title: The state of the health care workforce.
abstract: The shortage of health care workers has emerged as one of the field's biggest long-term challenges. The number of nurses, technicians, pharmacists and even housekeeping staff is on the way down, and worker dissatisfaction is on the way up. The health care workforce is slowly vanishing, and those workers who remain are unhappy. In this special fold-out section, Hospitals & Health Networks looks at this complex problem by analyzing how serious it really is and how bad it's going to get, taking a look at workers' frustration, and offering tips and resources to start to fix it.
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authors.lastname: Selvam
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital; D014481:United States