Presentations

Audience: National Nurse-led Care Consortium & National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers Joint Virtual Conference
Date: June 9, 2021, 5:30 pm
Presented by: Kristen Stiegler

Health workforce diversity has important implications for achieving health equity. This poster examines the diversity of nurse practitioners in New York State, including demographic and educational characteristics as well as distribution. Highlighting improvements and remaining challenges, this research is vital for those addressing structural racism, health inequity, and cultural competence in the health workforce.

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Audience: National Nurse-led Care Consortium & National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers Joint Virtual Conference
Date: June 10, 2021, 6:00 pm
Presented by: David Armstrong

The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially impacted the US health care delivery system and health workforce. This presentation examines how different states responded to health workforce needs during the early stages of the pandemic, to assure an adequate supply of health workers and to expand access to care for needed services.

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Audience: AcademyHealth’s 2021 Annual Research Meeting
Date: June 14-17, 2021
Presented by: Simona Surdu

(Poster #450)
Dental therapy is a relatively new workforce model in which the clinician is trained to perform preventive and basic restorative dental services. This poster describes and compares the type and quantity of services provided by dentists before and after the introduction of dental therapy at Apple Tree Dental in Minnesota, a large non-profit community dental provider. Findings suggest that the introduction of dental therapists to clinical teams enhances capacity and productivity, enabling dental providers to meet increasing demand from patient populations.

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