Category: Workforce

AHA: “Expanding the Reach” Workforce Strategies Guide

The AHA has released the fourth section of its workforce strategies guide, which is designed to help hospital and health system leaders navigate workforce challenges and opportunities. It focuses on hiring veterans, professional governance models, and academic-practice partnerships.

The guide was informed by the AHA Board of Trustees’ Task Force on Workforce and includes strategies, resources, and case studies from hospitals and health systems across the country.

Section 1 offered strategies and resources to support workforce wellbeing and behavioral health and prevent workplace violence. Section 2 focused on data and analytics, as well as technological supports. Section 3 focused on recruitment and retention, diversity and inclusion, and creative staffing models.

View AHA’s workforce webpage to download the all four sections of the guide, as well as additional resources.

ANA & AONL: Models of Care Insight Study

In March 2023, the American Nurses Association and American Organization for Nursing Leadership — in partnership with Healthcare Solutions Group and Joslin Insight — released a study to “probe and validate the current demand for change, the support of various roles and programs, and the gap between leadership and the frontline.”

The Models of Care Insight Study Survey takes into account feedback from 50 in-depth interviews with top national healthcare leaders. The survey itself garnered 3,385 responses from professionals across the country. Specific audiences included “direct care nurses, nursing leadership, and other healthcare executives in acute care and ambulatory settings.”

MHA Publishes Compendium of Care Innovations & Strategies

These approaches work in tandem with broader workforce development efforts, and allow healthcare professionals to provide safe, high-quality, and empowered care.

Workforce vacancies across the healthcare continuum are straining bed availability and creating capacity bottlenecks, leading providers to implement new and innovative strategies that can help maximize the talents of their caregivers. These approaches work in tandem with broader workforce development efforts, and allow healthcare professionals to provide safe, high-quality, and empowered care.


As the volume of these strategies continues to grow, MHA’s Continuum of Care Council created this
compendium to document both short- and long-term strategies and care models that may aid in patient care during this crisis and beyond.


While the compendium is not exhaustive, it pulls from the latest trends to showcase strategies that fit a range of settings and resource capabilities. Each strategy and care model has a brief description, linked resources to learn more, and surface barriers to implementation. MHA will also use this listing to guide our advocacy efforts to increase access to care and to empower the workers who make care possible

AONL: Nursing Leadership Workforce Compendium

In alignment with AONL’s strategic initiatives, the AONL Workforce Committee and subcommittees identified best practices and innovations to help strategize and manage the complexities of the nursing workforce. The goal of the AONL Workforce Compendium is to bring these best practices and innovations together to be shared widely, to support and empower nurse leaders in attaining, retaining, and sustaining environments where nurses want to work and feel like they belong.

Access the Workforce Comendium here.

AHA Issue Brief: Building a Safe Workplace and Community — Violence Mitigation in a Culture of Safety

The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) initiative hosted the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM) for a facilitated dialogue to explore challenges and current strategies to mitigate the risk of violence. The discussion fostered an exchange of ideas and solutions that informed this issue brief and accompanying case studies.

From AHA:

In 2021, HAV developed the Building a Safe Workplace and Community framework to guide health care leaders in their efforts to prevent and mitigate violence.

This issue brief, the third of four in the series, examines how hospitals’ violence mitigation efforts can fit effectively into an organization’s culture of safety strategy. The brief includes thought-provoking questions to facilitate discussion of how violence mitigation can be integrated seamlessly into the larger framework of patient and worker safety initiatives, supporting an overall culture of safety. It also explores strategies that leaders could take to best support a culture that mitigates violence as part of larger enterprise efforts.

View the issue brief here.

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AHA Issue Brief: Building a Safe Workplace and Community — Providing Trauma Support to Your Workforce Following an Incident or Threat of Violence

The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) initiative hosted the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM) for a facilitated dialogue to explore challenges and current strategies to mitigate the risk of violence. The discussion fostered an exchange of ideas and solutions that informed this issue brief and accompanying case studies.

From AHA:

In 2021, HAV developed the Building a Safe Workplace and Community framework to guide health care leaders in their efforts to prevent and mitigate violence.

This issue brief examines trauma support for hospital and health system team members. It was developed from discussions the HAV Advisory Group had with the Medical University of South Carolina’s National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center (NMVVRC) team about the challenges and opportunities to provide trauma support to health care workers following an incident or threat of violence.

View the issue brief here.

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AHA Building a Safe Workplace and Community: A Framework for Hospital and Health System Leadership

The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) initiative hosted the American SAHA’s Hospitals Against Violence framework helps guide hospital and health system leadership address the issues of violence in their workplaces, with an emphasis on educating and protecting the workforce. In this effort, we must acknowledge that community violence encroaches into the health care setting, and our workforce is part of the community.

Leadership should push for greater data collection, collective accountability, and ongoing education and training. With this approach, we can achieve the four pillars necessary for implementing a comprehensive violence mitigation strategy: trauma support, violence intervention, culture of safety and mitigating risk.

To learn more about the AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence
initiative, visit www.aha.org/HAV.

Download a PDF of the framework here.

AHA Issue Brief: Building a Safe Workplace and Community — Mitigating Risk of Violence

The American Hospital Association’s Hospitals Against Violence (HAV) initiative hosted the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM) for a facilitated dialogue to explore challenges and current strategies to mitigate the risk of violence. The discussion fostered an exchange of ideas and solutions that informed this issue brief and accompanying case studies.

From AHA:

In 2021, HAV developed the Building a Safe Workplace and Community framework to guide health care leaders in their efforts to prevent and mitigate violence.

This issue brief examines risk mitigation and marks the first in a series that expand on each domain of the framework: culture of safety, violence intervention, trauma support and risk mitigation. This issue brief is an outgrowth of a series of discussions between hospital and risk management leaders. The brief shares considerations when assessing potential risks, strategies to mitigating violence and insights on making the care environment safer.

View the issue brief here.

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HRET Culture of Safety Change Package

This change package is a summary of themes from the successful practices of high performing health organizations across the country. It was developed through clinical practice sharing, organization site visits and subject matter expert contributions. This change package includes a menu of strategies, change concepts and specific actionable items that any hospital can choose to implement based on need or for purposes of improving patient quality of life and care. This change package is intended to be complementary to literature reviews and other evidence-based tools and resources.

What is the Cycle of Violence?

 

According to the AHA/ACHI Hospital Approaches to Interrupt the Cycle of Violence guide, exposure to violence significantly increases the likelihood of an individual being a perpetrator of violence or experiencing repeated violent injury in the future, creating an ongoing cycle of violence.

Prevention poses a challenge because violence occurs as part of a cycle of learned behaviors that are further perpetuated by an individual’s exposure to trauma. Though it may appear to be an intractable problem, violence can be prevented by addressing the underlying socioeconomic, environmental and behavioral risk factors that increase the likelihood that an individual will become a victim or perpetrator of violence.

Hospitals can play an important role at each level of prevention. By partnering with community stakeholders, hospitals can implement primary prevention approaches to address risk factors at the relationship, community and society levels and help prevent violence from occurring.

Read the entire report here...