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What Predicts Attitudes Toward New Workforce Models Among Underrepresented Minority Dentists?
07-29-15
What predicts attitudes toward new workforce models among underrepresented minority dentists? National Oral Health Conference. Oral Presentation
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Trends in the Licensed Practical Nurse Workforce from 2008 to 2013
07-29-15
The objective of this study was to assess trends in the supply and employment patterns of LPNs in the USA from 2008 to 2013.
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Nurse Staffing Ratios: Policy Options (in Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 7th edition, 2015)
07-29-15
Policy & Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 7th Edition is the leader in helping students develop skills in influencing policy in today’s changing health care environment. Approximately 150 expert contributors present a wide range of topics in this classic text, providing a more complete...
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California’s Medicaid Personal Care Assistants: Characteristics and Turnover among Family and Non-Family Caregivers
07-15-15
Personal care assistants (PCAs) provide supports and services that enable older adults and individuals with disabilities to remain in their homes and community settings. State Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services programs facilitate use of alternatives to institutional care by paying for...
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California’s Medicaid Personal Care Assistants: Characteristics and Turnover among Family and Non-Family Caregivers
07-15-15
Personal care assistants (PCAs) provide supports and services that enable older adults and individuals with disabilities to remain in their homes and community settings. State Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services programs facilitate use of alternatives to institutional care by paying for...
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Nursing in a Transformed Health Care System: New Roles, New Rules
06-26-15
Although the supply of nurses is likely to meet overall demand, the nature of a nurse’s job is changing dramatically. In redesigned health care systems, nurses are assuming expanded roles for a broad range of patients in ambulatory settings and communitybased care. These roles involve new...
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Positioning Medical Assistants for a Greater Role in the Era of Health Reform
06-13-15
Medical assistants (MAs) are one of the fastest-growing occupations in the United States. As of 2014 there were about 585,000 MAs in the United States, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected the MA workforce to grow by 29% from 2012 to 2022. The MA population is primarily female, ethnically...
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Future Demand For Long-Term Care Workers Will Be Influenced By Demographic and Utilization Changes
06-01-15
A looming question for policy makers is how growing diversity of the US elderly population and greater use of home and community-based services will affect demand for long-term care workers. We used national surveys to analyze current use and staffing of long-term care, project demand for long-term...
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Entry and Exit of Workers in Long-Term Care (webinar)
05-20-15
This webinar presents findings from a recent study conducted by the Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care at the University of California, San Francisco, on the job transitions of long-term care workers. The study used the Current Population Survey to examine from which jobs and...
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Preparing the Next Generation of Health Center Leaders: The Experience of the Clinic Leadership Institute's Emerging Leaders Program
05-01-15
Since its launch in 2008, the Clinic Leadership Institute Emerging Leaders Program (the Program) has been at the forefront of efforts to cultivate the leadership pipeline in California’s community health centers field. Created through a partnership between Blue Shield of California Foundation and...
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Medical Laboratory Technicians in California: Lessons from the Field
04-22-15
Licensed Medical Laboratory Technicians, or MLTs, are a relatively new occupation in California. In 2002, California legislation authorized the creation of the MLT job category (SB 1809) and delineated educational and licensing requirements. Although all other states and the US military have...
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Defining Competencies for Education in Health Care Value: Recommendations from the University of California, San Francisco Center for Healthcare Value Training Initiative
04-11-15
Leaders in medical education have increasingly called for the incorporation of cost awareness and health care value into health professions curricula. Emerging efforts have thus far focused on physicians, but foundational competencies need to be defined related to health care value that span all...
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Survey of Nursing Employers in California, Fall 2014
04-08-15
This report summarizes the findings from a survey of general acute care (GAC) hospital employers of registered nurses (RNs) in California conducted in fall 2014. This is the fifth annual survey of hospital RN employers; together these surveys provide an opportunity to evaluate overall demand for...
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How Many Nurse Practitioners Provide Primary Care? It Depends On How You Count Them
04-08-15
This study compares different approaches to measuring the number of nurse practitioners (NPs) providing primary care services using data from the 2012 U.S. National Sample Survey of Nurse Practitioners, North Carolina licensing data from 2011, and a 2010 California survey of nurse practitioners and...
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California Board of Registered Nursing 2013-2014: A Presentation of Post-Licensure Nursing Education Programs in California
04-06-15
The California Board of Registered Nursing Annual Schools Survey collects data about nursing programs and their students and faculty from August 1 through July 31. This report focuses on post-licensure education programs.
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California Board of Registered Nursing 2013-2014 Annual School Report: Data Summary and Historical Trend Analysis
04-06-15
The Annual School Report provides data about registered nurse education programs in California. The reports are published annually, and each new report includes historic data.
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Asian Health Services: Medical Assistants Improve Language Access and Patient-Centered Care
04-03-15
Asian Health Services (AHS) is an urban federally-qualified health center in Oakland, California. It has developed new roles for medical assistants and other frontline staff to capitalize on their language capacity and other skills to provide health coaching and health navigation services to an...
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Salary Differences Between Male and Female Registered Nurses in the United States
03-24-15
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, the male-female salary gap has narrowed in many occupations. Yet pay inequality persists for certain occupations, including medicine and nursing. Studies have documented salary differences across clinical settings for diverse cohorts of physicians and higher...
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Tracking Workforce Diversity in Dentistry: Importance, Methods, and Challenges
03-06-15
Concern abounds about whether the health care workforce is sufficient to meet changing demands spurred by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We project that by 2022 the health care industry needs three to four million additional workers, forty percent of which is related to demand growth under the ACA...
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The Demand for Health Care Workers Post-ACA
03-06-15
Concern abounds about whether the health care workforce is sufficient to meet changing demands spurred by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We project that by 2022 the health care industry needs three to four million additional workers, forty percent of which is related to demand growth under the ACA...
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Doctor of Nursing Practice by 2015: An Examination of Nursing Schools’ Decisions to Offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree
03-01-15
OBJECTIVES: The American Association of Colleges of Nursing recommends that nursing schools transition their advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) programs to doctor of nursing practice (DNP) programs by 2015. However, most schools have not yet made this full transition. The purpose of this...
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Entry and Exit of Workers in Long-Term Care
01-20-15
In the past decade, the health care industry, and long-term care (LTC) in particular, saw substantial job growth. In anticipation of growing demand for LTC due to an aging demographic, employment opportunities in LTC are expected to surpass those of other U.S. sectors. Workforce planners are...
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Comparison of Nurse Staffing Measurements in Staffing-Outcomes Research
01-01-15
BACKGROUND: Investigators have used a variety of operational definitions of nursing hours of care in measuring nurse staffing for health services research. However, little is known about which approach is best for nurse staffing measurement.
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether various nursing hours...
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Certified Nursing Assistant Programs in California: A Survey of Community Colleges
12-17-14
Community colleges in California play an important role in providing accessible degree and non-degree education and training programs for a range of nursing and allied health professions. Certified nursing assisting (CNA) is one such non-degree program offered in community colleges across the State...
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Using Employer Surveys to Assess Health Workforce Demand. Health Workforce Technical Assistance Center Webinar
12-16-14
Effective health workforce planning requires a basic understanding about the supply and demand for health workers. This webinar presents strategies used in three states—Florida, New York, and California—to monitor demand for health workers using employer surveys.
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Reflections and Responses: Six Models for Understanding How Families Experience the System of Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs
11-13-14
During the spring and summer of 2013, some 61 stakeholders—including 52 parents of children with special heath care needs and nine providers and policymakers—were systematically interviewed for their responses to and reflections on six ethnographic models produced for the Lucile Packard Foundation...
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Training Pharmacy Leaders: How Educators Can Help Develop Agents of Change
11-10-14
The forces at play in today's health care environment are unprecedented. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), with its yet-to-be-defined impact on care deliver, the recent passage of California Senate Bill 493 (SB 493), and the "triple aim" goal to deliver better care to more people at a lower cost, are...
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Electronic Health Record Availability Among Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and Physicians
11-01-14
OBJECTIVES: To characterize availability of electronic health records (EHRs) at the primary practice locations of certified nurse midwives (CNMs), nurse practitioners (NPs), and physicians in California prior to the implementation of the state's Medicaid EHR incentive program.
STUDY DESIGN AND...
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Dental Workforce Capacity and California's Expanding Pediatric Medicaid Population
11-01-14
The number of children eligible for Medicaid dental coverage in California will increase to nearly 5 million because of the Affordable Care Act the transition of nearly 880,000 children from California's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to Medicaid. This study assesses the dental capacity...
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Leader States in Personal Care Aide Training Standards
10-31-14
This report highlights seven “leader states” in training standards for Medicaid-funded personal care aides (PCAs). Although our previous research has demonstrated a paucity of standards in most states, a few have engaged in a rational approach to designing PCA training standards with the goal of...