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About: Workforce is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 32140 publications have been published within this topic receiving 449850 citations. The topic is also known as: labour force & labor force.


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TL;DR: The structure and activities of the National Research Mentoring Network are described, which serve as a national training hub for mentors and mentees striving to improve their relationships by better aligning expectations, promoting professional development, maintaining effective communication, addressing equity and inclusion, assessing understanding, fostering independence, and cultivating ethical behavior.
Abstract: Effective mentorship is critical to the success of early stage investigators, and has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, and career satisfaction. The mission of the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) is to provide all trainees across the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences with evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming that emphasizes the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity, and culture within mentoring relationships, and more broadly the research workforce. The purpose of this paper is to describe the structure and activities of NRMN. NRMN serves as a national training hub for mentors and mentees striving to improve their relationships by better aligning expectations, promoting professional development, maintaining effective communication, addressing equity and inclusion, assessing understanding, fostering independence, and cultivating ethical behavior. Training is offered in-person at institutions, regional training, or national meetings, as well as via synchronous and asynchronous platforms; the growing training demand is being met by a cadre of NRMN Master Facilitators. NRMN offers career stage-focused coaching models for grant writing, and other professional development programs. NRMN partners with diverse stakeholders from the NIH-sponsored Diversity Program Consortium (DPC), as well as organizations outside the DPC to work synergistically towards common diversity goals. NRMN offers a virtual portal to the Network and all NRMN program offerings for mentees and mentors across career development stages. NRMNet provides access to a wide array of mentoring experiences and resources including MyNRMN, Guided Virtual Mentorship Program, news, training calendar, videos, and workshops. National scale and sustainability are being addressed by NRMN “Coaches-in-Training” offerings for more senior researchers to implement coaching models across the nation. “Shark Tanks” provide intensive review and coaching for early career health disparities investigators, focusing on grant writing for graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and junior faculty. Partners from diverse perspectives are building the national capacity and sparking the institutional changes necessary to truly diversify and transform the biomedical research workforce. NRMN works to leverage resources towards the goals of sustainability, scalability, and expanded reach.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the assumptions underlying STEM workforce studies as it pertains to gender, race, class, and citizenship, and argue that the pipeline model has a limited view of retention that is based upon socially constructed ideas about what constitutes “valid” scientific and engineering work and who counts as real scientists and engineers.
Abstract: In this critical review of the literature, I interrogate the assumptions underlying STEM workforce studies as it pertains to gender, race, class, and citizenship. First, I provide a brief overview of the pipeline model’s history and critiques. Next, I look at the contemporary use of the model in STEM workforce studies, focusing on the ways in which recruitment and retention, scientific work, and identity are represented, measured, and understood. I argue throughout that the pipeline model has a limited view of retention that is based upon socially constructed ideas about what constitutes “valid” scientific and engineering work and who counts as “real” scientists and engineers.

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TL;DR: Critical care pharmacists are recognized as essential members of the critical care team as a result of contributions to medication safety, improved patient outcomes, and reduced drug costs and as a source of drug information and provider of education.
Abstract: Objective:To review the history, training requirements, contributions to patient care outcomes, and workforce issues of critical care pharmacists.Data Source and Selection:Literature obtained through Medline search with manual cross-referencing.Data Extraction and Synthesis:Original and selected rev

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TL;DR: The current health care reform bills seek to expand the role of incentives, which promise a win–win bargain: employees enjoy better health, while employers reduce health care costs and profit from a healthier workforce, but these provisions cannot be given an ethical free pass.
Abstract: Chronic conditions, especially those associated with overweight, are on the rise in the United States (as elsewhere). Employers have used both carrots and sticks to encourage healthier behavior. The current health care reform bills seek to expand the role of incentives, which promise a win–win bargain: employees enjoy better health, while employers reduce health care costs and profit from a healthier workforce. However, these provisions cannot be given an ethical free pass. In some cases, the incentives are really sticks dressed up as carrots. There is a risk of inequity that would further disadvantage the people most in need of . . .

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TL;DR: The ease with which nurses gained UK registration and integrated into the nursing workforce was influenced by the characteristics of the work environment, level of support, and organizational context.
Abstract: Background: The growth in overseas nurse recruitment to address staff shortages in the United Kingdom (UK) has led to the proliferation of adaptation programmes for overseas nurses to gain appropriate experience and enable them register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. This paper reports on selected findings from an independent evaluation of an adaptation programme for overseas Registered Nurses offered by a large acute National Health Service trust. Aim: This paper reports on a study to evaluate the programme with reference to its objectives, outcomes and overall success from the perspective of various stakeholders. Methods: A pluralistic evaluation research model was adopted to identify the criteria that stakeholders used to judge the success of an adaptation programme, and then to use these criteria to judge the programme in question. Data were collected by means of focus group and individual in-depth interviews with overseas nurses, ward managers, mentors, senior nurse managers and educators over a 12 month period and analysed by drawing on the principles of dimensional analysis. The criteria for success identified by the various stakeholders provided a framework through which the overall success of the initiative could be judged. Findings: Five meanings of success were identified: gaining professional registration; fitness for practice; reducing the nurse vacancy factor; equality of opportunity and promoting an organizational culture that values diversity. Key findings relating to each of these are presented. The ease with which nurses gained UK registration and integrated into the nursing workforce was influenced by the characteristics of the work environment, level of support, and organizational context. Conclusion: Industrialized nations recruiting from the global nursing market need to invest in providing appropriate support to enable overseas nurses to adapt to working in a different health care system and social and cultural context.

100 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20234,031
20228,033
20212,082
20202,042
20191,856
20181,721