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Workshop Introduction

Our hands-on pre-conference workshop will feature 4 national data experts. These 2-hour sessions will provide a hands-on opportunity to improve skills to evaluate nursing workforce needs. 

Workshop sessions include:

• Using Labor Market Data to Understand your Workforce

• Strategies for Writing Workforce Reports

• Using Data from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses

• Creating Data Dashboards

Registration is an add-on to the conference registration.

Detailed Session Information

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Using Labor Market Data to Understand Your Workforce 1:00 – 3:00 PM 

Session Description

This hands-on session will provide the steps to develop a draft labor market report for your state. This includes:

• Finding your state and national labor market data
• Definitions of data fields and utilizing quality control measures
• Working with Occupation Employment and Wage statistics data at the regional, state and national demand levels along with available sector data.
• Working with Labor Market Projections
• Developing a simple Stock and Flow supply and demand projection model.

This workshop is designed to provide the opportunity to develop the components of a labor market study for your state. Participants with any experience or skill level are welcome to attend.

Session Instructor

Patricia Moulton Burwell, PhD is the Director of the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers. She has 24 years of experience conducting workforce research, developing programs and collaborating with state and national stakeholders. She created and led the ND Center for Nursing for 11 years. She has conducted nursing workforce research in multiple states and at the national level.  She has close to 100 peer-reviewed publications and white papers and has presented at over 120 local, state, national and international conferences.

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Strategies for Writing Workforce Reports 1:00 – 3:00 PM

Session Description

This 2-hour interactive workshop will provide attendees with skills to assist them with the development of a reporting strategy that will help improve awareness and use of state-level nursing workforce data. Topics covered in the workshop include:

• Identifying and leveraging target audiences
• Focusing on critical questions and important data points
• Talking about complicated data/findings in simple terms
• Matching dissemination methods to the audience

Participants will work hands-on exercises that will assist them with developing or refining their own data reporting strategies. Participants will engage in discussion and be encouraged to provide peer feedback on each other’s current or potential reporting approaches.

This workshop is designed for people who write reports, especially reports that include data, and who want to improve their target audience’s awareness of, engagement with, or use of those reports. Participants with any reporting experience or skill level are welcome.

Session Instructor

Carrie M. Oliveira, Ph.D. is the Workforce Researcher for the Hawaii State Center for Nursing, where she designs the collection and reporting strategy for the state’s largest body of nursing workforce data. Her primary function is translating workforce data into accessible reports used by key stakeholders, including legislative bodies and executive leaders in healthcare and education.

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Using Data from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses 3:30 – 5:30 PM 

Session Description

The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) dataset is the only publicly available national dataset of registered nurses and, thus, provides a unique opportunity for states with no state-collected RN/APRN data to develop measures on RNs/APRNs in their state, and opportunity for researchers to conduct cross-state comparison research. This two-hour hands-on workshop will provide attendees with skills for accessing, understanding, and using the data to obtain descriptive RN/APRN measures and answer research questions. Topics covered in the workshop will include:

• How to access the NSSRN data and years of data available
• NSSRN survey design
• Downloading and using the data
• Survey weights: why we use them and how to use them in NSSRN
• How to develop good research questions
• How to use Excel and SPSS to answer at least one research question

Participants will be encouraged to obtain state-level descriptive information on RNs/APRNs or answer at least one research question of their own with the data; groups of participants from the same state or participants who want to collaborate on the same research project can work together. There will be opportunity for feedback on participants’ work.

This workshop is designed for people who are interested in using the NSSRN to provide descriptive information about RNs/APRNs in their state and those who would like to conduct research using NSSRN data. The workshop will start with basic information about the data and how to conduct research using the data. Therefore, participants at all skill levels are welcome.

Session Instructor

Dr. Yetty Shobo is the Director of the Virginia Department of Health Professions’ Healthcare Workforce Data Center and Data Analytics Division. Her research on the healthcare workforce has resulted in several presentations, publications, and podcasts. In her current position, she oversees healthcare workforce research and policies, and health workforce data governance and analytics in Virginia. She is the creator of several dashboards that provide customizable healthcare workforce data to the public and empower public involvement in healthcare workforce programs and policies

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Creating Data Dashboards 3:30 – 5:30 PM 

Session Description

This 2-hour workshop will provide attendees with the foundations of dashboard building, as well as an interactive session to help attendees build their first dashboard in Tableau Public. Topics covered in the workshop include:

• Introduction to Data Dashboards
• Approaches to Dashboard building
• Introduction to Tableau dashboards
• Building your first dashboard using public data

The first half of the session will familiarize participants with dashboard building and provides key principles to consider while building a dashboard as a researcher. The second half of the session will guide participants through building their first dashboard in Tableau Public using publicly available data which has been prepared for the session.

This workshop is designed to provide valuable information for both beginners and advanced dashboard builders. We encourage participants to work together during the interactive portion of the session.

Session Instructor

Alexander M. Alsup, Ph.D. is the Data Scientist and Statistician for the Kansas Nursing Workforce Center, and an Assistant Research Professor for the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Biostatistics & Data Science. Alex leads the acquisition, storage, and analysis of data for the Nursing Workforce Center. He produces the tables, visualizations, and statistical interpretations present in their nursing workforce reports, as well as designing their dashboards.

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This activity is jointly provided by the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence, which is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence is responsible for the ANCC criteria, and if the learners have questions re: nursing professional development contact hours, contact Callie@coloradonursingcenter.org. 

Fullfillment Policy

Refund Policy:  A full refund of registration ticket prices are available through June 10th when ticket sales close. Email Info@nursingworkforcecenters.org to request a refund. NO REFUNDS will be processed after June 10, 2026.

Cancellation Policy: Your registration ticket can be cancelled using the refund policy.

Delivery Policy:  Your ticket will be emailed you after successful purchase.

Conference Hotel

Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

1300 Nicollet Mall

Minneapolis, MN 55403

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The cut-off date for our special discounted room block is May 29, 2026. 

Keynote Speakers TBD

• How can I submit an abstract to present?  Abstract submission is open now until February 1, 2026.
• When is conference registration open?  Conference registration is now open.
• Where is the conference being held?  The Conference is being held at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, MN
• I would like to purchase an exhibit table. How do I do that?  Exhibit tables are Bronze Sponsorship.  Sponsorship registration is open now until May 15, 2026.
• Who attends the conference?  We are anticipating over 200 attendees from across the United States. This includes national and state nursing workforce researchers and planners, federal and state regulators, health care administration, nursing education administrators and policy makers.
• Who do I contact if I have questions?  You can contact Patricia Moulton Burwell, PhD, Director of the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers.  Her email address is info@nursingworkforcecenters.org 
• What is an Associate Organization Subscription? This new membership category is for any organization across the nursing workforce continuum.  Click for more information.
• What is an Associate Individual Subscription?  Anyone interested in joining our national network can become an Associate Subscriber.  Some of the benefits include participation on national committees and sharing sessions, a discounted annual conference rate, access to our online subscription portal that includes an expert directory, discussion forums, events and nursing workforce resources.  Click for more information. 
• What are State Subscribers?  State subscribers are the leading organization in each state that is working on nursing workforce and has registered with the National Forum to participate in our network.   Click here to see our location map.   Click here for more information about state subscriptions.