Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies

Who We Are

The Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies (TCNWS) is part of the Center for Health Statistics at the Department of State Health Services and serves as a resource for data and research on the nursing workforce in Texas. This includes collecting and analyzing data on nurses in Texas in regard to:

• Educational and employment trends
• Supply and demand trends
• Nursing workforce demographics
• Migration of nurses

Mission

To develop and maintain a statewide system that serves stakeholders by describing and forecasting the supply and demand of the changing nursing workforce in Texas.

Vision

Quality healthcare for all Texans through an optimal nursing workforce based on reliable, valid, and useful data.

Latest News

• The next meeting of the TCNWS Advisory Committee will be held Wednesday, February 26^th. Information can be found on the meeting page. 
• The 2024 Hospital, Long Term Care, and Home Health and Hospice Nurse Staffing Study reports have been published. 
• The 2024 Workplace Violence Against Nurses Survey of Employers report has been published. 
• The 2024 Workplace Violence Against Nurses Survey of Individual Nurses report has been published. 
• The 2024 Clinical Training Needs Survey report has been published. 
• The 2023 Report on Clinical Sites Used by Nursing Education Programs has been published.