The Australian Nursing Workforce Survey Toolkit

The nursing workforce is an essential, complex and multi-layered component of health service organisations. Nursing service leaders and policy makers need to understand the structure and service potential of their workforce to effectively plan and optimise nursing resources in line with organisational goals. To date, these service leaders have been reliant upon staff records or population level knowledge from published research to inform their decision making and service planning.\ud \ud The Australian Nursing Workforce Survey Toolkit will enable nursing service leaders to develop real time, reliable knowledge of the practice profiles and service potential of the nursing workforce in their organisation or jurisdiction