2012-05-24T14:56:47Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/health-care-workforce-supply-and-distribution.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120097.html Apr 1, 2012 Apr 1, 2012

The substantial expansion in the RN workforce between 2005 and 2010 is largely a temporary bubble that is likely to burst between 2010 and 2015 as the unemployment rate falls.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120058.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

The nurse practitioner (NP) workforce in the United States is expected to grow dramatically by 2025, easing concerns about a potential looming nursing shortage and suggesting that NPs will fill a substantial amount of future need for care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9635.html Dec 13, 2011 Dec 13, 2011

Since Massachusetts enacted health reform legislation in 2006, health care employment in the state has grown more rapidly than in the rest of the United States, primarily in administrative positions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100272.html Dec 5, 2011 Dec 5, 2011

The number of people aged 23 to 26—primarily women—who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s. This trend should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/12/05.html Dec 5, 2011 Dec 5, 2011

The number of people aged 23 to 26—primarily women—who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s. This trend should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100185.html Aug 31, 2011 Aug 31, 2011

Analysis of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan suggests national health care reform may require larger numbers of support personnel, rather than requiring greater numbers of physicians and nurses themselves.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110061.html Apr 19, 2011 Apr 19, 2011

Health services research has made many important contributions, but it has not revolutionized the way that medicine is practiced to increase its value and moderate costs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000195.html Aug 31, 2010 Aug 31, 2010

Only 42 percent of the 354 million annual visits in the U.S. for acute care—treatment for newly arising health problems—are made to patients' personal physicians. The rest are made to emergency departments (28 percent), specialists (20 percent), or outpatient departments (7 percent).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100147.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

<p>Strategic decisionmaking about the capacity of emergency departments should be based on measures of patient safety, such as the number of patients who leave without treatment because of ED crowding.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR699.html Oct 21, 2009 Oct 21, 2009

<p>Direct service workers (DSWs) provide personal care or nonmedical services to individuals who need assistance with activities of daily living. Direct service work is low-paying and very physically and emotionally demanding, and turnover rates among DSWs are high. In 2003&ndash;2004, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services funded ten efforts to increase recruitment and retention among DSWs. This volume evaluates these efforts.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070806.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

<p>To examine whether basing regionalization on risk-adjusted mortality would lead to better population outcomes than basing regionalization on procedure volume.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070622.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

<p>OC is an important determinant of ITL among ICU nurses. Because higher wages do not reduce ITL, increased pay alone without attention to OC is likely insufficient to reduce nurse turnover. Implementing interventions aimed at creating a positive OC, as found in Magnet hospitals, may be a more effective strategy.</p>

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<em>Associate Natural Scientist</em><br>M.D., Columbia University; M.Sc. in health policy, planning, and finance, London School of Economics &amp; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; M.H.S. in health services research, Yale University; B.A. in English Literature, Stanford University

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<em>Associate Policy Researcher</em><br>Ph.D. in health services research, University of Amsterdam; MSc in epidemiology, NIHES, Erasmus University Rotterdam; M.D., University of Ibadan, Nigeria