National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)

Type: Public Relations

1958

Media Mentions

388

Impressions

7

Advertising Value Equivalency

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The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that champions nursing regulatory solutions to borderless health care delivery, agile regulatory systems and nurses practicing to the full scope of their education, experience and expertise.

Key Highlights:

  • Coordinated all necessary details to host an event in Washington D.C.
  • Conducted proactive media outreach with national, local and trade media to share research under embargo
  • Helped identify panelists within different sectors of healthcare policy, nursing education, government relations, and nursing regulation to lead a discussion of the research
  • Invited over 75 stakeholders spanning media, government relations, health care policy, university and nursing profession audiences
  • Recorded the panel for additional publicity purposes

Overview

Every two years, NCSBN conducts the only national-level survey specifically focused on the U.S. nursing workforce. Its 2022 Workforce Study revealed that 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic and by 2027, almost 900,000, or almost one-fifth of 4.5 million total registered nurses, reported an intent to leave the workforce – threatening the national health care system at large if solutions are not enacted.

With the collected data signaling significant nursing workforce shortages and a crisis in the health care industry at large, NCSBN engaged Reputation Partners to implement a strategic public relations campaign to release the 2022 Nursing Workforce Survey results to relevant stakeholders, including national media, U.S. health systems, federal and state public policy makers and nursing academia.

Strategy

Our team released the study at a research event and stakeholder-led panel in Washington D.C., home to key health care and national media, decision leaders and policy makers.

Leading up to the event, we worked with NCSBN to identify panelists with a vested interest in the future of the nursing industry to review the research and provide potential solutions to the nursing workforce crisis. The full panel included the following individuals:

  • Maryann Alexander, Chief Officer of Nursing Regulation at NCSBN (Moderator)
  • Antonia Villarruel, Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Gay Landstrom, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing officer at Trinity Health System
  • Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, U.S. Representative of Delaware’s at-large congressional
    district.
  • Robyn Begley, CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and CNO/Sr. VP for the American Hospital Association
  • Rayna M. Letourneau, PhD, RN, Executive Director at the Florida Center for Nursing


Furthermore, we regularly coordinated with top-tier media to tease out key insights under embargo, so
they were prepared to cover the research once released to the public.

Results

As a result of our work, mentions of the NCSBN Workforce Study appeared across top-tier national, broadcast, print and online media: