Reports > State Responses to Health Worker Shortages:
Results of 2002 Survey of States > State Details
> Oklahoma Task
Force, Commission or Panel - In
2002, Oklahoma established the Nursing Workforce Task Force to identify strategies
to:
- enhance
recruitment and retention
- increase
health career marketing
- develop
uniform data collection
- upgrade
the image of nursing and eliminate barriers to mobility in education and career
advancement
- identify
and implement best practice retention models for employers;
· assure that
governmental payors and private insurers adequately cover labor costs - describe
the roles and responsibilities of private and public organizations in addressing
nursing workforce shortage issues
- gather
information on work by other groups regarding the nursing shortage
- For
more information: Oklahoma Nurses Association
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