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Vision, Grit, And Collaboration: How The Wisconsin Center For Nursing Achieved Both Sustainable Funding And Established Itself As A State Health Care Workforce Leader, Lea Acord, Gina Dennik-Champion, Sally Peck Lundeen, Suzanne Schuler

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

In 2001, a dedicated group of nurses from across Wisconsin came together to discuss how to create a state center of expertise on key nursing workforce issues. The result was the establishment of the Wisconsin Center for Nursing (WCN) in 2005. Since that time, through its statewide Board of Directors, WCN has clarified and targeted specific state workforce needs and identified gaps that exist in addressing those needs. During its five-year existence, WCN has received funding from a variety of sources, and volunteers have spent hundreds of hours working on behalf of the organization. Finding a sustainable base of funding …