Title
Toward Standardization (Part 1): Assessment Of State And National Nursing Workforce Data Sources
Keywords
minimum data sets; nursing data; nursing workforce
Abstract
Despite concerns expressed over the past 25 years, little progress has been made in improving the accuracy, availability, and timeliness of national data on the U.S. nursing workforce. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we review the current national data sources on nurse supply, demand, and education programs. We discuss the advantages that state-level data collection efforts enjoy in many states and propose that national data sets could be easily and cost-effectively built from state-level contributions-if states collected a standardized set of information. As part of a larger effort to standardize state-level data, from July to December 2008, we analyzed surveys and codebooks from 26 states collecting nurse workforce data. We present the results of this data assessment and conclude that data collection practices as of 2008 varied substantially from state to state. Creation and adoption of standardized minimum nursing workforce data sets is suggested to bring states into alignment. © The Author(S) 2010.
Publication Date
8-1-2010
Publication Title
Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice
Volume
11
Issue
3
Number of Pages
173-183
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1177/1527154410390521
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
79953041138 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79953041138
STARS Citation
Nooney, Jennifer G.; Cleary, Brenda L.; Moulton, Patricia; Wiebusch, Pamela L.; and Murray, Jennifer L., "Toward Standardization (Part 1): Assessment Of State And National Nursing Workforce Data Sources" (2010). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 989.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/989