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  • 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.

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