation in Canada: Making Room for Dynamic Tensions (March, 2025)

Nurses' Perceptions of the Role of Nursing Organizations in Promoting Engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Study (February, 2025)

Professional Regulation in a Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities (January, 2025)

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