Who comes when the world goes Code Blue? A novel method of exploring job advertisements for COVID-19 in health care
Date
2020
Authors
Watts, Rory D.
Bowles, Devin
Fisher, Colleen
Li, Ian W
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John Wiley & Sons Inc
Abstract
Aim
To explore the health workforce responses to COVID-19.
Design
Analysis of job advertisements.
Methods
We collected advertisements for healthcare jobs which were caused by and in response to COVID-19 between 4 March–17 April 2020 for the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. We collected information on the date of the advertisement, position advertised and location. We categorized job positions into three categories: frontline, coordination and decision support.
Results
We found 952 job advertisements, 72% of which were from the United States. There was a lag period between reported COVID-19-confirmed cases and job advertisements by several weeks. Nurses were the most advertised position in every country. Frontline workers were substantially more demanded than coordination or decision-support roles. Job advertisements are a novel data source which leverages a readily available information about how workforces respond to a pandemic. The initial phases of the response emphasise the importance of frontline workers, especially nurses.
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job advertisements, nurses, nursing,, supply and demand, workforce
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Source
Nursing Open
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Journal article
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Open Access
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Creative Commons Attribution licence