Nurses

How Does SB 1375’s Proposed Transition-to-Practice Period Compare to Other States?

This fact sheet compares a proposed-transition to-practice (TTP) period for nurse practitioners in California to TTP periods in other states.

Frontline Nurses Are Burning Out. This Digital Health Start-Up Is Trying to Change That

Laudio aims to help managers reduce high turnover rates among nurses and other frontline health care workers — a longstanding problem exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Provider Shortage Persists While Regulators Consider Implementation of Nurse Practitioner Law

Heather Stringer

Workforce, Medi-Cal, Health Equity

The legislation could increase access to care for many Californians — but not until detailed standards have been adopted through regulations or changes in state law.

Progress Since the California Future Health Workforce Commission

Progress Since the California Future Health Workforce Commission: State Policy and Budget Actions on Priority Recommendations provides an overview of how California has acted on Commission recommendations to grow and diversity its health workforce.

Training Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners

Behavioral Health, Workforce

With California facing a growing shortage of mental health professionals, a new online certificate program will prepare 300 psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners by 2026. The schools of nursing at UCSF, UC Davis, UCLA, and UC Irvine are coordinating the program which launched in 2021.

Transition to Practice for California’s Nurse Practitioners: Lessons from Other States

Susanne J. Phillips

This brief seeks to support the regulatory process in California by shedding light on how transition to practice (TTP) has played out around the country for nurse practitioners (NPs), sharing the existing evidence on how full practice authority and TTP periods for NPs affect patients’ access to care and outcomes.

Sobering Centers Offer Clients Pathway to Stable Lives

September 20, 2021

Bonar Menninger

Homelessness & Health Care, Medi-Cal

A conversation with Shannon Smith-Bernardin, PhD, RN, a national leader in the field.

Aligning Nurse Practitioner Statutes in California

Garrett K. Chan, Karen G. Duderstadt, Catherine Dower

AB 890, passed in 2020, authorizes California nurse practitioners (NPs) to practice at the top of their competence without physician supervision and with a defined scope of practice. This report outlines the California codes that may need to be updated and harmonized with AB 890 to full realize this additional capacity of NPs.

2021 Edition — California’s Nurses

Timothy Bates, Amber R. Rose

Nursing is the single largest health profession in the state. These quick reference guides look at supply, demographics, education, distribution, and pay for registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses.

COVID-19 Tracking Poll, February 2021: Views from California Health Care Providers on the Front Lines

Goodwin Simon Strategic Research

Behavioral Health

This poll provides detailed insights on health care providers' views of a COVID-19 vaccine, including their rates of vaccination to date. Also included are providers' responses about mental health and morale, and the availability of personal protective equipment.

Funding for Training of California’s Non-Physician Workforce

Health Management Associates

What financial support is available to California residents engaged in training to become physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs)? Through a literature review and key informant interviews, researchers sought to understand what data are collected and where there are gaps and to make recommendations about future funding for PA and NP training.

COVID-19 Tracking Poll: Most Frontline Staff at California Nursing Homes See Infections at Work

Kristof Stremikis

Rates are higher in facilities located in Los Angeles County and in those where most residents are Black or Latino.

CHCF’s Response to the COVID-19 Behavioral Health Crisis in California

Catherine Teare, Katherine Haynes

Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal, Telehealth

CHCF remains dedicated to partnering with mental health and substance use disorder providers and leaders to advance behavioral health care in the face of the pandemic.

Podcast Project Captures Voices of Black Health Care Workers

Steven Birenbaum

More than 200 health care workers have signed up to participate.

Efforts to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality Complicated by COVID-19

Xenia Shih Bion

Maternal Health, Health Equity

Stories That Caught Our Attention: How can we support Black mothers and birthing people during a pandemic that is amplifying health disparities?