Building an Interprofessional Health Workforce through Pathways, Training, and Retention.

Population growth in North Carolina is contributing to health care workforce shortages, particularly in rural and underserved areas. Professions affected most include pub-lic health, nursing, behavioral health, and direct care. We describe efforts to grow this workforce by promoting health professions careers, aligning training with current trends, and improving job satisfaction and retention.

Interprofessional Education at the University Level: Evidence, Models, and Future Directions.

Interprofessional education (IPE) continues to evolve as a critical component of providing quality health care. Emerging evidence suggests IPE is most effective if it exists across the continuum of academia to clinical practice. This article provides current evidence and models for IPE deliv-ery to students beginning in their academic programs.

To stay or leave: Public health nurse workforce retention in North Carolina.

Unlabelled: States across the country have been experiencing a steady decline in public health nursing workforce, including North Carolina (NC).

Objectives: To better understand retention in the NC Public Health Nurses (PHNs) workforce through an assessment of perceptions of the working environment, stress, intent to stay, and job satisfaction.

Design: A cross-sectional online survey using closed and open-ended questions.

The Adaption of the Work Environment Survey for Public Health Nurses.

The study presents the iterative process of the adaption and psychometric properties evaluation of the Work Environment/Support/Encouragement section of the Revised Casey-Fink Nurse Retention Survey (2009) to measure the work environment of public health nurses (PHNs). This secondary data analysis was based on data collected from a convenience sample of 596 PHNs across North Carolina that were originally used to study PHNs workforce retention. Classical test theory analyses were used to evaluate scale reliability and identify potential problematic items that were further examined from a substantive perspective using content validity survey.