Conference Planning Committee:
Geri L. Dickson
– Chair (NJ), Becky Bowers-Lanier (VA), Mary Lou Brunell (FL),
Kris Campbell (OR), Jane Mahowald (OH), Patricia Moulton (ND),
Rebecca Rudel (ND), Fran A’Hern-Smith (NM), and Linda Tieman
(WA).
Target Audience:
Nursing
practitioners, educators, administrators, health services
researchers, policy makers, healthcare stakeholders, and others
interested and committed to strengthening the nursing workforce
through collaboration.
Conference Description:
This national
conference for leaders and stakeholders of state-based nursing
workforce centers focuses on measures to address long term
nursing workforce solutions at the grass roots level. Whether
you are from a newly minted workforce center or an established
center, the conference will enhance your ability to start and/or
sustain your operations. The fourth in the series of annual
conferences, this conference is geared toward data-based
evidence as the bases for policy formation and strategies to
engage politicians and funders in this important work.
Conference Objectives:
By the end of this conference participants will be able to:
1.
Network with key contacts around critical nursing workforce
challenges;
2.
Evaluate solutions to shared problems of establishing and
sustaining a nursing workforce center;
3.
Describe reliable methods to measure, monitor, and forecast
the supply and demand for nurses;
4.
Analyze different types of evidence that can serve as the
bases for reliable health policy;
5.
Examine the process of development of analytical policy
questions; and
6.
Explore funding opportunities at both the local and national
levels.
Cost: $150 for 2-day conference Questions:
njccn@andromeda.rutgers.edu
