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Providers and Workforce Resources

Expert Presentations

Addressing (no, rather Acknowledging!) Nursing Faculty Shortages
http://www.ncsl.org\print\health\shn\NCSLHepburn.pdf

Addressing the Nursing Faculty Shortage in the States
http://www.ncsl.org\print\health\shn\NCSLDeBasio.pdf

Closing the Gaps in Health Care Access, Education and Knowledge
http://www.ncsl.org\print\health\shn\AlversonNCSL.pdf

The Legislative Side of Nurse Distance Education
http://www.ncsl.org\print\health\shn\NurseDistanceEducation.pdf

Overview of State Initiatives to Bolster the Dental Workforce (2006)
http://www.ncsl.org/print/health/forum/lubin0806.pdf

The US Health Care Workforce:  Who Will Care for Us?
http://www.ncsl.org\print\health\shn\DowerNCSL.pdf

Audioconferences

Provider Incentives to Improve Accountability
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/forum/CHAP/CHAPwebinar_07.htm#II

Cultural Competency for Providers (2006)
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/oct2006webcasts.htm#providers

NCSL resources

State Laws Addressing Health Disparities
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/mhpromo.htm#Health%20Professional

Pharmacist Conscience Clauses: Laws and Legislation
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/conscienceclauses.htm

50 State Summary of Emergency Contraception Laws
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/ecleg.htm

States Tackle the Nursing Shortage 
State Legislatures Magazine: October/November 2002
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/pubs/1002nurse.htm

Digital Doctors
State Legislatures Magazine: June 2006
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/pubs/slmag/2006/06SLJun06_DigitalDoctors.htm

State Experience with Dental Loan Repayment Programs, September 2005
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/forum/dentalloan.htm

S. Gehshan, T. Straw, Access to Oral Health Services for Low Income People: Policy Barriers and Opportunities for Intervention for t he Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Washington, DC, National Conference of State Legislatures, Oct. 2002
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/forum/rwjoral.pdf

Outside NCSL resources

Building Tomorrow’s Health Care Workforce:  State Strategies For Today
http://www.csg.org/pubs/Documents/hpm03wi-BuildingTommorrows.pdf

State Actions and the Health Workforce Crisis
http://www.aahcdc.org/policy/reports/AAHC_Workforce_State_Actions.pdf

Changes in Healthcare Professions’ Scope of Practice:  Legislative Considerations
https://www.ncsbn.org/ScopeofPractice.pdf

The Nursing Shortage Solutions for the Short and Long term
http://www.nursingworld.org/mods/archive/mod270/ceshfull.htm

Diversity in practice: Doctors who look more like their patients with changing patient demographics, hiring minority and women physicians has become a wise business choice for many groups.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/free/bisa1205.htm

Faculty Shortages in Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs: Scope of the Problem and Strategies for Expanding the Supply
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/pdf/05FacShortage.pdf

Faculty Shortage Fact Sheet
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/FactSheets/FacultyShortage.htm

Issue Bulletin on State Legislative Initiatives to Address the Nursing Shortage
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/issues/Oct06.htm

American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/

Federation of State Medical Boards
http://www.fsmb.org/

American Nurses Association
http://www.nursingworld.org/

National Council of State Boards of Nursing
https://www.ncsbn.org/

American Association of Colleges of Nursing
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/

American Dental Association
http://www.ada.org/

American Dental Hygienist Association
http://www.adha.org/

The Center for the Health Professions
http://www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/

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