<strong>2017</strong> South Dakota Nurses Association <strong>SDNA</strong> Committee Reports South Dakota Center for Nursing Workforce The South Dakota Center for Nursing Workforce (CNW), initially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was established in 1996 as the SD Colleagues in Caring Project. At the completion of the grant in 2002, state legislation was enacted in the Nurse Practice Act. This legislation, SDCL 36-9-95 and 36-9-96, created the CNW and a funding source. The South Dakota Board of Nursing is the lead agency for the CNW. The mission of the CNW is to design a nursing workforce prepared to partner with South Dakota citizens to meet their changing health needs. Members of the CNW Governance Council provide guidance and strategic direction for the CNW. South Dakota Center for Nursing Workforce Governance Council Members: Diana Berkland, PhD, CNS, RN Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, Regional Area Linda Burdette, PhD, RN SDSU College of Nursing, Aberdeen Jessica Cherenegar, DNP, RN USF School of Nursing, Sioux Falls Gloria Damgaard, MS, RN, FRE Executive Director, SD Board of Nursing, Sioux Falls Barbara Hobbs, PhD, RN, NEA, BC SDSU College of Nursing, Rapid City Josie Petersen, Office of Rural Health, DOH SD Department of Health, Office of Rural Health, Pierre Darcy Sherman Justice, MS, RN, NE, BC Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, Sioux Falls Senator Deb Soholt, MS, RN Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, Sioux Falls Kayleen Werner, LPN Brown Clinic, Watertown Linda Young, MS, RN, FRE, BC Director CNW, Nursing Program Specialist, SD Board of Nursing, Sioux Falls The following strategic initiatives were developed by the Governance Council to assure that the state of South Dakota has the nursing resources necessary to meet the health care needs of its citizens: • Dialog on issues related to a culture of safety for all aspects of nursing practice, including: supporting culture of civility in the workplace to promote nurses and patient safety; promoting strategies to decrease nursing fatigue in the work place; and supporting engagement in nursing learning opportunities to maintain a competent nursing workforce. • Collect, analyze and leverage nursing workforce supply and demand data for the purposes of designing a nursing workforce to meet South Dakota’s citizens changing health needs. • Build leadership capacity of the nursing workforce, including: supporting leadership development for nurses at all levels; and supporting the national action coalition goals and objectives relating to workforce development to meet recommendations in the IOM’s Future of Nursing report. • Be a catalyst for public policy development that affects the health of the public. Activities and accomplishments supporting achievement of strategic initiates: • Maintain database on the supply, demand, and need for nurses in the state. • Present on topics relevant to the workforce and publish workforce related articles and reports; including the biennial workforce supply reports: South Dakota Nursing Workforce Supply and Employment Characteristics: <strong>2017</strong> report. Available on the Center for Nursing’s website at http://doh.sd.gov/boards/nursing/RandP.aspx. • Maintain website, http://doh.sd.gov/boards/nursing/SDcenter.aspx, to provide nurses and employers with current data on supply and demand for nurses. • Offered a Nursing Leadership Academy, January 2016 through May <strong>2017</strong>, in partnership with EmBe; 17 nurses participated and graduated. The goal of the academy is to facilitate the development of emerging nursing leaders by utilizing the experiences and skills of established nurses and community leaders to extend a hand-up to those nurses who follow. A similar program will be held in Rapid City that will begin September <strong>2017</strong>. • Financially supported educational opportunities offered by external nursing groups that supported the mission of CNW. 38
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