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Theme: Health Human Resources
Project: 2-5e: Implementing a new
health care worker: anesthesia assistants in Ontario.
Project Lead:
Karim Bandali
Synopsis of Project:
The shifting of place of work from hospital to home and community
may in turn influence what employed health professionals do,
and how they must be educated. There are concerns as to how
to achieve integrated delivery and collaboration among professions
in the changing delivery system, and ongoing issues as to whether
the specialization that is taking place within professions is
transforming single markets into a series of de facto sub-markets.
Although the sub-sector analysis is well positioned to explore
the extent to which individuals change their type of employment,
understanding what people do will require surveys. Project 2-5
will ascertain where graduates of selected programs are employed,
the types of contracts they are getting, and what they are doing,
which should allow us to ascertain the extent to which different
sub-sectors actually do the same work with the same sorts of
skill mix. The survey instruments will be coordinated to ensure
the ability to compare across professions. In these studies,
we will concentrate on new graduates. We will also ascertain
uptake--how quickly they are employed, and who employs them
(by sub-sector). Some of the survey results can then be employed
to augment the labour economics studies and add individual-level
variables. The objectives of this Project are to: a) analyze
the practice patterns of each selected profession, b) assess
the extent of variation by sub-sector, c) assess perceptions
of trends/changes in these practice patterns, and d) assess
the gaps between curriculum content and practice patterns for
these professions.
e. Implementing a new health worker: anesthesia assistants in
Ontario. The team will collaborate with this new program to
analyze the human resources elements of a new profession - Anesthesia
assistants. It will emphasize who is trained, where they work,
and what they do. This Project team will also be conducting
an evaluation of their training program (which includes innovative
components) and how this affects the rate of medical error,
but the SBHC elements will be restricted to the HHR impact.
Nonetheless, we believe that the partnership will be mutually
beneficial. The HHR impact will be explored using a longitudinal
qualitative case study approach. Graduates will be interviewed
to determine the scope of their role in the care of patients
who undergo Anesthesia. In addition to graduate interviews the
HHR impact will be assessed by comparing labour market data
collected with respect to RTs.
Contact:
Spring Pinar Peacock
Project Manager
The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences
Phone: (416) 596-3101 x3329
Fax: (416) 596-3105
Email: ppeacock@michener.ca
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