The Laboratory Workforce Shortage

Can training reduce the rural workforce shortage?

The nursing workforce shortage: causes, consequences, proposed solutions.

Introduction R egistered nurses (RNs) are the single largest group of health care professionals in the United States. Current and projected nursing shortages reflect the fact that fewer people are entering the profession. Shortages are difficult to estimate and project. In the past, shortages have tended to be resolved as wages rose in response to increased need for RNs. In addition, there is a...

Finding healing hands: the global health workforce shortage

Sally Murray is an associate editor of Open Medicine.

Building a laboratory workforce to meet the future: ASCP Task Force on the Laboratory Professionals Workforce.

OBJECTIVES To analyze the demand for services from the nation's medical laboratories, which is predicted to dramatically increase as our citizens age and millions receive insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act. METHODS A systematic review of relevant publications and databases was conducted to assess the current state of the nation's medical laboratory workforce and to examine the...

Cardiology's workforce shortage: implications for patient care and research.

The common wisdom at the end of the 20th century was that the United States was training too many specialists, including cardiologists.1 By 2001, however, there was increasing evidence that the supply of cardiologists was not meeting the growing demand. That year, as presidentelect of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), I appointed a task force to evaluate cardiology workforce. The task f...