This survey and its results were useful for developing targeted strategies for human resources management aiming at improving laboratory professionals' retention and therefore, the long-term sustainability of University of Maryland laboratory programmes.
Without integrating new strategies for laboratory professionals' retention, the numerous investments in expanding care and treatment will continue to have a substantial drain on resources due to the repetitive re-hiring, and re-training of new staff within the same laboratory.
Both high response rates and professional retention imply a potential for a thorough analysis of professional practice and occupational health.
Also, the relatively high response rate when the cohorts were formed, as well as subsequent high response rates and data suggesting high professional retention, imply a potential for a thorough analysis of professional practice and occupational health.
It was noted that this was having a negative effect on health professional retention and also on the public's attitude towards the health workforce, as one respondent explained: ' the HSE needs to start working with frontline health care staff instead of using the media to target us ' (RD287).
The aims are to increase numbers of healthcare professionals, improve retention of trained professionals, build capacity of existing faculty [ 14, 16] and strengthen locally relevant research [ 17].
A joint epilepsy clinic for young people 14 17 years coordinated by children's and adult services was more likely to influence young people's behaviour by facilitating more positive engagement with adult healthcare professionals and retention of epilepsy-related self-care information.
We interviewed 39 key participants of the SRAP, including the program director within each state and the principal subcontractors heading the program's funded initiatives that supported heath professionals' recruitment, retention and training, made loans to health care providers, and built networks among providers.
This study of community service officers is among the first to use multivariate statistical methods to parse out the influence of multiple factors on the placement, professional development, and retention of health professionals in South Africa.
In order to improve the quality of EC teachers and to retain qualified teaching staff, researchers (e.g., Kagan & Kauerz, 2008; Mitchell & LeMoine, 2005) and professional organizations (e.g., NAEYC) argue that more systematic and ongoing professional development and retention initiatives need to be implemented.
Ultimately, the solution to health professional emigration is retention, i.e. that source countries, such as Ireland, train and retain sufficient health professionals to staff their health system.
