Mission and Vision

• Develop nursing workforce supply and demand projection methodologies specific to different healthcare disciplines

• Gather information from major employer groups and members of healthcare professions concerning trends in unmet workforce demand such as recruitment, retention, and inability to fill existing positions

• Provide supply and demand information at local levels

• Produce studies of the state’s nursing workforce education programs

• Monitor trends in enrollment, graduation, and retention in active practice to include estimates of changes needed in South Carolina educational program enrollments in order to address demand projections

• Produce and disseminate policy-level reports, research, and publications for broad use by healthcare policymakers in various settings

• Establish Web access to information concerning all aspects of nursing workforce supply, demand and education, including the ability of the user to generate queries and reports via a rapid retrieval application

• Partner with others in the field to develop special studies related to the state’s healthcare workforce.