A Shortage of Registered Nurses: Is It on the Horizon or Already Here?

[摘要] The largest traditionally female-dominated health care occupation is registered nurses (RNs). It has been asserted that there is an ongoing nationwide shortage of RNs of various kinds and in various sectors of the health care services industry. Before the latest (mid-2002) release of supply-demand projections from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), it was estimated, based in whole or part on 1996 HRSA projections, that there would likely be a shortage of RNs in 2007 or shortly thereafter.This report first will analyze recent trends in the RN labor market and then examine HRSA’s new projections, which moved up the date of an RN shortage to 2000.

[发布日期] 2002-08-19 [发布机构] Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

[关键词] Medicine;Employment forecasting;Nurses - Labor supply;Economic policy;Labor