Registered nurse employment in Ontario home care programs

The utilization of Ontario home care program services has expanded dramatically in recent years, resulting in increasing demand for, and greater employment of, registered nurses in such programs. This paper examines the employment of registered nurses in Ontario home care programs, through registrant data collected by the College of Nurses of Ontario between 1984 and 1989. A sociodemographic and employment profile of home care program nurses is presented (contrasted with registered nurses in other employment settings), along with an analysis of the mobility of registered nurses to and from Ontario home care programs over the five-year period.