1. Data for Decision-Making: Databases for Evidence-Based Planning
Objective:
To provide students, researchers and decision-makers with access to clean, timely, accurate data about the nursing workforce.
Key activities:
Primary databases  have been developed and linked to secondary databases (e.g. College of Nurses of Ontario) to advance methodologies for addressing health service research questions.
Implications for practice and policy:
Current data repositories provide new information to facilitate ongoing research and to enhance informed government and organization decision-making.