Theme 1: Community Care

• Seniors at “The Margins” of Care
• Children with Long-term Care Needs
• Ethno-Racial Differences in the Balance of Care

Theme 2: Health Human Resources

• Who Works Where and Why? Modeling the Turnover of Nurses Across Canada
  
• Employment Patterns Among Ontario Allied Health Professionals
  
• Employment Patterns Among Ontario’s Rehabilitation Professionals
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Physiotherapists
• Labour Force Participation of Nurses
• An Analysis of Practice Patterns: Implications for Curriculum Design:
  • Respiratory Therapists
  • Medical Laboratory Technologists
  • Managers (RT, MLT, MRT)
  • Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs)
• Implementing a New Health Care Worker: Anesthesia Assistants in Ontario

Theme 3: Cross-Jurisdictional, Integrative Policy Analysis

Theme: Health Human Resources
Project: 2-3a: Employment patterns among Ontario’s rehabilitation professionals: Occupational therapists.

Projects 2-2 and 2-3 will conduct similar analyses, by sub-sector and sub-speciality, for the period 1993-2005, within the health professions of medical laboratory technology, respiratory therapy, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy; we are pleased that the four regulatory colleges are partners/collaborators in this study. The analytical methods will be identical to those employed in Project 2-1

The questions being asked are: How has the number and proportion of MLTs, OTs, PTs and RTs working in Ontario and ‘eligible’ but not currently working, changed? Do these trends and patterns vary by: age group, sub-specialities within each profession, and sub-sector? How has the shift of care from institutions to the community affected the number working, whether they are full time/part time/casual, and their likelihood of continuing to work in that profession, and in various sub-sectors? This work will be augmented by the survey analysis in Project 2-4.

Research Team:

Graduate Student:
Robyn Hastie MSc. (graduated)

Co-investigators:
Audrey Laporte
Raisa Deber

Partners and Collaborators:
College of Occupational  Therapists of Ontario, Barb Worth, Resgistrar

Based your work plan your current project status should be: (Indicate the current status of your project based on your submitted work plan. Please indicate reasons for any delays to your project plan)
Done:

• Literature Review
• Database constructed and cleaned
• Descriptive statistic
• Survival Analysis (including the linear hypotheses testing results and Kaplan-Meier Curves) (still needs to be interpreted)
• Stickiness and Inflow for sector, employment status, multiple employers, funding source, and position (still needs to be interpreted
• Stickiness and Inflow by age group for sector, employment status, multiple employers, funding source, and position (still needs to be interpreted)
• Stay, Switch and Leave
• Stay/Switch variables: sector, employment status, multiple employers, funding source, and position
• Descriptive statistics for Stay/Switch/Leave include sector, employment status, multiple employers, funding source, position, age group, and education st(ill needs to be interpreted)

In progress:

• Documenting in SAS (ongoing)

OT write up:

• Writing up final report and publications

Presentations and Publications:

Oral Presentations:

• Hastie, R., Gamble, B., Deber, R., and Rappolt, S. Professional Issues Forum: Retention of OTs in Canada - “Factors that Influence the Occupational Therapist Labour Market in Ontario.” Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists National Conference 2009. Ottawa, Ontario. June 3-6, 2009.
• Hastie, R., Lam, K., Gamble, B., Landry, M., Lum, J., Rappolt, S., Verrier, M., Williams, P., Laporte, A., and Deber, R. “Characteristics of Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists who work full-time versus ones who work equivalent to full-time.” Health Human Resources 2007: Connecting Issues and People. Ottawa, Ontario. December 4-6, 2007.

Poster Presentations:

• Hastie, R., Gamble, B., Deber, R., and Rappolt, S. “Retention of occupational therapists in practice across employment sectors.” Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists National Conference 2009. Ottawa, Ontario. June 3-6, 2009.
• Hastie, R., Gamble, B., Deber, R., and Rappolt, S. “Professional survival: Why do occupational therapists leave the profession?” Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists National Conference 2009. Ottawa, Ontario. June 3-6, 2009.
• Hastie, R., Gamble, B., Laporte, A., Levinton, C., Deber, R., and Rappolt, S. “The Retention of Ontario Occupational Therapists across Employment Settings.” 2008 CAHSPR Conference. Gatineau, Quebec. May 26-28, 2008.
• Hastie, R., Gamble, B., Lam, K., Laporte, A., Williams, P., Lum, J., Landry, M., Verrier, M., Rappolt, S., and Deber, R. “Characteristics of Occupational Therapists (OTs) and Physiotherapists (PTs) who work in Different Sectors Health Service Delivery.” 2008 CAHSPR Conference. Gatineau, Quebec. May 26-28, 2008.
• Hastie, R., Gamble, B., Laporte, A., Levinton, C., Deber, R., and Rappolt, S. “The Age Structure of Occupational Therapists Working in Ontario.” SEDAP New Researchers Conference. Hamilton, Ontario. October 19-20, 2007.
• Gamble, B., Laporte, A., Levinton, C., Hastie, R., Deber, R., and Rappolt, S. “Funding Trends for Occupational Therapy Services in Ontario.” 2007 CAHSPR Conference. Toronto, Ontario. June 12-14, 2007.