Diversity Is Much More Than A Workforce Issue

2002 ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
Nicole Gundlach ◽  
Pamela Koseck
Keyword(s):  
Workforce Issue

scholarly journals Getting the Science Right on the Surgeon Workforce Issue

2011 ◽  
Vol 146 (4) ◽  
pp. 381 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Etzioni
Keyword(s):  
Workforce Issue

scholarly journals Environmental health in Australia: overlooked and underrated

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Whiley ◽  
E Willis ◽  
J Smith ◽  
K Ross
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
Workforce Issue

Abstract Improvements in environmental health have had the most significant impact on health status. In Australia, life expectancy has significantly increased through provision of vaccination, safe food and drinking water, appropriate sewage disposal and other environmental health measures. Yet the profession that is instrumental in delivering environmental health services at the local community level is overlooked. Rarely featuring in mainstream media, the successes of Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) are invisible to the general public. As a consequence, students entering university are unaware of the profession and its significant role in society. This has resulted in there being too few EHOs to meet the current regulatory requirements, much less deal with the emerging environmental health issues arising as a consequence of changing global conditions including climate change. To futureproof Australian society and public health this workforce issue, and the associated oversight of environmental health must be addressed now.

scholarly journals Deeply Discrediting: A Systematic Review Examining the Conceptualizations and Consequences of the Stigma of Working in Aged Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmita V Manchha ◽  
Nicole Walker ◽  
Kïrsten A Way ◽  
Danielle Dawson ◽  
Ken Tann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Societal Challenge ◽  
Design And Methods ◽  
Workforce Issue

Abstract Background and Objectives The stigma of working in aged care can discredit and devalue those working in gerontology. This overlooked workforce issue may underpin complex staffing challenges like chronic worker shortages and inadequate care delivery. Our review synthesizes the existing literature and introduces a conceptual framework based on linguistics to reconcile disparate conceptualizations and negative consequences of this stigma. Research Design and Methods We conducted a systematic review and assessed peer-reviewed articles published from 1973 to 2019 across 5 databases. Fifty-nine articles were selected based on criteria grounded in stigma theory. Results Only 10 articles explicitly used the term “stigma” when conceptualizing the stigma of working in aged care. An additional 49 articles conceptualized this stigma in terms of stigma processes (e.g., status loss). Findings from a deeper examination using a linguistic analysis revealed societal groups predominantly conceptualized stigma in 3 distinct ways based on (a) unfavorable character judgment of aged care workers, (b) lower value placed on aged care work, and (c) negative emotional reactions towards working in aged care. Last, stigma was associated with adverse psychological and job-related consequences. Discussion and Implications Reconceptualizing this workforce issue and recognizing it as a societal challenge will enable policymakers to design evidence-based interventions at industry and societal levels. We propose workforce challenges in the aged care sector such as attraction, retention, and well-being may lessen with interventions aimed at mitigating the stigma of working in aged care.

scholarly journals Building Nursing Knowledge to Meet the Needs of Disruptive Technology Healthcare Re-Design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Procter ◽  
Ursula Hübner ◽  
Changrong Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Nursing Workforce ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Nursing Knowledge ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Workforce Issue

This paper provides a discourse based upon the key development of nursing in response to the emerging 4Ds of health technology re-design. Building informatics capability among health professionals is a workforce issue necessitated through the increasing prevalence of information technology and digitization of healthcare affecting the entire health workforce, specifically front-line nurses. The key concepts will be explored of Digitization, Distribution, Disruption and Diversity, a framework recognising the tsunami of technology such as Big Data analytics, comprehensive decision support systems for nursing, nanobots, robotics, and pharmacogenomics and the impact these have upon the nursing workforce.

A Study of Childcare Teacher Retention in the Childcare Service Industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philly Pek-Greer ◽  
Michelle Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Teacher Retention ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Employee Benefits ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Teachers Perspectives ◽  
Workforce Issue ◽  
Significant Factors

There is relatively little research on teacher retention in the Singaporean early childhood industry, yet this is an important workforce issue because of the rapid expansion of childcare centres to meet the growing needs of parents in Singapore. This qualitative study aims to identify the dominant, contemporary factors that influence childcare teachers’ intentions to continue working in the Singaporean childcare industry. The unit of analysis is the individual; hence, the focus of investigation is on the lived experiences of current childcare teachers in the Singaporean workforce. This study provides important insights into childcare teachers’ perspectives on their work and factors that influence them in decisions about whether to continue working in the childcare sector in Singapore. In total, 102 qualified childcare teachers participated in this qualitative study. In summary, it was found that significant factors such as employee remuneration, employee benefits, work environment and professional development opportunities influence childcare teachers’ retention in the Singaporean early childhood industry.

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