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Recommendations for Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Workforce: A Report from the Field.

Published in Behavior analysis in practice

There has been increased interest and attention to the need for equity, diversity, and inclusion, in the field of applied behavior analysis in recent years. Several publications have focused on these topics and educational curricula and professional development opportunities have been developed. One aspect that has received less attention is how co...

Supporting the midwifery workforce: An evaluation of an undergraduate midwifery student employment model at a large tert...

Published in Women and birth : journal of the Australian College of Midwives

In 2020, in response to major maternity workforce challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Victorian Department of Health implemented a number of workforce maximisation strategies, one of which was employment of undergraduate midwifery students called 'Registered Undergraduate Student Of Midwifery' (RUSOM). To evaluate the RUSOM model i...

Revolutionizing Health Professions Admissions to Achieve an Inclusive Workforce.

This article describes the "The Admissions Revolution: Bold Strategies for Diversifying the Healthcare Workforce" conference, which preceded the 2022 Beyond Flexner Alliance Conference and called for health professions institutions to boldly reimagine the admission process to diversify the health care workforce. Proposed strategies encompassed 4 ke...

Supporting Virtual Supervision as Part of a Hybrid Workforce

More and more public child welfare agencies offer the opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, combining remote work with in-office work. This has raised questions among supervisors about how best to manage a remote workforce. Since research on virtual supervision is fairly limited relative to the popularity of remote work, studies are needed t...

'We don't live in a harm reduction world, we live in a prohibition world': tensions arising in the design of drug alerts...

Published in Harm reduction journal

Drug alerts designed for health and community workforces have potential to avert acute harms associated with unpredictable illicit drug markets, by preparing workers to respond to unusual drug-related events, and distribute information to service users. However, the design of such alerts is complicated by diverse needs of individuals, and broader s...

"Essential One Day and Forgotten the Next": Perceptions of Ohio's Early Childhood Workforce on Their Exclusion from the ...

Published in Early childhood education journal

This study explores Ohio Early Childhood and Care (ECEC) workers' perspectives about different prioritization for COVID-19 vaccine distribution between Ohio educators employed in ECEC and prek-12 settings. Days after Ohio's shutdown, ECEC programs began reopening for children of essential workers, and by June 2020 all ECEC programs could reopen wit...

Can veterinary medicine improve diversity in post-graduate training programs? Current state of academic veterinary medic...

The American Association of Veterinary Clinicians (AAVC) convened a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity working group in March 2021 to address the limited diversity (including but not limited to ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity) in clinical post-DVM graduate training programs and academic faculty. Concurrent with a working group formation, the...

What Can Child Welfare Leaders Do to Improve Job Satisfaction?

There is a saying, “a happy worker is a productive worker” and research suggests there is a modest relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. But what can child welfare leaders do to create a satisfied, productive workforce when the work is stressful, complex, and challenging? There is a lot of evidence on what employers should be a...

Characterizing the geographic distribution of vascular surgeons in the United States.

Published in Journal of vascular surgery

The shortage of vascular surgeons can be attributed to multiple factors, including an aging population, the increasing demand for vascular surgeons, and an aging vascular surgery workforce. The distribution of vascular surgeons across the United States varies by locale; thus, the shortage affects regions of different sizes disproportionately. We co...