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Career Programs for California’s Pipeline of Secondary Students: An Opportunity to Address the State’s Workforce Shortages
07-01-09
The study examined health career programs for the state’s pipeline of secondary students. It revealed a broad range of program structures, including academy models, Regional Occupational Centers and Programs, magnets and stand-alone health professions high schools. Key barriers to making these...
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2008 Survey of Registered Nurses
06-23-09
The 2008 Survey of California Registered Nurses is the sixth in a series of surveys designed to describe licensed nurses in California and to examine changes over time. Other studies were completed in 1990, 1993, 1997, 2004, and 2006. Like the 2004 & 2006 surveys, the 2008 survey targeted two...
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Forecasting the Nursing Shortage in California (2009)
06-12-09
Forecasting the supply and demand of the nursing workforce is crucial to understanding the short and long term needs for nurses in California and for identifying strategies for addressing future shortages. This presentation provides data for the 2009 forecast of the nursing workforce in California.
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Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in Specialty Care: Six Practices Make It Work
06-01-09
Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) are increasingly being incorporated into outpatient specialty practices to improve access to care and reduce wait times. PAs and NPs also bolster the quality and financial profitability of specialty practices by allowing physicians to focus...
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Update on California’s Nursing Workforce (Sacramento, CA)
03-24-09
While the number of RN programs as well as graduation numbers have increased, and some regions do not currently in this recession experience a shortage, the overall projected shortage of nurses still looms in the future. Detailed data is presented to the California Healthcare Workforce Policy...
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The Mental Health Workforce in California: Trends in Employment, Education, and Diversity
03-01-09
An influx of new students in the mental health professions will be needed in order to serve a growing number of Californians. Beyond addressing a shortage of mental health providers, a more diverse mental health workforce is desired in order to better reflect the increasing diversity in California’...
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Restructuring California's Mental Health Workforce: Interviews with Key Stakeholders
03-01-09
The mental health workforce is challenged to provide needed mental health services to a growing and increasingly diverse population in California. By interviewing stakeholders and reviewing key literature this report seeks to assess the supply, demand, education, training, and diversity of...
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California’s Minimum-Nurse-Staffing Legislation and Nurses’ Wages
02-10-09
In 2004, California became the first state to implement minimum-nurse-staffing ratios in acute care hospitals. We examined the wages of registered nurses (RNs) before and after the legislation was enacted. Using four data sets—the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, the Current Population...
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Assessing the Impact of California’s Nurse Staffing Ratios on Hospitals and Patient Care
02-01-09
In 2004, California began requiring that acute-care hospitals maintain certain minimum ratios between nurses and patients, making it the first state in the nation to do so. However, little is known about what effects the staffing ratios have had, either on the hospitals themselves or the quality of...
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Correlates of Intent to Leave Job and Profession for Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
01-01-09
Purpose–A very limited number of studies have explored factors related to emergency medical services (EMS) workers leaving their jobs and the profession. This paper aims to investigate the correlates of intent to leave EMS jobs and the profession and compared two types of workers: emergency medical...
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The Movement of Registered Nurses into and out of California
11-14-08
The California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) is interested in knowing more about the movement of nurses into and out of California and commissioned the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to research behaviors of these nurses. Every month during the six-month study period, the BRN...
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California Dental Hygiene Labor Market Report
11-08-08
This report provides an overview of the dental hygiene workforce labor market in California.
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Registered Dental Hygienists in California: Regional Labor Market Chart Book
11-01-08
Registered dental hygienists (RDHs) focus on providing critical preventive and therapeutic dental hygiene services for the population of California. The labor market for dental hygienists is responsive to variations in multiple factors at the local level. This study explores the labor market for...
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A Closer Look at Health Care Workforce Needs in the West: Oral Health Care
10-08-08
The development of the future oral health care workforce is a central focus of WICHE, which has a long history of partnering with states to improve access to dental and other professional training via the Professional Student Exchange Program. This report highlights some of the key trends, issues,...
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Respiratory Care and Imaging Technology in California: Education's Response to Workforce Shortages
10-01-08
One of the many challenges facing America’s health care system has been securing sufficient numbers of practitioners to fill jobs and meet patient needs. Allied health professions particularly hard hit in recent years include respiratory care and imaging (or radiologic technology). To better...
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How Many Nurses Per Patient? Measurements of Nurse Staffing in Health Services Research
10-01-08
Objective: To compare alternative measures of nurse staffing and assess the relative strengths and limitations of each measure.
Data Sources/Study Setting: Primary and secondary data from 2000 and 2002 on hospital nurse staffing from the American Hospital Association, California Office of Statewide...
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Job and Industry Turnover for Registered and Licensed Vocational Nurses
09-01-08
Most studies of nurse turnover focus on job turnover, which could reflect nurse advancement and thus not be detrimental to the workforce. The authors discuss findings from a study that involved 2 cohorts of graduates from registered nursing and licensed vocational nursing community college programs...
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Diversity in California’s Health Professions: Registered Nursing
09-01-08
Concern over the lack of diversity in California’s RN population has been raised by educators, nursing leadership, private foundations, and policy makers. This issue brief is one in a series of briefs presenting a profile of California’s current and projected population, selected health professions...
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Diversity in California's Health Professions: Physical Therapy
09-01-08
California has become one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the country, and is projected to become even more so in the coming decades. This issue brief is one in a series of briefs presenting a profile of California’s current and projected population, selected health...
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Collecting Health Workforce Data in California
09-01-08
For the first time, the Legislature has charged the state’s Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development with establishing a clearinghouse of data about California’s health care workforce. Such a coordinated effort could mean that policy makers will have good, solid information on which to...
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Nurses Working Outside of Nursing: Societal Trend or Workplace Crisis?
08-01-08
The phenomenon of career inactivity in professional nursing has been historically portrayed in the literature as a major cause of disequilibrium in the registered nurse labor market. However, there remains a general lack of understanding of the diverse forces that shape the inactive nurse pool and...
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Health Workforce Needs in California and the Role of Community Colleges (Sacramento, CA)
08-01-08
The trend of increasing demand for health -- and especially allied health workers -- in CA is projected to continue. This presentation takes a closer look at the data as related to employment, income, and educational opportunities.
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Diversity in California's Health Professions: Pharmacy
08-01-08
California has become one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the country, and is projected to become even more so in the coming decades. This issue brief is one in a series of briefs presenting a profile of California’s current and projected population, selected health...
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Diversity in California’s Health Professions: Dentistry
07-01-08
California has become one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the country, and is projected to become even more so in the coming decades. This issue brief is one in a series of briefs presenting a profile of California’s current and projected population, selected health...
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EMS Workforce for the 21st Century: A National Assessment
06-13-08
Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics are a critical component of any community’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system. Assuring the continued viability of the prehospital EMS workforce is a key concern for many local, State, Federal, and tribal EMS agencies, as well as national...
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California’s Nursing Labor Force: Demand, Supply, and Shortages (2008)
06-01-08
In recent years, attention has focused on the nursing profession due to a crippling shortage of registered nurses (RNs) that has been reported throughout California, the United States, and in many other countries. California’s nursing shortage is among the most severe in the United States and many...
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Registered Dental Hygienists in Alternative Practice: Increasing Access to Dental Care in California
05-01-08
In 1998, California officially recognized a new dental health profession: the Registered Dental Hygienist in Alternative Practice (RDHAP). RDHAPs may practice unsupervised in homes, schools, residential facilities and other institutions, and in Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas. Recent...
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Diversity in California’s Health Professions: Physicians
05-01-08
Increasing racial and ethnic diversity in California’s physician workforce is a key component in the ongoing effort to address health disparities associated with race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. New physician workforce data show that despite decades of efforts to achieve this goal, little...
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Physician Diversity in California: New Findings from the California Medical Board Survey
03-01-08
A recent poll by the Field Research Corporation showed that six in ten voters agree that it is important for California to have enough health professionals who reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the patients they serve. This report examines data from the California Medical Board Relicensure...
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Diversity in California’s Health Professions: Current Status and Emerging Trends
03-01-08
California’s population is among the most racially and ethnically diverse in the U.S. However, policy makers, educators, foundations, and other stakeholders are concerned about how well this diverse population is represented among healthcare practitioners in key health professions and occupations....