{"title":"Artificial Intelligence and the Sustainable Development Goals: Implications for Canadian Nurses and Nurse Leaders.","authors":"Manal Kleib, Laura Vogelsang","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27787","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27787","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial intelligence (AI) offers many opportunities for nursing to improve health outcomes and contribute to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals nationally and globally. However, it also presents challenges to meeting these goals and keeping pace with innovation, which nurses must anticipate and mitigate. Canadian nurse leaders are well-positioned to guide transformative change in the nursing workforce, ensuring that nurses have the competencies and resources needed to thrive in AI-supported care environments. This not only allows nurses to better adapt to AI but also leverages new skills to take on more significant roles in improving healthcare on a wider scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"64-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Embedding a Global Perspective Into Canadian Nursing Workforce Policy and Planning.","authors":"Lisa Little","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27792","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27792","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The world is off-track to meet most of the health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets by 2030, including SDG 3.8, universal health coverage (UHC). A sustainable nursing workforce is needed to advance UHC. This paper discusses key issues surrounding the global nursing shortage and offers solutions for the Canadian context to build a sustainable nursing workforce and strengthen health systems to improve access to care for all. Primary healthcare, investment in nursing and enhanced nursing leadership capacity are just a few of the proposed policy levers discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"10-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobilizing Nursing Leadership for Planetary Health: Preparing the Healthcare Workforce for a Warming World.","authors":"Raluca Radu, Agnes Black","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27786","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27786","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The intensifying climate crisis poses significant challenges to healthcare systems, including extreme weather events, rising temperatures and evolving disease patterns. In response, healthcare leaders must both adapt care delivery and pursue system-wide decarbonization. Nursing roles are expanding to include advocacy for planetary health, with educational programs working to equip nurses for climate-responsive practice. This commentary presents examples of nursing leadership in climate resilience and calls on healthcare organizations to leverage the profession's capacity to lead efforts integrating planetary health into sustainable, climate-resilient patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"76-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing the Nursing Workforce for Internationally Educated Nurse Integration: Implications for Nursing Leadership and System Transformation.","authors":"Alyssa Indar, Nasrin Alostaz","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27789","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic intensified Canada's nursing shortages, increasing reliance on internationally educated nurses (IENs) as a solution for these vacancies. IEN integration strategies vary across Canadian provinces and territories, driven by contextual needs and available resources. This discussion paper provides a high-level overview of IEN integration in Canada, offering practical recommendations for nursing leaders to develop an ethical, equitable and sustainable nursing workforce. We outline the benefits of investing in improvements to IEN integration and the value it plays in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. This requires equity-focused reforms at macro-, meso- and micro-levels to fully utilize IEN expertise and experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"40-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Readying the Nursing Workforce to Embrace an Ever-Changing World.","authors":"Patrick Chiu, Ruth Martin-Misener","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27793","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27793","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>It's no surprise to anyone</b> to have us say that we are living in challenging times. Though some may have thought that a postpandemic world would see the recovery and stabilization of economies, healthcare systems and workforces, at times it feels somewhat similar to a never-ending era of calamity. We continue to live in a time of polycrisis - from economic instability exacerbated by ongoing global trade wars, struggling health workforces impacting the accessibility and availability of healthcare services, to worsening planetary health exacerbating food and water insecurity, physical and mental health issues, health inequities and forced migration and displacement. We are severely off track to meet the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 (UN 2015). Nurses and nurse practitioners are leaving the profession at record numbers, with many leaving just within the first few years of being licensed (Faubert 2025). Working conditions remain a challenge across provincial and territorial health systems (CFNU 2025). Yet, while the future may look bleak, these wicked problems are not impossible to fix. Indeed, this is our new normal - a constantly changing world that, now more than ever, needs our resolve to create a healthier future for all.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Strategic Role of Nursing Regulatory Leaders in Leveraging Data to Support the Nursing Workforce.","authors":"Sophia Myles, Ivy Bourgeault","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27790","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27790","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nursing workforce data development, standardization and liberation enable enhanced evidence-informed planning, staffing decision making and quality improvement initiatives. This commentary discusses how the nursing profession can work collaboratively to create an agile, responsive nursing workforce to meet patient needs and respond to broader health system goals through the optimal use of data, and describes data initiatives in progress that can assist nursing leaders to understand how to prepare the nursing workforce for a changing world. The data generated at registration by nursing regulators is a particularly strategic opportunity to leverage efforts to standardize and optimize data for such needed planning.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"29-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging Nursing Regulation to Achieve Workforce, Health System and Societal Goals.","authors":"Patrick Chiu, Kathleen Leslie","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27791","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27791","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nursing regulators must uphold their mandate to protect the public amid increasing scrutiny and shifting expectations. As understandings of the public interest evolve, so too must regulatory policy and practice. In this commentary, we explore the role of nursing regulation in addressing system-level challenges, including workforce dynamics, racism, misinformation and planetary health. Stronger investment by governments and nursing leadership in regulatory research, as well as support for partnerships between regulators and researchers, can help build an evidence base demonstrating the unique role of regulation in not only supporting a safe, competent workforce but also advancing equity and sustainability in health systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"20-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leading Trauma-Informed Cultures of Care in Times of Uncertainty and Change: How Trauma-Informed Organizational and Leadership Practices Can Bolster Psychological Health and Safety.","authors":"Rosanra Yoon","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27788","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27788","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We are living in increasingly complex and uncertain times that demand both resilience and agility. A reality that is made ever more challenging in healthcare environments that face long-standing pressures to do more with less by a healthcare workforce that often is exposed to great personal and professional strain. Adopting and actioning principles of trauma-informed organizational culture and leadership can provide a pragmatic and responsive framework that can bolster health worker well-being and system agility in the face of adversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"51-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rebuilding Nursing on Foundations of Anti-Racist Worldmaking: A Political Imperative.","authors":"Samantha Louie-Poon","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27785","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2026.27785","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nursing's moral imperative toward anti-racism has been vital in opening spaces of critical dialogue within the discipline and profession. Yet, solely focusing on a moral mandate is limiting by risking professional precarity and moral distress. A renewed reflection is required to address the material and structural conditions that impede sustained anti-racism action. Nursing leaders are well-positioned to undertake anti-racist worldmaking through their commitments for a political imperative.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 3","pages":"82-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146222680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha Horvath, Sanja Visekruna, Kelley Kilpatrick, Melissa McCallum, Nancy Carter
{"title":"Ontario Emergency Department Models of Care With Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists.","authors":"Samantha Horvath, Sanja Visekruna, Kelley Kilpatrick, Melissa McCallum, Nancy Carter","doi":"10.12927/cjnl.2025.27719","DOIUrl":"10.12927/cjnl.2025.27719","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To identify and describe the advanced practice nurse (APN) workforce and models of care (MOC) in emergency departments (EDs) across Ontario, Canada.</p><p><strong>Background: </strong>EDs face pressures related to patient acuity, wait times and resources. Research is needed to support ED APN MOC.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>a cross-sectional survey was distributed to ED APNs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Total respondents: <i>n</i> = 52 (44.4% response rate). Frequently reported MOC were fast-track and general emergency, with fewer triage, geriatric and mental health MOC reported.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Future efforts should focus on ED APN MOC improving equity and access. Results can inform health human resource planning to meet priority patient needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":520294,"journal":{"name":"Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.)","volume":"38 2","pages":"69-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}