Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy

The Program on Health Workforce is taking on LinkedIn! The Workforce Program at University of North Carolina Sheps Center for Health Services Research encompasses multiple centers that are all dedicated to supporting a workforce for health through policy-relevant research and data that address emerging workforce topics and issues! ? What’s in store on our page: Newsletter & presentation announcements, publication & data alerts, and other news! ? Find our website here: https://lnkd.in/dJwJUMr3 Sign-up for our quarterly newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dqfNFMaX Navigate to the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center LinkedIn page: https://lnkd.in/d3FB4GNU

The Center for Health Workforce Studies just released the 2024 Health Workforce Research Center (HWRC) Annual Report which highlights the work produced by HRSA-funded HWRCs. The report highlights 8 CHWRC (https://lnkd.in/de7dmeiW) projects completed in Year 11 (2022-2023). These projects focused on graduate medical education, physician burnout and well-being, social work data sources, nursing turnover, and the impacts of COVID-19 on primary care service delivery. Read the report to learn more about what we accomplished: https://lnkd.in/gpckbZ-u.

On September 26th, Health Professions Data System Director Dr. Catherine Moore and Research Associate/Data Analyst Dr. Connor Sullivan were honored to present the results of our Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Workforce study to the North Carolina Board of Nursing. With support from the NCBON, Sheps Health Workforce conducted a study on the demographic, education, practice, and geographic characteristics of the North Carolina APRN Workforce. The information generated from the study will help policy makers and nurse leaders make critical decisions about the future education, regulation, and deployment of the APRN workforce in North Carolina’s rapidly changing health care system. View the study report: https://lnkd.in/dXBC895f Read the about the study on our website: https://lnkd.in/dCB7Pnwa Watch the presentation: https://lnkd.in/esMxkdj4

???New APRN report released Sheps Health Workforce conducted a study on the North Carolina Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) workforce with support from the North Carolina Board of Nursing. The study team, Erin Fraher, Connor Sullivan, Catherine Moore, Tony Kane, Andy Knapton, Lorinda Coombs, and Evan Galloway used NC licensure data from the NCBON to describe the demographic, education, practice, and geographic characteristics of Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), and Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) in North Carolina from 2013 to 2022. The report, ?????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????: ?? ???????????? ???? ?????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ?????????? ?????????????????? ???? ?????????? ????????????????, details the findings of the study. The information generated from the study will help policy makers and nurse leaders make critical decisions about the future education, regulation, and deployment of the APRN workforce in North Carolina’s rapidly changing health care system. View the report: https://lnkd.in/dXBC895f View the announcement on our website: https://lnkd.in/dCB7Pnwa

?? New Data Released ?? The 2023 Health Professions Data System supply data are live! https://lnkd.in/dB-NkS96 The North Carolina Health Professions Data System (HPDS) represents a longstanding collaborative relationship between Sheps Health Workforce and NC licensure boards, dating back to 1979.?With funding from NC AHEC, the HPDS team collects, cleans, analyzes, and disseminates annual licensure data on demographic, practice, and geographic characteristics of 21 NC health professions. Download data: https://lnkd.in/espr3r6p Have questions? Want to make a formal data request for NC health workforce licensure data? Email [email protected]

Our newsletter is live! ?? ?? Curious about what we’ve been working on this summer? Explore our latest publications, conference presentations and achievements. View the newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dgEVxaDd Don’t want to miss future updates? Sign-up for the newsletter here: https://eepurl.com/gJyAtL

We are proud to announce the newest member of the Sheps Health Workforce team! Catherine Moore, PhD, MSN, RN recently joined the Program for Health Workforce Research and Policy in April as the Director of Sheps Health Workforce NC and the North Carolina Health Professions Data System. In this role, she will lead state health workforce initiatives in the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy and serve as the team’s point person for legislators, state officials, licensure boards, and other state policy makers. Dr. Moore has a PhD in nursing, MSN in nursing administration, and BSN from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to joining the Sheps Center, Dr. Moore worked in clinical nursing practice, administration, regulation, policy, and research. Dr. Moore has 21 years of nursing experience with a clinical background in neonatal intensive care. She has published and presented on policies that promote access to healthcare and the safe delivery of healthcare services. Her research and professional interests include healthcare workforce, policy, regulation, safety, and interprofessional collaboration. Please join us in welcoming Catherine Moore to the Sheps Health Workforce team!

?? Sheps Health Workforce Researcher Spotlight: Dr. Tania Jenkins?? Dr. Tania Jenkins was recently awarded an honorable mention for 2024 Best Publication from the American Sociological Association’s Section on the Sociology of Mental Health for her manuscript, "Physicians as shock absorbers: The system of structural factors driving burnout and dissatisfaction in medicine." This ethnographic study applies a socioecological framework to an 8-month study of a general pediatrics clinic to investigate how drivers of burnout at societal, organizational, and professional levels work together as a system to shape physician wellbeing. Findings indicate that individual physicians effectively serve as shock absorbers, routinely absorbing countless, interconnected structural demands (“shocks”) and converting them into competent medical care, at significant cost to their mental health. The CHWRC is proud to fund this important work! Find the manuscript here: https://lnkd.in/d-BV4dxS Dr. Jenkins also received the 2024 Southern Sociological Society's Junior Scholar Award at the annual meeting in New Orleans in April (pictured below), a testament of her scholarly work making a significant contribution to the field. Headed to #ASA2024? View the program to find Dr. Jenkins' presentations: https://lnkd.in/drQXxyfT

?? New Sheps Health Workforce Presentation ?? This morning, Sheps Health Workforce Research Associate/Data Analyst, Connor Sullivan, delivered a presentation at the NC Oral Health Collaborative's Oral Health Day. His presentation, "The Oral Health Workforce in NC: Supply is Improving, but Distribution and Diversity Remain Challenges," detailed the training and practice patterns of the NC oral health workforce. ?? Interested in learning more about NC's oral health workforce? Dive into our blogs on the Sheps Health Workforce NC website: https://lnkd.in/diFzRKSP

?? New Publication Alert ?? When Interruption Becomes Innovation: How Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Adapted During COVID-19 was just published in Family Medicine: https://lnkd.in/dfqFXhNE This manuscript, authored by Brianna Lombardi, Lisa Zerden, Danya K., Sundania W., and Erica Richman is a product of a Carolina Health Workforce Research Center Year 9 study. Find the list of the CHWRC projects here to view the project abstract and policy brief: https://lnkd.in/dk3WnaVE