Goal and Impact
There are major gaps in data on the health care workforce and the nursing workforce especially. More collaboration is needed among nursing organizations and others to be able to identify and answer the country’s health needs.
Visit this collection of materials specific to the ongoing effort to find solutions.
When the public and private sectors work together to synthesize the many sources of health workforce data, the country can set goals and priorities in education, training, and practice, and planning and policy will better match the nation’s needs. Better data can also ensure that practice, planning and policy match the nation’s needs as we work together to achieve health equity.
Progress
Almost half of the Campaign’s Action Coalitions have made workforce data their main focus. Consistent with that, the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers reports that more than 70 percent of State Nursing Workforce Centers are partners with Action Coalitions in their states—a step toward creating a comprehensive collection of workforce data that integrates the diverse sources of statistics.
This graph is a part of the Campaign for Action Dashboard, a series of charts and graphs that show goals by which the Campaign evaluates its efforts to implement recommendations in the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing, Leading Change, Advancing Health.
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Number of state boards of nursing that participate in the NCSBN Nursys data system
Number of state boards of nursing that participate in the NCSBN Nursys data system
View Full Resource*Scroll to right if graphic is too large to view in full on your viewport.National Council of State Boards of Nursing
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Meeting Sets the Stage for Improved Collection of Workforce Data
“In God we trust. All others bring data.” That’s how one speaker, quoting the late more
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data, Locations: National,
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Campaign for Action’s Participating Schools of Nursing
Aug 08, 2022
Issues: Collecting Workforce Data, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Tools & Tips: Mentoring,
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Equity Toolkit Helps Communities Take On Social Determinants of Health
May 05, 2022
The Health Equity Toolkit (updated May 2022) provides in one place the tools, resources, and information that nurses, as well as Action Coalitions and their partners, need to help their communities by tackling the social determinants of health—those conditions in which people more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Collecting Workforce Data, Improving Health Equity, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Tools & Tips: Campaign Summit 2021: Health Equity Through Nursing, Meetings, Mentoring,