The report sheds a light on the unique challenges facing the nursing profession and presents a coordinated series of collectively planned, carefully sequenced, and evidence-based solutions to retain, return, integrate and recruit nurses both in the short- and medium-term targeted to support the nursing workforce across their career-course. It also suggests complementary strategies to embed cyclical planning, enhancing nursing workforce data and enabling nursing stakeholders and policy decision makers to decision-support platforms that would support better planning for the nursing workforce across sectors and jurisdictions.