Who comes when the world goes Code Blue? A novel method of exploring job advertisements for COVID‐19 in health care

• DOI: 10.1002/nop2.721
• Publication Date: 2020-11-30T19:59:49Z
• Authors: Rory D. Watts; Devin C. Bowles; Colleen Fisher; Ian W. Li
• Keywords: Position (finance); Pandemic

To explore the health workforce responses to COVID-19.Analysis of job advertisements.We collected advertisements for healthcare jobs which were caused by and in response COVID-19 between 4 March-17 April 2020 United States, Canada, Kingdom, Australia New Zealand. We information on date advertisement, position advertised location. categorized positions into three categories: frontline, coordination decision support.We found 952 advertisements, 72% from States. There was a lag period reported COVID-19-confirmed cases several weeks. Nurses most every country. Frontline workers substantially more demanded than or decision-support roles. Job are novel data source leverages readily available about how workforces respond pandemic. The initial phases emphasise importance frontline workers, especially nurses.