- Better
Late Than Never: Workforce Supply Implications of Late
Entry into Nursing
In the January/February 2007 issue of Health Affairs, Dr. David I. Auerbach and colleagues estimated that the
U.S. shortage of registered nurses (RNs) will increase
to 340,000 by the year 2020. Though this is significantly
less than earlier projections for a shortfall of 800,000
RNs which was made back in 2000, the study authors note
that the nursing shortage is still expected to increase
by three times the current rate over the next 13 years.
- Projected
Supply, Demand, and Shortages of Registered Nurses: 2000-2020
Released in July 2002, this HRSA report found that the
nursing shortage will deepen because increasing numbers
of nurses are retiring while too few are entering the
profession. Though 30 states experienced nursing shortages
in 2000, the report indicates that the crisis will intensify
with 44 states plus the District of Columbia expected
to have RN shortages by the year 2020.
- Nursing's
Agenda for the Future
Released in April 2002, Nursing's Agenda for the Future is a strategic action plan developed by more than 60 national
nursing organizations united around a shared vision for
the future of the profession. Strategies featured in the
plan address the complex, interrelated factors that have
created a growing shortage of nurses.
- Health
Care Metrics Survey
In January 2004, the Bernard Hodes Group released the
results of a recent poll of 151 health care recruiters
to determine turnover rates, cost-per-hire and vacancy
rates for a range of health care professionals, including
registered nurses. The survey found that the average
RN turnover rate was 15.5%, the vacancy rate was 13.9%
and the average RN cost-per-hire was $2,651, which is
approximately 11% higher than the average cost for recruiting
allied health workers.
- Who
Will Care for Each of Us? America's Coming Health Care
Crisis
Report on The Future of the Health Care Labor Force
in a Graying Society was prepared by the Nursing Institute
of the University of Illinois at Chicago, released in
May 2001.
- Nursing
Workforce: Emerging Nurse Shortages Due to Multiple
Factors [PDF]
GAO Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Health,
Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives,
released in July 2001.
(This requires Adobe
Acrobat to download.)
- The
Hospital Workforce Shortage: Immediate and Future
[PDF]
American Hospital Association June 2001 Trend Watch
(This requires Adobe
Acrobat to download.)
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