What is a State Nursing Workforce Center? - Patricia Moulton Burwell, PhD

Frontline Nursing

Frontline Nursing
What is a State Nursing Workforce Center? - Patricia Moulton Burwell, PhD
May 20, 2026 Season 3 Episode 5
Hosted by Rayna Letourneau, PhD, RN

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This special episode is hosted by Conor Farrell, a master’s student at the University of South Florida College of Public Health. Featured guest Patricia Moulton Burwell, PhD, discusses the value of state nursing workforce centers, quantitative data vs. qualitative data, and more.

Dr. Moulton Burwell has over 22 years of experience working with nursing workforce centers. She is the current Director of the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers and is a Research Consultant for the Washington Center for Nursing. She also created and led the North Dakota Center for Nursing for 11 years. She has conducted nursing workforce research in multiple states and at the national level. She has close to 100 peer-reviewed publications and white papers and has presented at over 120 local, state, national and international conferences. She has served in a leadership role on over $15 million of foundation, state, and federal grants supporting health services projects including nursing workforce. She is currently serving on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Advisory Council on Nursing Education and Practice. She received her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of North Dakota in 2002.

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National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Advisory Council on Nursing Education and Practice

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