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A Cross-Disciplinary Statewide Healthcare Workforce Analysis
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Journal of Allied Health
- Article date:
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July 1, 2008
- Author:
- Rambur, Betty; Palumbo, Mary Val; McIntosh, Barbara; Thomas, Colleen
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Copyright informationCopyright Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A statewide study was conducted to examine the healthcare workforce from the perspectives of the individual healthcare worker and employer as a basis for evidence-based workforce planning. The workforce minimum data set recommended by Colleagues in Caring was used to analyze job satisfaction, intention to leave current position, intention to leave profession, and reasons for such intentions in members of four professions (medical laboratorians, respiratory therapists, radiographers, and registered nurses) in a rural state. Statewide hospital vacancy and turnover rates for these disciplines also were analyzed. The study found that an aging workforce exists across these four healthcare ...