Resources

2024  |  Reports

The 2023 Burnout and Assessment of Team Cohesiveness Provincial Report provides an overview of the reported feelings of burnout among critical care teams, the ongoing impact of the pandemic recovery experience, the baseline perception of team cohesiveness, and the continuing impact of Health Human Resource challenges witnessed in Ontario within critical care. The insights gained from this Annual Report continue to inform system-level, as well as local investment and planning to improve staff well-being and retention within the Ontario Critical Care system.

2023  |  Reports

The 2021-2022 Recruitment & Retention Provincial Report focuses primarily on the impact of COVID-19 on the recruitment, retention, staffing practices, and supports to critical care nursing and allied health professionals in Ontario Critical Care Units.

2022  |  Reports

As an extension of the Ontario Critical Care Plan (2018-2021), the updated system priorities align with the five priority pillars of the 2018-21 plan. The priorities reflect the needs and opportunities identified through a consultation process with system stakeholders and leaders, and will guide the work that CCSO leads in collaboration with system partners (FY 2022-2024).

2019  |  Reports

The 2019 Critical Care Workforce Profile Provincial Report provides analytics on the critical care nursing workforce and to a lesser degree on allied health professionals working in the Ontario Critical Care System. The report includes comprehensive critical care nurse demographics, workforce utilization, and recruitment and retention indicators with data from the 2017/18 year.  The 2019 Critical Care Workforce Profile Report is the 7th edition of a provincial survey across its 246 adult, paediatric and neonatal critical care units.  As CCSO’s mandate has been expanded to oversee the neonatal intensive care units in October 2017, new to the 7th edition of the Critical Care Workforce Profile is reporting on neonatal intensive care workforce in the province. 

2018  |  Reports

The Ontario Critical Care Plan (2018-2021) guides the work that CCSO leads to advance a critical care system that is accessible, integrated, and delivers high quality care outcomes.