To maintain a robust and well-prepared nursing workforce, Connecticut must adopt the following Recommendations:  Create a Statewide Nurse-led Collaborative to Better Understand the Current Nursing Workforce: Implement a researched based model to collect quantitative and qualitative healthcare workforce data including Education, Supply and Demand by engaging healthcare providers across the healthcare continuum and various employer settings to regularly assess key healthcare roles and occupations that are in demand. 

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Limited Capacity of Connecticut’s RN Schools and Programs of Nursing: Our Schools and Programs of Nursing have a very hire rate of student retention at approximately 95% and graduate approximately 2,100 students per year, yet it is not clear how many of these graduates become licensed in Connecticut and remain here to work. 

Reports

• 2021 CT Nursing Education Report- Demographics, Statistics and Recommendations
• ​​​2018 Nursing Education Data

Online Resources

• www.CTCenterForNursingWorkforce.com
  
• Nursing Data Portal (ctdata.org)
  
• https://oadn.org/news/nacnep-report-preparing-nurse-faculty-and-addressing-the-shortage-of-nurse-faculty-and-clinical-preceptors/
  
• https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/dfigital-education-for-building-health-workforce-capacity-978-92-4-000047-6

Lack of a Systemic Plan to Address the Aging of the Nursing Workforce

​As 56% of the Full-Time nursing workforce in Connecticut are over the age of 50, partnerships must be created between State Agencies, Healthcare Trade & Professional Associations and practice settings with the sole focus of workforce strategic planning to address the large number of retirements that will occur over the next 5- 10 years. ​

• Reports
  • Who's Caring for You
  • Promoting and Empowering Beside Nurses

• Web Content-
  • https://www.nursingworkforcecenters.org/
  • www.CTCenterForNursingWorkforce.com
  • Nursing Data Portal (ctdata.org)

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As both RNs and LPNs comprise the largest licensed profession in the health workforce, it is critical that Connecticut dedicate, time, energy and resources to better understand the Education, Supply and Demand dynamics for nursing professionals to ensure that our State can produce the numbers and types of nurses that we will need to provide safe and quality care to our residents. ​