Nurse Workforce Initiative
7/27/2009
NWI Evaluation and Report
In response to the nursing shortage in California, the Nurse Workforce Initiative was started in January 2002. The purpose of the Nurse Workforce Initiative (NWI) is to develop and implement proposals to recruit, train, and retain nurses. The initial proposal allocated $60 million over three years for the NWI.
The Nurse Workforce Initiative includes components designed to address the nurse shortage, including regional training collaboratives, career ladder projects, and other strategies to increase the number of nurses. The NWI also funded an evaluation of the initiative, to determine which strategies to increase the supply of nurses are most effective and to improve our understanding of the labor market dynamics for nurses. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Los Angeles, comprise the evaluation team.
The first evaluation report, " Early Process Report: Implementation of Project Initiatives," provides preliminary information on the implementation of the regional collaboratives, workplace reform, and on-site career ladder projects. A second report, " California's Nursing Labor Force: Demand, Supply, and Shortages," provides preliminary information on the labor market of nurses in California, including institutions and regulations that affect the labor market, the demand for nurses, the characteristics of the current supply of nurses, and the flows on nurses into and out of the workforce.
7/27/2009
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In response to the nursing shortage in California, the Nurse Workforce Initiative was started in January 2002. The purpose of the Nurse Workforce Initiative (NWI) is to develop and implement proposals to recruit, train, and retain nurses. The initial proposal allocated $60 million over three years for the NWI.
The Nurse Workforce Initiative includes components designed to address the nurse shortage, including regional training collaboratives, career ladder projects, and other strategies to increase the number of nurses. The NWI also funded an evaluation of the initiative, to determine which strategies to increase the supply of nurses are most effective and to improve our understanding of the labor market dynamics for nurses. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Los Angeles, comprise the evaluation team.
The first evaluation report, " Early Process Report: Implementation of Project Initiatives," provides preliminary information on the implementation of the regional collaboratives, workplace reform, and on-site career ladder projects. A second report, " California's Nursing Labor Force: Demand, Supply, and Shortages," provides preliminary information on the labor market of nurses in California, including institutions and regulations that affect the labor market, the demand for nurses, the characteristics of the current supply of nurses, and the flows on nurses into and out of the workforce.
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