Abstract
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to syntheses policy recommendations nursing workforce development: production, distribution, and retention as COVID-19 pandemic. The quantitative data were collected from 396 samples through the questionnaire of actual and expected workforce retention operation due to COVID-19 pandemic. The qualitative data were collected from 120 subjects through in-depth interview. The findings were as follow: 1) The production of nursing workforce, the Ministry of Public Health, governer, and educational institute network should mutually plan to determin the nursing workforce production needs in longterm period, analyze recent nursing curriculum to find the competency gap due to the pandemic, develop the knowledge and skills of professional nurses according to new normal services, establish clearly procedure to support nursing students when they got infection or high risk to infection. 2) The distribution of nursing workforce, the ministry of public health should systematically review and plan to distribute nursing workforce in all level-ministry, area health, and settings for appropriate manpower rate according to the contex of areas and the complex of nursing services. The nursing administrators should consider the distribution of nursing workforce of their setting. 3) The retention of nursing workforce, the administrators should determin the nursing workforce retention procedures or protocals, encourage and motivation through appoint the worker to be a government officer; promote to a higher position; set up the clearly systems of compensation, welfare benefit and privilege; follow up the health of nursing personel in order to safe them from COVID-19 infection. Moreover, they should have a human development plan for nursing career progression.
