This qualitative descriptive study assesses perspectives of US community-based palliative care program leaders on staffing, recruitment, and training. Leaders from academic medical centers, large...
Author(s): Nancy Dudley, Susan Chapman and Joanne Spetz
While the demand for registered nurses (RNs) in California’s San Joaquin Valley is projected to grow by more than 35 percent by 2030, the region’s total number of RNs will decline. This will result ...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Janet Coffman and Timothy Bates
This study explored care models and policies that enhance the utilization of peer providers in California and to identify and describe best practices in peer support roles and practices for...
Author(s): Susan A. Chapman, Lisel Blash, Joanne Spetz
Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) were designed to provide care in medically underserved areas and substantial and sustained federal funding has accelerated FQHC growth. This report examines...
Author(s): Ying Xue, Elizabeth Greener, Viji Kannan, Joyce A. Smith, Carol Brewer, Joanne Spetz
This report analyzes and projects future needs related to California’s behavioral health workforce. This workforce is critical to meeting California’s health care needs. One in six adults suffers...
Author(s): Janet Coffman, Timothy Bates, Igor Geyn and Joanne Spetz
Highlights
Value-based payment is leading to enhanced care coordination staffing.
Sites are task shifting low-complexity care coordination to unlicensed staff.
Important care coordination education...
Author(s): Clese E. Erikson, Patricia Pittman, Alicia LaFrance, Susan A. Chapman
While it is difficult to know the true number of practicing geriatricians, the supply has been negatively affected by tightening certification requirements, relatively low income and negative return...
Author(s): Aubri Kottek, Timothy Bates and Joanne Spetz.
Demand for health care professionals with expertise in long-term care (LTC) and older populations is rising, due to projected growth in the older population and the increasing burden of chronic...
Author(s): Kristine Himmerick, Jacqueline Miller, Christopher Toretsky, Matthew Jura, Joanne Spetz
The 2016 Survey of California Registered Nurses is the tenth in a series of surveys designed to describe the population of registered nurses (RNs) licensed in California and to examine changes in...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Lela Chu, Matthew Jura, and Jacqueline Miller
Although communication is an essential part of the nursing process, nurses have little to no formal education in how to best communicate patient safety event (PSE) information to nursing home (NH)...
Author(s): Laura M. Wagner, Lena Driscoll, Jasmin L. Darlington, Victoria Flores, Julee Kim, Katerina Melino, Hema Doshi Patel, and Joanne Spetz
