McGinnis SL, Zoske FM. The emerging role of faith community nurses in prevention and management of chronic disease. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice. 2008;9(3):173-180.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527154408322560
Faith community nursing, formerly known as parish nursing, is one model of care that relies heavily on older registered nurses (RNs) to provide population-based and other nonclinical services in community settings. Faith community nursing provides services not commonly available in the traditional health care system (e.g., community case management, community advocacy, community health education). With appropriate support, this model of nursing could be expanded into other settings within the community and has the potential to draw on the skills of experienced RNs to provide communities with services that address unmet health care needs.
Wing P, Forte GJ, Dionne MG, Christina JR. Projections of the supply of and demand for podiatric physicians in the United States, 2005 to 2030. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association. 2008;98(4):330-336.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18685057
An unanticipated decrease in applications to podiatric medical schools in the late 1990s has resulted in a decline in the number of podiatric physicians per capita in the United States. This study explores the implications of five possible scenarios for addressing this decline. The growing supply-demand gap revealed by this study will be an important challenge for the podiatric medical profession to overcome during the next couple of decades.
Wing P, Langelier MH, De AP. Nuclear medicine scientists: findings and recommendations based on a 2006 survey. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2007;48(4):11N-20N.
http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/48/4/11N.full.pdf
Nuclear medicine science is a critical foundation for the entire field of molecular imaging and nuclear medicine practice. Rapid evolution in the field makes the seminal contributions of nuclear medicine scientists even more important, because these individuals function as the key determinants of the direction and pace of future change. Despite the important contributions of nuclear medicine scientists, little reliable documentation is available describing who they are, what they do, their roles in employing organizations, what tasks they perform, and where they work. This survey was conducted in an effort to fill this data void and provide new information about the characteristics of nuclear medicine scientists and their contributions to the field of nuclear medicine, imaging, and medicine more generally.
Erikson C, Salsberg E, Forte G, Bruinooge S, Goldstein M. Future supply and demand for oncologists: challenges to assuring access to oncology services. Journal of Oncology Practice. 2007;3(2):79-86.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/JOP.0723601
An ASCO study of the oncologist workforce conducted in the mid-1990s found that supply and demand were in equilibrium. The current analysis shows a similar balance in 2005, but projects that this balance will not be sustained into the future. New data on physician supply gathered from surveys of practicing oncologists, oncology fellows, and fellowship program directors were analyzed, along with 2005 American Medical Association Masterfile data on practicing medical oncologists, hematologists/oncologists, and gynecologic oncologists, to determine the baseline capacity and to forecast visit capacity through 2020.
Kouznetsova M, Huang X, Ma J, Lessner L, Carpenter DO. Increased rate of hospitalization for diabetes and residential proximity of hazardous waste sites. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007;115(1):75-79.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9223
Recent epidemiologic evidence suggests associations between diabetes and several environmental exposures, specifically persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that residential proximity to POP-contaminated waste sites result in increased rates of hospitalization for diabetes.
Calman NS, Hauser D, Forte G, Continelli T. New York state physicians: characteristics and distribution in health professional shortage areas. Journal of Urban Health. December 2006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-006-9129-3
Along with high numbers of physicians, New York State also has 2.7 million people living in poverty and 3 million without health insurance who are likely to live in areas with few physicians. Nearly 4 million New Yorkers live in communities that have been designated as health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). This study was conducted to examine the physician workforce in New York State and its HPSAs.
Cooksey JA, Forte GJ, Flanagan PA, Benkendorf J, Blitzer MG. The medical genetics workforce: an analysis of clinical geneticists subgroups. Genetics in Medicine. 2006;8(10): 603-614.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17079876
Clinical geneticists with a Doctor of Medicine degree face challenges to meet the growing population demand for genetic services. This study was designed to assist the profession with workforce planning by identifying clinically relevant subgroups of geneticists and describing their professional characteristics and clinical practices. Geneticists’ patient care productivity is compared across subgroups and other medical specialists. Part of a comprehensive national study of genetic services and the health workforce, this study uses data from a 2003 survey of geneticists certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics. An iterative approach was used to identify five subgroups based on the types of new patients seen, followed by a descriptive analysis of subgroups by demographic, training, professional, and practice characteristics.
Lea DH, Williams JK, Cooksey JA, Flanagan PA, Forte G, Blitzer MG. U.S. genetics nurses in advanced practice. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 2006; 38,(3):213-218.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17044337
The purpose of this study was to describe characteristics and professional roles of genetics nurses in advanced practice. The survey that was conducted included questions on demographic characteristics, education, credentials, professional roles, and attitudes about genetic healthcare issues.
McGinnis S, Moore J, Continelli T. Practice patterns of underrepresented minority nurse practitioners in New York State, 2000. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice. 2006;7(1):35-44.
http://ppn.sagepub.com/content/7/1/35
Using data collected from a sample of 1,319 nurse practitioners (NPs) in New York in 2000, differences in practice patterns by race and ethnicity were identified. NPs from underrepresented minority (URM) groups were more likely than non-URM NPs to work in hospitals, community health centers, and schools, but less likely to work in physician offices and NP practices. URM NPs were also more likely to report a specialty certification in women’s health. Several different measures of primary care provision were examined, with URM NPs substantially more likely to meet all four measures of primary care practice than non-URM NPs. Finally, URM NPs were more likely than non-URM NPs to practice in federally designated health professional shortage areas (HPSAs).
Lea DH, Cooksey JA, Flanagan PA, Williams JK, Forte G. Innovations in United States genetics nursing: practice and research. Japan Journal of Nursing Science. Dec. 2005;2:71-83.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-7924.2005.00043.x/abstract
Clinical and research applications from human genome discoveries are growing and creating both opportunities and challenges to the integration of genetic concepts into practice and research. In the past two decades, a small groups of nurses in the U.S. have used a vareity of strategies to further develop the field of genetics nursing. In this paper, innovative approaches were used to identify genetics-related nursing roles and opportunities, as well as successful collaborative efforts beyond nursing to address the emerging health and society challenges related to human genetics discoveries.
