Highlights:

• Over 150 peer-reviewed publications, national and state white papers and policy reports

• Director, National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers

• Co-Principal Investigator and Founder, North Dakota Area Health Education Center

• Executive Director and Founder, North Dakota Center for Nursing

• Adjunct Faculty for M.S. Leadership and PhD Clinical Research Programs, University of Jamestown

• Appointed Member, HRSA, National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice

• National Rural Health Association Leadership Fellow

• National Nursing and Healthcare Workforce: Chair National Repository Workgroup

• Co-Lead North Dakota Governors Shortage Task Force

• Expert Panel Member, HHS Office of Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Health Workforce Data Panel

• National RN Shortages Expert Panel Member

• Workforce Expert: Health Workforce Assistance Center

• Chair, North Dakota Workforce Intelligences Council Steering Committee

• Managing Editor, Online Journal of Nursing Workforce

• President, National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers

• Principal Investigator and Founder of Rural Research to Diverse Audiences and Rural Health Research Gateway

• North Dakota State Health Workforce Planning Grant Co-Principal Investigator

Selected Publications:

• Moulton Burwell, Patricia (2026). Chapter 53: Nursing Workforce In press at Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care (9th Edition) Editors: Diana Mason et al. Elsevier Publications.

• National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice. (2025). Nursing at an Inflection Point: Creating Systems of Care that Support and Value the Contributions of Nurses. 20th Report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the United States Congress nacnep-20th-report.pdf

• Yang, Chien-Chang, Su, Yung-Yu. Ma, Chen-Chung& Moulton, P. (2011). Evidence-based investigation for determining the characteristics of knowledge management on organizational innovation within Taiwanese teaching hospitals. Ibusiness 03(01) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267838013

• Moulton, P., Lacey, L., Flynn, L., Kovner, C. & Brewer, C. (2009). Addressing the complexities of survey research.  In Dickson, G. & Flynn, L eds. The Research-to-Policy Connection: Nurses and their Work.  Springer: New York.

• Wakefield, M. & Moulton, P. (2008).  Enhancing Health Care for Rural Populations through Interdisciplinary training and quality improvement. Submitted to the Advisory committee on Interdisciplinary Community-Based Linkages, Division of Diversity and Interdisciplinary Education, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration.eighth-2008.pdf

• Smiley, R., Kaminski-Ozturk, N. & Reid, M., Burwell, P.M., Oliveira, C., Shobo, Y., Alllgeyer, R.L, Zhong, E.Z., O’Hara, C. Volk, A. & Martin, B. (2025). The 2024 National Nursing Workforce Survey - Journal of Nursing Regulation

• Moulton Burwell, Patricia (2025). Nursing Workforce Projections for All: State-Based Staff Registered Nurse Workforce Projections. Online Journal of Nursing Workforce 1, 1. 28-39. https://onlinejournalofnursingworkforce.com/index.php/ojnw/article/view/632

• Moulton, P., Wiebusch, PL., Cleary, BL., Brunell, ML, Napier, DF, Bienemy, C., LeVasseur, SA., Cimiotti, JP. (2012).  Towards Standardization (Part 2): Status of Implementation of National Nursing Workforce Minimum Data Sets.  Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, 13 (3), 162-9. Toward Standardization (Part 2)