Recruiting healthcare workers from the international labor market

Recruiting Healthcare Workers on the International Labor Market: A Megastudy

This study is trying out different ways to attract nurses and nursing assistants from the EU to help fill the urgent need for healthcare workers in Denmark.

Quick facts

• Phase: NA
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110000 (estimated)
• Ages: 18 Years and up
• Sex: All
• Sponsor: University of Aarhus (other)
• Locations: 1 site (Aarhus)
• Trial ID: NCT06793592 on ClinicalTrials.gov

What this trial studies

This megastudy aims to address the urgent demand for nursing staff in Denmark by implementing a large-scale recruitment campaign targeting nurses and nursing assistants from the European Union. Collaborating with Danish public healthcare providers and led by Copenhagen Capacity, the study will utilize social media job platforms to reach potential recruits with personalized messages. The research will explore the effectiveness of different recruitment messages and strategies to attract talent to public healthcare organizations. The study will involve a sample size of 110,000 participants to ensure robust findings.

Who should consider this trial

Good fit: Ideal candidates for this study are nurses and nursing assistants from the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland with less than 10 years of work experience.

Not a fit: Patients who are not healthcare workers or those with more than 10 years of experience in nursing will not benefit from this study.

Why it matters

Potential benefit: If successful, this study could significantly enhance the recruitment of qualified nursing staff to address healthcare shortages in Denmark.

How similar studies have performed: While there is limited research specifically on this recruitment approach, similar studies in healthcare recruitment have shown promising results in attracting talent through targeted messaging.

Eligibility criteria

We define inclusion/exclusion criteria as follows:

* Their current/primary country/location listed on the public profile corresponds to any of the 26 European Union countries (all European Union member states except Denmark), as well as Norway and Switzerland.
* They have fewer than 10 years of work experience if their profile includes job entries with corresponding start and end dates. Profiles without job dates (preventing calculation of total experience) or with no listed work experience will also be included in the sample.
* Their public profile includes any of the following terms in their job titles, either as full terms or partial matches, in English or any local language: "Nurse", "Nursing Assistant", "Registered Nurse", "Intensive Care Nurse", "Emergency Room Nurse", "Surgical Nurse", "Travel Nurse", "Nurse Practitioner", or "Nursing Student" Additionally, their education section lists any of these terms, either as full terms or partial matches: "Nurse", "Nursing", "Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse" or "Nursing Science". We exclude job titles that indicate roles outside the scope of our interest. Examples include: "Midwife", "Dental nurse", "Veterinary nurse", "Occupational health/company nurse", "Cosmetology nurse", "Military/Fire nurse", "Retired nurse", "Nurse consultant/advisor", and "Nurse teacher/professor". In addition, we drop any positions or education records where the job/degree title appears 5 or fewer times in the sample.
* Individuals with five or more connections on their LinkedIn profile.
* Individuals with an active profile (i.e. a profile that has been updated) in 2024.

Where this trial is running

Aarhus

• Aarhus University — Aarhus, Denmark (RECRUITING)

Study contacts

• Study coordinator: Florian Keppeler, Assistant Professor, Dr.

Conditions: Healthy, recruitment, labor migration, healthcare, megastudy