Economic Development

Job Growth/Private Sector Investment

Personal Income/Average Standard of Living Increase

Reduction of Poverty/Public Assistance Recipients

Improved Satisfaction/Perception of Local Business Climate

By establishing a region that values high-quality nursing care, the Nursing Institute will both create and retain jobs in the Dayton Area. Most of the conditions needed for this to occur already exist. Higher education institutions are producing new nurses, and a large number of currently employed nurses are looking to ladder-up in their career. By the same token, hospitals and other service providers are desperately trying to meet their existing nursing workforce needs. Witness to this desire is the weekly investment seen by healthcare service providers, particularly hospitals and nursing homes, in classified ads and unseen through nursing recruitment consulting firms. Yet, our region is still experiencing a critical shortage of nurses, and that’s because no organization serves as a liaison between education and practice, and no organization collects and analyzes much needed data regarding our nursing workforce that can be used to improve satisfaction and retention among Dayton’s nurses. There is no organization to tackle nursing-specific human resource factors such as satisfaction and retention, and for all of these reasons, our nurses flee the region, or even the profession altogether. The Nursing Institute will fill all of these gaps in a way that temporary employment agencies and job training centers simply cannot, and in doing so, will help to send a message to nursing professionals that West Central Ohio is a region that that values and invests in nursing.

The Nursing Institute will provide job growth and improve the local business climate by recruiting and providing training for future nurses, providing convenient, high quality programs for nurses and meeting continuing education needs of nurses.

Expanding nursing education offerings will increase the employment options of low-income residents and increase personal income and, as a result, will reduce poverty and public assistance.

The local business climate will improve significantly by meeting the extreme shortage of nurses in west central Ohio.

Education and Training

Post High School Placement/Academic Preparation

Student/Adult Skilling, Re-Skilling and Training for High Value Employment

The Nursing Institute's Nursing Education Center will address the nursing profession's image and facilitate interest in nursing careers, meet needs of future nurses in science, mathematics and reading, as well as recruit and retain students in nursing programs. This center will also enhance existing pre-nursing and nursing education programs, as well as develop and pilot new programs designed to meet identified needs of the community and local employers.

The project's Professional Practice Center will serve as a central clearinghouse for nursing recruitment and retention initiatives, and will also pilot projects directed at recruiting and retaining nurses in practice and in teaching. These activities will substantially enhance nursing care delivery, nursing education and nursing administration.

Quality Public Services

Improved Health Care/Life Expectancy/Illness Prevention

The Nursing Institute, in partnership with regional medical centers, other health care employers, higher education and K-12 education, will provide extensive education, practice, and research programs to improve health care, life expectancy, and illness prevention.