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Nursing workforce redesign initiatives are underway around the world to meet human resource needs, address over-sized budgets and inefficiencies, and meet quality and safety demands. These initiatives frequently involve changes to nurses’ care delivery models. Changes often involve staffing levels, skill mix, and different modes of delivery, such as team nursing. This presentation will highlight the effects of nursing workforce redesign in Canada, Australia, the US and the UK. We will discuss policy trends and collective bargaining language related to nursing workforce redesign with a special focus on safety implications. One policy for instance,"like for like" replacement policy, is being used in Canada and Australia. This policy, borrowed from the aviation industry, is an example of safety language originating from high reliability organizations.