Updated: Nursing Employment in Wyoming

• From First Quarter 2009 through First Quarter 2011
• CNAs, LPNs, RNs & APNs
• Hospitals, Ambulatory Care, and Long-Term Care Facilities
• Over-the-quarter and over-the-year changes in employment
• Average Wages, Age, Tenure, and Exit Rate by Quarter
• Employment by Age Group

Occasional Paper No. 6

Health Care Workforce Needs in Wyoming: Advancing the Study

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Demographics and Health Care
• Chapter 3. State and Local Health Care Shortages
• Chapter 4. Projected Demand and Health Care Shortages
• Chapter 5. Commuting Impacts on Health Care
• Appendix A. Licensed Professional Data
• Appendix B. Additional Tables and Charts

Public Health Nursing:
Succession Planning and Satisfaction Measures
in Public Health

Published August 2009.

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• PDF

The NEW Report: Nurse Employment in Wyoming

• Current Report
• Sample Report: Nurse Employment in Wyoming (NEW) Hospitals, First Quarter 2006 (2006Q1) Through First Quarter 2008 (2008Q1) (PDF, 2.7MB)

Nurses in Wyoming:
Demand, Retention, & Supply

A Three-Part Study for the Wyoming Health Care Commission

PART III — Vacancies and Recruitment and Retention Strategies

Vacancies and Recruitment and Retention Strategies in Health Care

(64 pages, 1.25MB PDF, published November 2008)

PART II — Nursing Retention

Retention of Nurses in Wyoming

(308 pages, 1.5MB PDF, Published August 2008)

Contents:

Chapter 1: The System as a Whole

• Introduction
• Review of Literature Related to Nursing Retention
• Synopsis of Methodology
• Factor Analysis
• From Modeling to Prediction
• Comment Analysis
• Comments on Modeled Concepts
• Why Age Is important
• Age and Nativity
• Analysis of Comments by Age
• Labor Flow Components
• Differences Between Net Mortality and Permanent Exit
• Employer-Level Turnover Rates by Industry and Experience
• Comparing Labor Market Outcomes for Nurses, Teachers, State Employees, and a Control Group

2. Description of the System

• Nurse Commuting Patterns: Where Nurses Live and Work
• Nurses Leaving the Labor Market
• Staffing Levels, Employment, and Employer-Level Exits in Ambulatory Health Care Services, Nursing & Residential Care Facilities, and Hospitals
• Using Administrative Databases to Document the Source of Nurse Hires and Destination of Nurse Exits among Health Care Subsectors in Wyoming

3. Methodology

Appendix A: Survey Instrument

Appendix B: Frequency Tables

Appendix C: Factor Analysis Results

• What’s a Regression Model?
• Factor Analysis
• Factor Analysis Tables

PART I — Nursing Demand

Nurses in Demand:
A Statement of the Problem

(106 pages, 9MB PDF, Published March 2008)

Chapters:

1. U.S. & Wyoming Demographic Profile
2. Projections of Registered Nurses Needed to 2014
3. A Comparison of Employment and Wages in Health Care in Wyoming, 2000 to 2007
4. Hospital Admission and Discharges by Age Group, Major Diagnostic Code, Hospital Unit, and Patient Length of Stay
5. Substate Economic-Demographic Interaction and the Health Care Delivery System

PART I — Summary Document

Nurses in Demand:
Statement of the Problem

(Summary Publication. Twelve pages, 1.37MB PDF, Submitted for Printing March 2008)