In my paper I will be stating and describing the problems in the healthcare workforce. I will be informing you of the history of problems with the healthcare workforce in the U.S. and how we got where we are now. I will be discussing the international context. I will compare and contrast the problems in the U.S. to compare with other countries. I will tell you our stakeholders and their roles. I will be sharing with you policy impacts along with my recommendations for the healthcare workforce. Then I will be ending with an exciting conclusion that highlights my futures recommendations if they were put into action.
The health care workforce is a huge part of health care system. Without our health care workers we would have no one to take care of us, we need the health care workforce, plain and simple. The health care workforce is our doctors, physician assistants, nurses, nurse’s aides, billing and coding experts, and the list can go on and on. We need every single health care workforce provider.
Unfortunaly we have a lot of major issues with our health care workforce. The major one is healthcare workers shortage, including primary care physicians, nurses, behavioral health and long-term care workers, as well as public health and human service professionals. This problem is anticipated to increase in the next couple years. More than half of the counties in the United States have no behavioral health workers at