Oregon Center for Nursing 

The Oregon Center for Nursing (OCN), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was established by nursing leaders in 2002 with a mission to provide the leadership to solve the nursing workforce shortage in Oregon.  The Oregon Center for Nursing fulfills this critical leadership role through collaborative work and coordination or a variety of programs, projects and initiatives in the areas of:

• Nursing workforce analysis and research
• Nursing workforce diversity
• Nursing leadership development
• Long term care leadership development
• Support of nursing education initiatives and innovations
• StudentMAX® clinical placement program

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OCN Diversity Projects

The current diversity projects of the Oregon Center for Nursing advance several of OCN's strategic goals, including promotion of a diverse nursing workforce, support of educational transformation and development and support for the recruitment and retention of nurses in the workplace. The Nursing Workforce Diversity Initiative (NWDI) efforts began in 2005 as the result of a regional Nursing Workforce Diversity Summit hosted by the Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing in partnership with OCN and several regional health care systems, schools of nursing, public health departments, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic foundations.

Two projects, led by the Oregon Center for Nursing, have resulted from the NWDI's work: the Nurturing Cultural Competence in Nursing (NCCN) program, and the Nursing Student Admissions Database (NSAD) project.