Given the global nursing shortage and investments to scale-up the workforce, this study evaluated trends in annual student nurse enrolment, pre-service attrition between enrolment and registration, and factors that influence nurse production in Kenya.
Since the SGP network is representative of the national workforce, this study demonstrates that Belgian GPs are moving back from the first line of care for patients who have engaged in suicidal behaviour.
As an attempt to identify measures to enhance the work performance and retention of the health workforce, this study addresses two research questions: (1) how health workers perceive their work on HIV response in Vietnam; and (2) what factors influence their job satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
By taking into account national and local human resource (HR) and health system (HS) policies and practices already in place, 'bundles' of HR/HS strategies - such as task shifting, training, supervision and monitoring - are developed with respect to specific health workforce problems in the study districts.
"When [NIH Director] Francis Collins asked me to co-chair the workforce study in 2010," Tilghman recalls, "I said, 'Francis, this is my swan song.
As MOHSW works to increase the number of physicians and PAs, it is using findings from the workforce optimization study to formalize task-shifting opportunities.
As a first step in identifying the optimal structure of the nation's medical workforce, our study informs the USA policy by providing new information about national trends in the PA workforce from 1980 to 2007.
And there are non-traditional students -- people leaving the workforce to study and change careers or mothers returning to school after raising a family.
"These findings suggest that in addition to transmitting gender attitudes across generations, mothers' employment teaches daughters a set of skills that enable greater participation in the workforce and in leadership positions," the study argues.
