UHCPs Basics
These workers, like PSWs and aides, help with patient care but are not licensed.
Who are UHCPs?
Before UHCPs existed, these people did all patient care.
Who are licensed nurses?
Canada News Wire (2025) says nurses with degrees perform better in emergencies than these unregulated helpers.
Who are unregulated Operating Room Assistants?
Nurses feel more pressure because they stay responsible for UHCPs’ work. This is called what?
What is liability?
Clear roles and good training help protect this important part of care.
What is patient safety?
These professionals must supervise UHCPs.
Who are Registered Nurses?
Two problems, shortage of nurses and more patients, led to the use of UHCPs.
What are nursing shortages and high patient demand?
This nursing body says nurses can’t give nursing-only tasks to UHCPs.
What is the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)?
Checking UHCPs’ work adds more of this to nurses’ day.
What is workload or stress?
Good teamwork depends on communication, trust, and this moral behavior.
What is ethical practice?
UHCPs help patients with things like bathing, feeding, and walking. These are called what?
What is bedside care?
New healthcare rules encouraged teamwork, which helped UHCPs become more common.
What are policy changes?
The CNO says nurses and UHCPs must do this to give patients safe care.
What is work together or collaborate?
When nurses don’t know what UHCPs can do, this type of confusion happens.
What is a blurred scope of practice?
When everyone works together properly, care becomes centered around this.
What is the patient?
UHCPs help nurses by doing basic tasks when staff are short. This increases what?
What is nursing support or capacity?
UHCPs are especially important in these two places: long-term care and _______.
What are hospitals?
Studies show unclear UHCP roles can put this at risk.
What is patient safety?
Students often feel this when they get unclear instructions from staff.
What is stress or confusion?
Better teamwork and education help strengthen this group of healthcare workers.
What is the nursing workforce?
Because nurses are so busy today, hospitals are depending more on these workers.
Who are UHCPs?
As the population gets older, the need for UHCPs continues to do this.
What is increase?
When UHCPs do tasks they aren’t trained for, the quality of this may go down.
What is patient care?
When UHCP roles overlap too much with RN roles, public trust in nurses can do this.
What is decrease?
Good supervision of UHCPs helps keep this level of care high.
What is quality care?