Nursing Workforce Reports: State of Maine

2010

• OMNE Minimum Nurses Data Set (2006-2008, June 2010)

2009

• Highlights of the Fall 2009 Survey of Maine Nursing Education Programs
  

2008

• Highlights of the Fall 2008 Survey of Maine Nursing Education Programs
  

2007

• Highlights of the Fall 2007 Survey of Maine Nursing Education Programs

• Report:  Maine Minimum Data Set Maine's Nurses who renewed their licenses between September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2006

• Annual survey results of Maine's nursing educational programs (Fall 2006).
  Fall 2006 Survey of Maine Nursing Education Programs

2006

• Report: Maine Minimum Data Set Maine's Nurses who Renewed their Licenses between September 1, 2002 and August 31, 2004
  
  
• The Five Year Trek: Maine's Nursing Workforce Legislative Initiative, A PowerPoint presentation by Lisa Harvey-McPherson and Jane Marie Kirschling. Presented at the Maine Nursing Summit on March 29, 2006.
  
  
• Maine's RN Nursing Workforce, A PowerPoint presentation by Jane Kirschling. Presented to OMNE Nursing Leaders of Maine, February 17, 2006.
  
  
• Annual survey results of Maine's nursing educational programs (Fall 2005).
  Fall 2005 Survey of Maine Nursing Education Programs

2005

Legislation

1. LD263 "An Act To Support and Expand Nursing Education Opportunities at Maine's Public Universities" http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280014848
   
2. LD405 "Resolve, To Establish a Long-term Care Education Pilot Program for Registered Nurses" http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280015056
   
3. Legislation LD892 "An Act to Ensure An Adequate Supply of a Skilled Health Care Workforce" http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280015754
   
4. Legislation LD1494 An Act to Increase Faculty In Maine Nursing Education Programs" http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?ID=280016985
   

• The Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs of the Legislature requested that a strategic plan for nursing for the State of Maine be drafted jointly by the Community College System and the University of Maine System.
  Strategic Plan for Maine's Nursing Programs: University of Maine System and Maine Community College System (January 20, 2005)
  
  
• The Maine Health Access Foundation issues three reports on "Finding and Training Tomorrow's Health Care Workers for Maine". Produced by researchers from the University of New England (UNE) and the University of Southern Maine (USM), the reports assess needs and solutions statewide, in one community (Lewiston-Auburn), and for geriatrics, the medical specialty focused on aging. http://www.mehaf.org/default.asp?znews=980&nf=1
  


• Annual survey results of Maine's nursing educational programs (Fall 2004).
  Fall 2004 Survey of Maine Nursing Education Programs

2004

• In January 2004 OMNE Nursing Leaders of Maine issued the "2003 Overview of Maine's Nursing Graduate Capacity". At the directive of the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs, OMNE convened interested parties in 2003 to conduct a nursing graduate capacity study. Recommendations included permanent funding to providing ongoing nursing workforce data collection and analysis, permanent accountability for assessing the impact of changes in health care and nursing workforce initiatives; passage of legislation to create a nursing faculty loan repayment program; and, University System and Community College system initiatives to increase funding to provide competitive nursing faculty wages and collaborative planning.
  2003 Overview of Maine's Nursing Graduate Capacity
  
  
• Annual survey results of Maine's nursing educational programs (Fall 2003).
Fall 2003 Survey of Maine Nursing Education Programs

2003

• The Committee to Address the Health Care Skilled Worker Shortage, comprised of health care leaders, state legislators, and higher education officials, called for a series of actions in 2003 to address worker shortages.
  
  
• Annual survey results of Maine's nursing educational programs (Fall 2002).
  Fall 2002 Survey of Maine Nursing Education Programs
  
  
• Data on 10,178 nurses licensed in Maine was collected in 2001-2002, results of this survey are provided in the following report.
  Maine’s Nursing Workforce 2001-2002 Sample
  

2002

• The Health Care Workforce Leadership Council was established in 2002 by the legislature to ensure an adequate supply of skilled health care workers in the state.
  http://janus.state.me.us/legis/ros/lom/LOM120th/1Res70-100/Res70-100-19.htm


• In May 2002 OMNE Nursing Leaders of Maine issued the "2002 Overview on Maine's Nursing and Health Care Workforce". At the directive of the Health and Human Services Committee, OMNE convened interested parties to meet and review LD 1085 Resolve, To Improve Staffing in Healthcare Settings and LD 1346, Resolve, To Establish a Commission to Study the Healthcare Workforce Shortage. Recommendations included strategies related to image, education, and best practices to improve the work environment.
  2002 Overview on Maine's Nursing and Health Care Workforce
  
  
• The second Maine Nursing Summit was held in Augusta, Maine on December 6, 2002. The following report was issued summarizing the work during the Summit.
  Nursing Summit 2002 Report
  

2001

• The first Maine Nursing Summit was held in Augusta, Maine on December 4, 2001. The following report was issued summarizing the work during the Summit.
  Nursing Summit 2001 Report