Workforce

COVID-19 has taken a tremendous emotional and physical toll on clinicians. Throughout the pandemic, clinicians have grappled with daily changes in clinical knowledge, high volumes of patients, limited resources and anxiety about the health of their families, friends and themselves.

More than half of front-line healthcare workers, 52 percent, said they had received at least their first COVID-19 vaccine dose as of early March, a new national survey by Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post found. 

The healthcare workforce declined 3.5 percent between February 2020, before the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and February 2021, according to an analysis released March 17 by nonprofit researchers Altarum.

More than 20 percent of healthcare workers experienced anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder during the pandemic, according to new research published March 10 in PLOS One.

Community exposure to COVID-19 appears to be a bigger source of antibody positivity for healthcare workers than exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace, according to a study published March 10 in JAMA Network Open.

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health has created a certified nursing assistant training program and started a nurse residency program to meet its need for more employees, the organization confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Between now and March 20, hundreds of U.S. counties will need crisis workforce strategies because of intensive care unit shortages of critical care physician specialists, a new analysis estimates.

Healthcare added 19,900 jobs in February, although hospitals lost jobs for the second month since September, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Provider organizations are constantly onboarding new employees. Hiring physicians and nurses tends to be far more complicated than filling other positions. That's because before healthcare professionals are able to see patients and before the provider can bill for a professional's…

More than 1,100 attacks and threats of violence against medical workers, patients, healthcare facilities and transport took place worldwide in 2020, and about 400 appear to be specifically related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.