Center for Nursing Workforce Symposiums
The CNW Symposiums offer nurses, health care providers, consumers, educators, government officials, and other individuals in business and industry, the opportunity to convene to review and comment on data analysis; make recommendations for strategic action; and to evaluate effectiveness of actions implemented.
The Center for Nursing Workforce cohosted the Symposium, held on April 24th, 2025, with the South Dakota Nurses Association, with over 90 nurses and stakeholders participating. The Symposium featured content on South Dakota's current nursing workforce supply and education pipeline; and featured an informative presentation by the South Dakota Secretary of Health, Melissa Magstadt, RN, APRN, CNP on South Dakota's 2025 legislative update, infant and maternal health outcomes, and other SD Department of Health updates.