Workforce
Jason Kane, MD, MS, FCCM (he/him/his)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Chicago Medical Center Comer Children's Hospital
Glenview, Illinois
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light challenges in the critical care workforce. Healthcare systems were overwhelmed in bed capacity and, more critically, availability of well-trained clinical staff, requiring non-critical-care-trained clinicians to provide critical care. The pandemic also led to severe attrition of trained clinical staff across many disciplines, including nurses, physicians, and respiratory therapists, exacerbating pre-pandemic staffing shortages. Creative staffing models were developed and just-in-time training models were established to provide minimal levels of competency. Graduate education suffered as a result of epidemiologic shifts in patient volume, conditions, and patterns of illness. This session will focus on challenges and opportunities facing the critical care community with respect to the clinical workforce in the post-COVID-19 era.
Concurrent Session Faculty: Julia A. Heneghan, MD, MS – University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital
Concurrent Session Faculty: Elizabeth J. Bridges, CCNS, MSN, PhD, RN (she/her/hers) – University of Washington Medical Center
Concurrent Session Faculty: Ivan Garcia, BSc-RRT – Columbia University Irving Medical Center