Ventura Nursing Legacy Project

Year 1 Major Program Accomplishments

• Established a regional PIN Committee comprised of 28 nurse leaders from nursing education, practice, public agencies and health care providers who met regularly to develop consensus around priority nursing issues.
• Developed and distributed the Consensus Report on Ventura County Priority Nursing Issues (Click here to download the Consensus Report) outlining the 14 major priority issues affecting nursing in Ventura County.
• The VNLP hosted the first Ventura County Nursing Summit in April, 2007, to unveil the Consensus Report on Ventura County Priority Nursing Issues and elicit stakeholder and community input to identify and prioritize strategies to address these major issues. The Summit engaged a broad group of stakeholders across multiple sectors who reviewed the priority issues and began to dialogue about effective strategies to address these issues.
• Developed strategies in response to regional priority issues. 212 strategies were originally identified by Nursing Summit participants. 64 viable strategies were distilled from the rich raw data generated by the Summit participants. Various criteria including fundability were applied to the 64 viable strategies from which eight overarching themes emerged:
  1. Pipeline improvements
  2. Recruitment, retention, retraining, re-entry
  3. Management and professional development
  4. Workforce education
  5. Collaboration among existing groups & information sharing
  6. Cross-institutional issues of service and academia
  7. Faculty preparation and compensation
  8. Policy implications