Leveraging the Hawai'i Nurse Residency Collaborative to Optimize Statewide Workforce Goals.

This article describes the planning and implementation of the Hawai'i Nurse Residency Program (HNRP). The HNRP provides a shared, adaptable nurse residency program model. Through the HNRP, Hawai'i achieved high new-graduate retention and addressed other state initiatives.

Occupational Stress among Hospital-Based Nurses in Hawai'i during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey.

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption in health care systems and may continue to do so. Nurses, the largest contingent of the nation's health care workforce, have borne the brunt of those disruptions, which have caused increased workload and resultant occupational stress. This study identified differences in nurses' occupational stress by practice specialty, time spent caring for patients with COVID-19, and nurses' demographic characteristics.

Hawai'i's nursing workforce: keeping pace with healthcare.

Nursing is the largest segment of the healthcare workforce, but over the next decade even more nurses will be required. Changing population demographics, new technologies, and evolving models of healthcare will stimulate expansion of nursing roles and the need for a highly educated nursing workforce. The current nursing workforce is aging, and large numbers of retirements are anticipated.

Hawaii's statewide evidence-based practice program.

Hawaii's innovative statewide evidence-based practice program facilitates practice change across multiple health care systems. The innovation eliminated duplicative efforts and provided resources, was compatible with the values of health care organizations, and had experience with a pilot program. Interpersonal and mass media communication promoted and embedded the practice change.