Leadership Task Force Mission

• Hold quarterly meetings of the SNMIC
• Insure task force groups are meeting regularly, and develop performance reports for each group
• Create a public relations strategy for the Coalition
• Develop a website for internal and external communications
• Actively recruit new members/volunteers to participate in the Coalition

Healthcare Strategic Alliances Task Force Mission

• A research report/document that quantifies the community’s health assets, facilities, program and infrastructure
• A report that documents our area's healthcare "gaps"
• A report that reviews the major hospitals' plans for future growth (programs & facilities)
• Promote strategic collaborations between our healthcare providers and academic institutions (building upon our strength and creating new linkages)

Improving the Workplace / Retention Task Force Mission

• Support the research/study conducted by the UNLV on the "Educational Preparation and First Job Experience of Recent RN Graduates"
• Promote the research to assist in the improvement of the workplace for nurses in Southern Nevada
• Develop a public relations/communications strategy on the "recommendations" of the UNLV study
• Educate the public on the demands of the nursing profession and workplace issues
• PSA's
• Chamber & cities communications

Legislation / Regulation Policy Task Force Mission

• Prioritize selected bills/initiatives to actively support or defeat:
• "Keep Our Doctors in Nevada" campaign/citizen initiative is extremely important and needs to be supported
• The "Mutual Recognition" Bill (SB93) needs our support, which increases the number of nurses in Nevada by recognizing/approving their licenses from other states
• Defeat the efforts by selected special interest groups to mandate nursing to patient ratios (interim ratio study by the legislature). It will take a difficult situation/issue; make it worse and cause the nursing shortage to tumble even further
• A long-term legislative strategy is to support higher education's financial needs for additional funding for teaching nurses (increasing the number of graduates)
• Support the development of a Regional Health Plan by the Health District

Education Task Force Mission

Marketing – create a brochure promoting the educational institutions and their medical programs. Discuss curriculum and articulation

• Assist in the creation of new scholarships for nursing students an d highlight the outstanding efforts by the medical institutions with their existing scholarships
• Research the opportunities to increase mentoring volunteers to assist the educational institutions and the nursing students
• Develop an "environmental slant" of what educational programs we have in place (public and private) and what are their plans for the future
• See ways to simplify the process of advancing within the nursing field (educational articulation
• Develop a speakers bureau/directory of volunteers (doctors/nurses) that would guest lecture and provide schools with their knowledge, which would assist the faculty and students

Recruitment Task Force Mission

• Develop a nursing and recruitment strategy in partnership with the private placement agencies and medical institutions