The web connection to the Office of Missouri Nursing Workforce Development (OMNWD) based at the University of Missouri-Columbia Sinclair School of Nursing.

OMNWD Vision
Improving health care for communities by providing information for evidence-based decision making about the nursing workforce and revitalizing nursing service delivery and nursing education.

Database Mission
OMNWD believes that consumers, executives, educators and practitioners of nursing who are knowledgable of trends, current status, and future projects relating to nurse staffing will better prepare the nursing workforce for Missouri's l health care future.

Research Mission
Promoting redesign of nursing service delivery - through the concept of clarity in nurse role - and redesign of nursing education through education and clinical practice of the concepts of clarity in nurse role.

North American News
Check here for the latest news from Canada, the US, and México.

Ongoing Grant Projects

Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education

Excellence in Public Health Nursing

The Mizzou-MACC Nursing Student Project

Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education

This is a multi-dimensional program.

• If you are a student or faculty member - register here at the course message board.
• The shared course - Cultural Expeditions in Nursing - provides opportunities for undergraduate students and registered nurses to explore the role of the nurse within each country's health-care system and g row in multicultural awareness and recognition of specific health-care beliefs and values held by people from each country.
• Participation in a cultural immersion exerience locally or abroad.

January - June,
2004, 2005, 2006
(Specific course dates depend on partnering University.
Course calendar.)

Cultural Expeditions in Nursing

The ongoing series in Winter semesters focuses on cultural awareness, nurse role, and health-care systems in each country.

Students receive classroom instruction through the web-enhanced course. Field experiences can be local, regional, or international.

Course access is reached through the North American Mobility in Higher Education Message Board

Aug. 27 - Dec. 2, 2004
Jan. 20 - May 5, 2005
Aug. 25 - Dec. 8, 2005
Jan. 19 - May 4, 2006
Medical Spanish and Nurse Role in North America

These classes are held at the University of Missouri-Columbia Sinclair School of Nursing in preparation for the upcoming course in Winter - N3006: Cultural Expeditions in Nursing.

The preparatory series (fall 2004 and winter 2005) provides introductory lessons to medical Spanish and an overview of the nurse role in North America.