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Nurse Workforce Initiative Evaluation

Announced by Governor Davis in January 2002, the Nurse Workforce Initiative (NWI) was a $34 million effort to increase the supply of nurses in California. The NWI included regional collaboratives to increase nurse supply, career ladder programs, and workplace reform pilot projects. The evaluation of the NWI is being conducted by researchers at UCSF and UCLA, using state, national, institutional, and individual data. In addition, qualitative research methods are being used to examine specific programs of the NWI.

Reports:

Chapman S, Spetz J, Matthias R, Seago JA, Morrison E, Rickles J, Dyer W. (2004) California Nurse Workforce Initiative Early Process Report: Implementation of Project Initiatives. Sacramento, CA: Employment Development Department. July 2004.

Spetz J, Rickles J, Ong P. (2004) California's Nursing Labor Force: Demand, Supply and Shortages. Sacramento, CA: Employment Development Department. Full Text

Spetz J. Rickles J, Dyer W, Hailer L, Ong PM. (2008) California’s Nursing Labor Force: Demand, Supply, and Shortages. San Francisco, CA: Center for the Health Professions.
Report
Regional data appendix

Other publications:

Rickles J, Ong PM, Spetz J. (2005) California Policy Options: Supplying California's Need for Nurses. In California Policy Options 2005, ed. Daniel J.B. Mitchell. Los Angeles: UCLA School of Public Affairs.

Spetz J. (2004) Hospital nurse wages and staffing, 1977-2002: Cycles of shortage and surplus. Journal of Nursing Administration. 34(9): 415-422. Abstract

Contact: Nurse Workforce Initiative Evaluation Team

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