A nurse by any other name? An international comparison of nomenclature and regulation of healthcare assistants.

Background: Across international healthcare systems, healthcare assistant roles have proliferated, in part to decrease nursing costs and support workplace staffing. There is a lack of consensus about the professional title for healthcare assistants, and whether this group requires professional regulation. The variety of terms for healthcare assistants has resulted in confusion around their scope of practice and role within the healthcare team, which may influence patient care.

"They Talk to Me Like a Person" Experiences of People in an Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment Program: A Qualitative Interpretive Description.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore client experiences in a community-based injectable opioid agonist therapy (iOAT) program.

Study Setting: The study occurred across two cities in Alberta, Canada.

Study Design: The research team conducted secondary interpretive description analysis on qualitative interview transcripts.

'Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be improved': an ethnographic analysis of the health system in Wakanda.

The emergence of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has introduced significant global challenges for healthcare systems, healthcare professionals and patients. This current climate creates an opportunity to learn from equitable health systems and move toward making fundamental changes to healthcare systems. Our ethnographic analysis of Wakanda's healthcare system in , from the , offers opportunities for system-level transformation across healthcare settings.