Ohio State Implementation Program Ohio Action Coalition Education and Data Advancement Phase 2 Project Plans: Areas of Focus: The project will address the Institute of Medicine Report the Future of Nursing: Leading Change and Advancing Health, including (1) increasing the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree in Ohio’s nursing workforce. The project will accomplish this initiative by adopting a competency-based nursing model to provide a framework for nursing education and practice; hosting regional meetings to explain competencies and begin developing education/practice partnerships to move the strategy forward; hosting regional meetings to determining the gap between education and practice; integrating competency education models into seamless progression pathways for RNs to achieve a BSN; increasing number of BSNs in workforce; tracking and developing reports to show progress. • Education • Data Contact: Jane Mahowald Project Director Ohio League for Nursing [email protected] In addition, the project will focus on (2) building an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of interprofessional health care workforce data. The project will accomplish this initiative by performing data collection and analysis. This data will also be used as part of Ohio’s primary health care database and OAC Work Groups will use this data.