Core Issue Task Forces and Goals
Table I: 2007 South Dakota Nurses Association Needs Assessment Core Issue Goals
Task Force: Education
Core Issues: Nurse Preparation
Continuing Education
Goals:
- Establish a series of workshops addressing needs identified in the Needs Assessment and strategic planning activities using traditional, electronic, and innovative delivery methods.
- Provide a forum for nursing education and nursing practice collaboration to enhance student learning experiences.
- Evaluate the need for changes in nursing education to meet the health care and nursing needs of the future.
- Introduce/support legislation to improve access to and provide financial support for entry level and graduate nursing degrees.
Task Force: Economic Value
Core Issue: Nursing Shortage
Goals:
- Establish strategies and recommendations to improve nurse salaries and benefits
- Recommend innovative compensation packages to retain and recruit nurses
- Collect data related to nurse salaries throughout SD and compare to other similar nursing markets and other healthcare disciplines
Task Force: Work Environment
Core Issues: Work Place Advocacy
Patient and Nurse Safety
Goals:
- Explore and recommend strategies to improve working conditions for nurses
- Explore and recommend evidence based strategies to enhance patient safety
Task Force: Nursing Delivery Systems/Nursing Models
Core Issue: Preparing for Health Care of the Future
Nurse Delivery Systems
Nursing Roles/ Multiple Preparation Issues
Advanced Practice Nursing
Goals:
- Explore methods to enhance the role of the nurse and the quality of care within the nursing organizations and departments throughout the state
- Explore ways to use efficient, economical resources to assist the nurse
Task Force: Public Relations/Communication
Core Issues: Communication/ Relationships
Collaboration
Nursing Image and Visibility
Goals:
- Provide public education and services to the community to project the image of nursing and to help the consumer better understand the role of the nurse in health care.
- Create partnerships and collaborate with other nursing organizations and health care disciplines to further the nursing role in health care policy decisions.