In early 2007, Governor Ritter issued an Executive Order creating the Nurse Workforce and Patient Care Task Force and charging it with developing standards and processes for the measurement and disclosure of nurses' contribution to the quality of patient care in licensed health care facilities, as well as evaluating the environment of nursing practice in Colorado and studying a quality measurement process for nursing.  This is the final report of that Task Force, complete with policy recommendations that have since become adopted into Colorado statute.