Publication on the travel nurse workforce now available with recording available soon!
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27.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Research Alert: Beyond the #Pandemic: The Relationship Between Macroeconomic Conditions and Healthcare Worker Shortages in the United States
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01.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New health workforce data available from our Washington Health Workforce Sentinel Network!
*Explore the latest data
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11.09.2025 19:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Research Alert: Who Is Leaving the Emergency Medical Services Workforce?
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08.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Research Alert: Why Public Health #Nurses Matter: Bringing Specialized Knowledge and Skills to Advancing Health Equity
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21.07.2025 13:33 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Our June Newsletter is here! With the 2025 AcademyHealth (@academyhealth.bsky.social) Annual Research Meeting (#ARM2025) this upcoming weekend, you can find where and when our UW CHWS team will be presenting and so much more.
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05.06.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Noncitizens Estimated to Make Up 5% of Healthcare Workforce
Home healthcare may be especially at risk for severe worker shortage due to Trump’s deportation push.
In a @medscape.com article, Director Frogner (@biancafrogner.bsky.social) reflects on @jama.com article estimating the size of the immigrant workforce, including the number of undocumented workers, in healthcare.
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07.04.2025 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Nurse Officers in U.S. Public Health Services have a wide-range of responsibilities, according to our study published in Nursing Outlook that describes this workforce, their roles, and the utility of “job function” questions for measuring the broader public health nursing workforce.
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28.03.2025 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
In work led by Dr. Rachel Prusynski (@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social), the team found significant changes in staffing as nursing home ownership changed. The findings published in JAMDA were highlighted in McKnight's Long Term Care News: www.mcknights.com/news/nursing...
05.03.2025 17:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you for highlighting our team's recent study, Julia Robinson @juliarobinson.bsky.social!
05.03.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Navigators have been critical in supporting people in finding health insurance, but they've struggled with the low investment in their jobs/careers, hindering their progress. Rather than cut the program, more investments are needed. See 2 papers below diving into the issues...
18.02.2025 06:43 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
In April, @nationalacademies.org will hold a workshop on the affordability of health professional education with lessons from around the globe on how to address this barrier. Pre-workshops are also being coordinated. Register today!
www.nationalacademies.org/event/43894_...
25.01.2025 00:07 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
In a survey & interviews with home care workers, our team heard about a number of benefits offered - often temporarily - during the pandemic. Unions played an important role in obtaining these benefits. Providing these benefits, including paid sick leave, is critical for health workforce retention.
23.12.2024 20:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In Part 1 of Health Affairs Scholar special issue (@healthaffairs.bsky.social), our team has 2 studies on (1) the importance of community health centers in providing perinatal care and (2) the financial well-being of healthcare workers, particularly during the pandemic.
27.01.2025 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
*Webinar this THURSDAY!*
Hear what's needed to support our pharmacy workforce with presentation by Prof. Jenny Bacci, discussion with community pharmacy owner Ryan Oftebro, and moderating by Prof. Peggy Odegard.
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27.01.2025 18:32 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
US Home Care Worker’s Access to and Use of Benefits During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study – UW CHWS
Paid leave is a critical benefit needed by healthcare workers, which became ever-apparent during the pandemic. Work led by CHWS investigator Danbi Lee identified how this and other benefits evolved during the pandemic and beyond.
familymedicine.uw.edu/chws/publica...
#homehealth #paidleave
23.12.2024 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The December 2024 UW CHWS Newsletter Is Out Now! – UW CHWS
Grab a warm cup of coffee, snuggle by the fire, and read what our team has been up to over the last few months in our December newsletter! ☕☃️
familymedicine.uw.edu/chws/2024/12...
12.12.2024 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Career pathways into the medical laboratory workforce: Education, exposures, and motivations
AbstractObjectives. The goal of this study was to investigate career pathways into the medical laboratory workforce by examining medical laboratory scienti
The "medical lab workforce" encompasses many professions. Our team unpacks 6 of these, highlighting the challenges of being visible as a field and the lack of career paths. Yet once in their career, these workers are overall satisfied with their jobs. academic.oup.com/ajcp/advance...
10.12.2024 19:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Also follow the Center for Health Workforce Studies at University of Washington (@uwchws.bsky.social) to hear more about the work my wonderful team is doing (many of whom are not on social media).
04.12.2024 18:52 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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