Product type: presentation delivered to the AcademyHealth Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) on July 22, 2020. Authors: Jacqueline Nikpour, BSN, RN, Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Summary: North Carolina has been leading the nation in the shift to value-based healthcare, including the roll out of programs through the state’s Medicaid program that address the… Read more »
Comparing Hospital Nurse Settings from the 2018 NSSRN vs. 2008-2013 North Carolina Licensure Data
Product type: Policy brief released on Sheps Health Workforce NC website, July 2020. Authors: Esita Patel, PhD Summary: We analyzed the number of hospital nurses working in three settings (emergency department, inpatient, outpatient) using data from the 2018 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) and 2008-2013 licensure data from North Carolina (NC). The percent of… Read more »
Primary Care Teams: Past, Present and Future
Product type: Commentary published in the Journal of American Board of Family Medicine, June 2020. Authors: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Summary: Structural changes to primary care require retraining physicians and other providers to more effectively function in teams, remapping workflows, and redesigning care to allow for more collaboration between physicians and other health care professionals… Read more »
What EHRs Tell Us about How We Deploy Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health
Product type: publication in Social Work in Public Health Authors: Erica Richman, PhD, MSW, Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW, Lisa de Saxe Zerden, PhD, MSW Background: Increasing awareness of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) has prompted health systems to implement strategies to screen for and address patient SDOH. These resources are valuable for health systems but… Read more »
Preventive Medicine Physician Supply and Distribution
Product type: presentation to HRSA Preventive Medicine Residency Program Grantee Conference Call, May 19th, 2020. Authors: Thomas C. Ricketts, PhD, MPH, Deborah Porterfield, MD, MPH , Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Summary: Preventive Medicine (PM) is the specialty of medical practice that focuses on the health of individuals, communities, and defined populations. Its goal is to… Read more »
The Power of Data to Illuminate the Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Nursing Workforce
Product type: keynote presentation delivered at the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers on June 11th, 2020. Authors: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, with the with the Nursing Workforce Team. Summary: I believe in power of data to shape policy We are in uncharted waters Data and evidence must be our north star Pre Pandemic… Read more »
Will Community Health Centers Survive COVID‐19?
Product type: Commentary published in the Journal of Rural Health May, 2020. Authors: Brad Wright, PhD, Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Marni Gwyther Holder, MSN, Jill Akiyama, MSPH, Brian Toomey, MSW Summary: Federally qualified community health centers (CHCs) are the nation’s primary care safety net, serving a patient population of whom 68% have incomes below the… Read more »
Office Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT)—the Workforce Treating Opioid Use Disorder
Product type: publication in Health, Interprofessional Practice & Education Authors: Lisa de Saxe Zerden, PhD, Brianna Lombardi, MSW, Erica Richman, PhD, Anjalee Sharma, MSW. Background: The current opioid crisis in the United States is a recognized national health emergency. The number of opioid-related deaths has more than quadrupled since 1999. Over 42,000 individuals died from opioid use… Read more »
Ensuring and Sustaining a Pandemic Workforce
Product type: article published in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on April 8th, 2020 Authors: Erin P. Fraher, Ph.D., M.P.P., Patricia Pittman, Ph.D., Bianca K. Frogner, Ph.D., Joanne Spetz, Ph.D., Jean Moore, Dr.P.H., Angela J. Beck, Ph.D., M.P.H., David Armstrong, Ph.D., and Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N. Overview: Directors of publicly and privately funded workforce researcher centers, Bianca Frogner, PhD,… Read more »
Modernizing Scope-of-Practice Regulations — Time to Prioritize Patients
Product type: article published in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on February 13th, 2020. Authors: Bianca K. Frogner, Ph.D., Erin P. Fraher, Ph.D., M.P.P., Joanne Spetz, Ph.D., Patricia Pittman, Ph.D., Jean Moore, Dr.P.H., Angela J. Beck, Ph.D., M.P.H., David Armstrong, Ph.D., and Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N. Overview: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Bianca Frogner PhD and the directors of… Read more »
Developing Workforce Models and Data Visualizations that Engage, Educate and Provoke Policy Makers
Product type: Presentation at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Policy Lab Morning Speaker Series, January 23, 2020. Authors: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Overview: My frame: objective, “data agitating” workforce researcher and policy wonk A brief history of workforce projections—it hasn’t gone so well The science of projecting the “right” number of health professionals is still… Read more »
Social Work and Electronic Health Records: A New Frontier for Health Workforce Research
Product type: publication in Family, Systems & Health Authors: Lisa de Saxe Zerden, MSW, PhD, Erica L. Richman, MSW, PhD, Brianna M. Lombardi, MSW, PhD, Kim Shoenbill, MD, PhD, Erin Fraher, MPP, PhD. Introduction: As one of the largest groups of clinically trained mental health providers in the United States, social workers are increasingly deployed on integrated health… Read more »
How Data and Evidence Can (and Should!) Inform Scope of Practice
Product type: presentation to the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Health Policy Fellows on December 9th, 2019 Author: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Julie Spero, MSPH, Shikira THomas, MSPH, Evan Galloway, MPS, Heather Wilson, BA Summary: Scope of practice (SOP) battles are emerging with increased frequency Health professional regulation is state function result is significant variation… Read more »
A Transformed Health Care System Requires a Transformed Workforce
Product type: presentation to National Academy of Medicine Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Symposium, November 21st, 2019 Author: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Summary: New care models are not showing expected outcomes – potentially because we’re designing the workforce around health professions, not patients Care is shifting from acute to outpatients, community and home… Read more »
Shaping the Clinical Learning Environment to Meet the Evolving Needs of the Health Care System and Patients
Product type: presentation given at NexusSummit2019, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. August 19, 2018. Presenter: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP Summary: My frame I am a workforce researcher and policy wonk The context lots of uncertainty, lots of pressure and rapidly changing payment and care delivery models The health workforce is shifting to ambulatory… Read more »