Weathering the Practitioner Workforce Shortage

Can training reduce the rural workforce shortage?

The accuracy of general practitioner workforce projections

BACKGROUND Health workforce projections are important instruments to prevent imbalances in the health workforce. For both the tenability and further development of these projections, it is important to evaluate the accuracy of workforce projections. In The Netherlands, health workforce projections have been done since 2000 to support health workforce planning. What is the accuracy of the techni...

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.

A scoping review of the nurse practitioner workforce in oncology

The quality of cancer care may be compromised in the near future because of work force issues. Several factors will impact the oncology health provider work force: an aging population, an increase in the number of cancer survivors, and expansion of health care coverage for the previously uninsured. Between October 2014 and March 2015, an electronic literature search of English language articles...