Skilled nursing facility staffing shortages: Sources, strategies, and impacts on staff who stayed.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine skilled nursing facility (SNF) staffing shortages across job roles during the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to capture the perspectives of leaders on the breadth of staffing shortages and their implications on staff that stayed throughout the pandemic in order to provide recommendations for policies and practices used to strengthen the SNF workforce moving forward.

Study setting and design

For this qualitative study, we engaged a purposive national sample of SNF leaders (n = 94) in one-on-one interviews between January 2021 and December 2022.

Data source and analytic sample

Using purposive sampling (i.e., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid quality rating, region, ownership) to capture variation in SNF organizations, we conducted in-depth, semi-structur

SUBMITTER: Leland NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11622260 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature