Developing a Process Infrastructure to Capture Supply, Education, and Demand Data for Indiana's Nursing Workforce

The primary purpose of this project was to develop an infrastructure that established guidelines for the collection, analyses, and reporting of data utilizing the National Minimum Data sets (MDS) on the supply, education, and demand data for Indiana's nursing workforce. The initiative was undertaken as part of the Indiana Center for Nursing's (ICN) strategic initiative to create the centralized repository for Indiana's nursing workforce data and to ensure a seamless transition of the data to the future national workforce data repository. The infrastructure guidelines were created using recommendations from the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers, and the Indiana Board of Nursing. The standardized infrastructure guidelines promote timely and accurate collection, analyses, and reporting from the MDS documents not only regarding nursing supply and education, but also nursing demand, a data set that was not collected by the ICN before this project.