Vision
Our Mission
Our Values
Seven Areas of Impact
- PreK3-12 Pipeline and Pre-nursing Pathways
- Nursing Education at the LPN, RN and APRN Levels
- Health and Well-being of the Nursing Workforce
- Upskilling the Workforce through Academic and/or Mentoring Programs
- Innovative Care Delivery Models
- Workforce Data
- Local, State and Federal Policy
Who We Are
We are a group of nurse workforce entities that focuses on addressing the nursing shortage within their states and contributes to the national effort to assure an adequate supply of qualified nurses to meet the health needs of the US population. We support the advancement of new as well as existing nurse workforce initiatives and share best practices in nursing workforce research, workforce planning, workforce development, and formulation of workforce policy. We share information in three major ways: through publications, via annual conferences, and by way of this virtual network.
What exactly is a state nurse workforce entity? These state initiatives are made up of people who work to increase the supply of nurses and resolve the critical nursing shortage. Activities include data collection and analysis, publication of reports and information, as well as recommendations of changes necessary to resolve the nursing shortage. While organizational structures, funding sources, and entity names vary, these state nurse workforce entities are commonly referred to as “Centers.” The concept of “Taking the Long View” reflects the focus of workforce efforts being transformed from ‘quick fixes’ to long-range strategic planning. This involves the collection of data that allows the identification of imbalances between supply and demand and allows for forecasting efforts that drive nursing workforce development and policy recommendations. The majority of states have a nurse workforce initiative.
2020 – 2024 National Forum Impact Report
2025 Impact of Nursing Workforce Centers
Visit our Location Map to find states participating in the National Forum.
The National Forum’s Board of Directors represent leaders from 7 states.
Online Journal of Nursing Workforce (OJNW), the official journal of the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers (NFSNWC), is a scholarly, biennial, and peer-reviewed journal. The journal publishes original research articles that advance the area of nursing workforce along with innovation research/policy reports and program/project studies that inform nursing workforce policies, programming, and planning on the local, state, federal, and international levels
Topics
- K-12 Pipeline and pre-nursing pathways
- Nursing education at the LPN, RN and APRN levels
- Health and well-being of the nursing workforce
- Upskilling the nursing workforce
- Innovative care delivery models
- Workforce data and research
- Local, state and federal Policy
Click here for more information about the Journal.
Our State Representative Subscribers have been hard at work publishing cutting-edge research and programmatic publications in the last two years
Cadmus, E. & Robert, M.L. (2024). It Take a Village: Successful Transition into Practice for New Graduate Registered Nurses. Nurse Leader, 22 (5). 643-647. Article Link
Cadmus, E., Dempsey, C., Boston-Leary, K. & Bates, M. (2024). Nursing Leadership Scope and Standards and Pathway to Excellence. Nursing Management 55 (6) 7-12. Article Link
Chan, G., Benner, P., Burns, E., Orozco, R., Bowman, M., Escobedo-Wu, E. & Vallejo, E. (2025). Establishing the “North Star” for Clinical Education to Accelerate Practice Readiness: Implications for Leaders, Faculty, Educators, Nursing Professional Development Practitioners and Preceptors. Nursing Administration Quarterly 49 (4). 206-225. Article Link
Jones, K., Dirks, M. Humphrey, C. & Carter, E. (2025). Academic Leadership: Crisis, Challenges and Opportunities. 1(2). Article Link.
Moore, T., Hepburn, K., Poppert Cordts, K., Ramirez, JP., Brown, K., Wattenbach, K., Hanish, A. (2025). Adverse Childhood Experiences, Stress, and Burnout in Nursing Students.Journal of Nursing Education 64 (8) 489-494. Article Link
Moulton Burwell, P. (2025). Nursing Workforce Projections for All: State-Based Staff Registered Nurse Projections. Online Journal of Nursing Workforce 1 (1). Article Link
Poppert Cordts, K., Paulo Ramirez, J., Gliko, D., Creason-Wahl, V., Wattenbach, K., Moore, T., Keeler, H. & Hanish, A. (2025). Heal the Healer: Empowering Healthcare Providers to Enact Systems-level Wellness Changes. A Mixed Methods Survey Study. Article Link
Pryor, S., Carden, A., Letourneau, R. & Menon, U. (2025). Evaluation of a Well-Being Coaching Pilot Program for Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students. Online Journal of Nursing Workforce 1 (2). Article Link
Reichhardt, L., Kuwabara, B. & Loos, J. (2024). Leveraging the Hawai’i Nurse Residency Collaborative to Optimize Statewide Workforce Goals. Journal of Nursing Administration 54 (1). 54-60. Article Link
Senczakowicz, E., Honey, M., Barnhart, S., Stoudt, R., Bohn, J., Gimbel, J. Phim, T., Records, A. & Williams, M. (2025). From Grant Proposal to Pilot Phase: The Development Journey of the Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy. Online Journal of Nursing Workforce 1(1). Article Link
Shobo, Y., Hills, R., Douglas, J., Carter, E. (2023). The Impact of COVID-19 on Nurse Aide Education Programs. Journal of Nursing Regulation 14 (2). 49-56. Article Link
Shobo, Y., Hodgdon, B. & Pittman, P. (2025). Education, Legal and Work Autonomy of Nurse Practitioners: A Tri(Quad)-State Comparison. Online Journal of Nursing Workforce 1 (1). Article Link
Smiley, R., Kaminiski-Ozturk, N., Reid, M., Burwell, P., Oliveira, C., Shobo, Y., Allygeyer, R., Zhong, E., O’Hara, C., Volk, A. & Martin, B. The 2024 National Nursing Workforce Survey. Journal of Nursing Regulation 16 (1) S1-S88. Article Link
Van Dyk, E. & Waszak, D. (2025). A Token of Gratitude: Review of a Nurse Practitioner Preceptor Honorarium Program Online Journal of Nursing Workforce 1 (1). Article Link
Waszak, D., Cadmus, E. & Roberts, M.L. (2025). Evaluation of a Statewide Registered Nurse Residency Collaborative: An Apprenticeship Model in Acute Care. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing 56(8) 337-343. Article Link
Zahner, S., Gillespie, K., Merss, K. & Bizot, P. (2025). Characteristics of Governmental Public Health Nurses with Recommendations for Public Health Nurse Workforce Planning. Public Health Nursing, 42 (5). 1634-1643. Article Link
Arkansas
2024 State of the Nursing Workforce in Arkansas Report
Colorado
Colorado Registered Nurse Workforce: Demand and Supply Analysis November 2024
Connecticut
Nursing Education in Connecticut in 2023
Florida
State of Nursing Education in Florida
Georgia
Georgia Nursing Education Program Offerings Report 2024
Hawaii
Hawai’i Nurse Workforce Projections 2022-2037
Hawai’i State Nurse Education Capacity Report
Healthcare Provider Barriers to Practice Law Review: Hawaii State Center for Nursing
Hawaii Clinical Placement Collaborative
Hawaii Nurse Transition to Practice
Evaluation of Hawaii Preceptor Tax Credit Program
Idaho
Illinois
Illinois Licensed Practical Nurse Workforce Survey Report 2025
Kansas
State of the Nursing Workforce in Kansas Report
Louisiana
Maryland
Hospital RN Turnover Rates- Maryland
Maryland NCLEX Pass Rates by Region 2020-2025
Massachusetts
Transforming Nursing Clinical Placements: Standardization and Innovation for Massachusetts
Exploring the Role: Understanding the Scope of LPN Practice in Massachusetts
The Apprenticeship Advantage Recommendation
Michigan
Understanding Healthcare Retention in Southeast Michigan
2025 Michigan Healthcare Workforce Plan
Minnesota
Minnesota Nursing Workforce Summit Report 2024
Mississippi
Mississippi 2024 Hospital Nursing Workforce Data
Missouri
2023 Missouri Nursing Workforce Report
Nebraska
Nebraska 2023 LPN and 2024 RN Survey Data: Biennial Report
New Jersey
New Jersey Access to Care Report 2025
2025 New Jersey Nursing Data and Analysis Report
New Jersey CNA Data and Analysis Report
Oregon
Oregon Healthcare Workforce Index: Understanding Nursing in the Broader Healthcare Labor Market
From Burnout to Belonging: Nurse-Designed Approaches to Workforce Well-Being in Oregon
South Carolina
The South Carolina Registered Nurse Workforce
The South Carolina Nurse Practitioner Workforce
The South Carolina Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Workforce
South Dakota
South Dakota 2025 Nursing Workforce Report
Tennessee
Texas
2025 Texas Early Career Nurses Survey Report
Texas Workplace Violence Against Nurses Prevention Grant Program 2025 Update
Vermont
Vermont Health Care Workforce Census at a Glance
Vermont Health Care Workforce Census Licensed Practical Nurses 2024
Virgina
Virginia Registered Nurse Workforce 2024
Virginia Licensed Practical Nurse Workforce 2024
Virginia Licensed Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Workforce 2024
Washington
Washington State Nursing Education Trend Report 2019-2023
Washington State LPN, RN and APRN Demand and Projections Report
Washington State Nursing Supply Report
Wisconsin
The National Nursing Workforce Center Act would establish a grant program to support public-private partnerships of entities seeking to stabilize, support, analyze, develop, and invest in growing the nursing workforce. Through this program, existing nursing workforce centers will be able to expand their data collection and solution-based problem solving for their individual states. States without nursing workforce centers will be able to establish one to respond to both nursing workforce and community needs.
Since 2009, the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers has offered a recommended minimum set of data to survey about the nursing workforce to standardize information collected by each state.
Click for more information and to download the minimum data sets.
Our Career Center provides the opportunities for nursing workforce entities to post jobs.
Every two years, the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers partners with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) to conduct the only national-level survey specifically focused on the U.S. nursing workforce. Click for more information.
The National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers is a proud member of the Interorganizational Collaborative on Nursing Statistics (ICONS). The organization is in the process of re-starting. More information will be shared as it is available.
The National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers is a proud member of the Nursing Community Coalition. Click for more information.
For questions or more information about the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers
Patricia Moulton Burwell, PhD
Director,
National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers
info@nursingworkforcecenters.org