• The Nursing Institute
• Meeting Strategic Community Priorities
• Rationale for Government Support
• Advisory Council
• Service Area

Goals and Planned Outcomes

One early activity of the Nursing Institute will be to work with regional partners to operationalize goals and outcomes into specific, measurable, and time-based objectives for each center. The current objectives of the Nursing Institute are to:

Improve the supply of nurses in west central Ohio (Monitor growth and demand for balance annually)

1. Increase regional enrollments among nursing programs matched to levels of need
   ° Determine opportunities to vary capacity
   ° Determine ways to predict changing needs for nurses
2. Increase regional graduation rates among nursing programs with each program setting realistic but aggressive targets
3. Increase number of licensed RNs under the age of 55 by 5% each year
4. Reduce time to fill nursing positions for hospitals and nursing schools to a manageable level
5. Reduce the gap between projected need and projected supply for two, three, and four years hence
   ° Determine target numbers

Improve the satisfaction and retention of practicing west central Ohio Nurses (Determining target rates)

1. Reduce the number of nurses leaving voluntarily for nonnursing professions in each age cohort (i.e., under 30, 31-40, etc. for those under 60 years)
2. Reduce the number nurses leaving voluntarily for non-nursing professions in each years-of-nursing-service cohort (i.e., 1st year, 2nd year, < 5 years, etc.)
3. Reduce the number of nurses who voluntarily leave nursing (for purposes other than education and with no other employment plans and who do not plan to return to nursing within 3 years) in each age cohort
4. Reduce the number of nurses who voluntarily leave nursing (for purposes other than education and with no other employment plans and who do not plan to return to nursing within 3 years) in each years-of-nursing-service cohort