Kyla Woodward, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor, UW School of Nursing

Biography:
Kyla Woodward, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor in the UW School of Nursing, Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing. Her research focuses on nursing workforce outcomes including turnover or retention and the wellbeing of nurses and other clinicians. Dr. Woodward’s work includes projects examining various dimensions of the nursing workforce, evaluating job mobility trends among emergency services clinicians and the health workforce more broadly, and understanding health workforce job mobility in the context of macroeconomic trends . Her work emphasizes the dynamic and changing contexts that shape nurses’ job-related outcomes over time as well as considering systems issues that impact healthcare worker outcomes. Throughout her work, Dr. Woodward seeks to understand when and how outcomes differ for workers with different identities and backgrounds and the underlying structures and policies leading to those differences. Her current projects with CHWS focus on understanding nursing time spent in non-nursing tasks and how it impacts nurses and assessing the impact of household factors on healthcare worker job mobility.