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Health Care Workforce

Chief among the resources of our health care system is the workforce that assumes the task. The IOM recognizes the importance of the health care workforce and examines such issues as the preparedness of certain sectors to meet patient demand and the protection of health care workers against threats like pandemics, among others.

Reports Related to Health Care Workforce

Provision of Mental Health Counseling Services under TRICARE Released: February 12, 2010
Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions Released: December 4, 2009
Assessing and Improving Value in Cancer Care. Workshop Summary Released: November 4, 2009

Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster... Released: September 24, 2009
The National Emergency Care Enterprise: Advancing Care through... Released: September 9, 2009
Respiratory Protection for Healthcare Workers in the Workplace Against... Released: September 3, 2009

The U.S. Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade. Workshop Summary Released: August 6, 2009
Ensuring Quality Cancer Care through the Oncology Workforce: Sustaining... Released: April 24, 2009
Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety Released: December 15, 2008

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Provision of Mental Health Counseling Services under TRICARE

Released: February 12, 2010
In this report, the IOM makes recommendations for permitting independent practice for mental health counselors treating patients within TRICARE—the DOD’s health care benefits program. This would change current policy, which requires all counselors to practice under a physician’s supervision without regard to their education, training, licensure or experience.

Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Released: December 4, 2009
Today’s professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety. Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions examines continuing education for all health professionals, explores development of a national continuing education institute, and offers guidance on the establishment and operation of an institute to develop a coordinated continuing professional development system.