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Nursing Workforce Supply- Demand Data

Linda B. Roberts, MSN, RN

Manager, IDFPR/Illinois Center for Nursing

Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation/Illinois Center for Nursing

ICN was established by legislation in 2006 as part of SB 0931

ICN is part of an overall strategy to produce more highly skilled nursing professionals, ease the nursing shortage, improve access to quality health care for IL families

Institute Of Medicine Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action

2010 October, Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health

Goal is to assure that all Americans have access to high quality, patient-centered care in a system where nurses contribute as essential partners to achieving success

Institute Of Medicine Future of Nursing Eight Recommendations

1. Remove scope of practice barriers

2. Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts

3. Implement Nurse Residency programs

4. Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020

Institute Of Medicine Future of Nursing Eight Recommendations

5. Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020

6. Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning

7. Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health

8. Build an infastructure for the collection and analysis of inter-professional health care workforce data

IOM #8 – Build an Infrastructure for the Collection & Analysis of Health Care Workforce Data

2007 IL Nursing Workforce Supply Survey was conducted

Purpose • To develop a strategic plan for nursing manpower in IL

• Maintain a database of nursing supply/demand

• Create nursing retention and recruitment initiatives

Random sample of RNs, LPNs, and all APNs

1. The Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers (http://www.nursingworkforcecenters.org/)

• 2009 Construction of Nurse Minimum Dataset • Supply

• Demand

• Education

• Goal: construction of core items for each topic – the minimum dataset

• AARP’s Center to Champion Nursing in America provided a portion of the funding for this project



1. CCNA mission – expand nursing education capacity

• A national repository of nurse workforce data based on state level contributions would be advantageous for state and national nurse workforce planners

• Critical nursing shortage and is expected to grow by 2020

• Workgroups met by conference call over 4-6 month period


1. Demand/Employer survey instruments collected from state workforce centers

2. Instruments compiled

3. Survey developed• Identified items collected• Rate items collected

• Demand forecasting• Policy issues


1. Review of literature• Unruh, Russo, Jiang and Stocks, 2009• Reinier, Palumbo, McIntosh, Rambur, Kolodinsky,

Hurowitz and Ashikaga, 2005

2. Survey variable list vetted with nursing and healthcare community including

• National Council State Boards of Nursing• American Nurses Association• American Hospital Association


Datasets to include• Facility surveyed

• Long term care/nursing facility• Public health• Medicare/Medicaid certified home health care

agencies

• Definitions of facilities, caregivers, FT, PT • Caregivers

• APNs, RNs, LPN/LVNs, CNAs


• Labor Market Supply-Demand for IL Patient-Care Registered Nurses• Sharing of data agreement amongst

government agencies• CCNA “Team IL” leadership meetings with

IDES/IL Department of Employment Security as the lead

• Compare IDES projections to national growth rates and industry studies


Demand• Determine current year occupational

employment and projected growth rate

• Account for possible adjustments to separation/replacement rates based upon occupational or industry specific studies of vacancy rates or turnover rates


Supply• Account for all sources of education and

training• Data base of program completers

• Annual supply projection

• Account for leakage• From the state

• From the industry

• From the labor workforce


• Summary for Illinois • Annual RN acute care estimated supply-demand

balance• Regions vary• Nursing workforce survey was last completed in 2007• Non-state organizations conduct separate demand

surveys• Nursing labor market supply-demand analysis is now

beginning to be used as a template for other health occupations

Nursing Workforce Supply and Demand Data

Thank youLinda B. Roberts, MSN,RN

IDFPR/IL Center for Nursing

www.nursing.illinois.gov

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