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On July 2, 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the healthcare sector of the economy is continuing to grow, despite significant job losses in nearly all major industries. Hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other ambulatory care settings added 21,000 new jobs in June 2009, a month when 467,000 jobs were eliminated across the country. As the largest segment of the healthcare workforce, RNs likely will be recruited to fill many of these new positions. In September 2009, the BLS confirmed that 544,000 jobs have been added in the healthcare sector since the recession began.
In the November 26, 2008 Journal of the American Medical Association, workforce analyst
Dr. Peter Buerhaus stated: “Over the next 20 years, the average age of the RN will increase and the size of the workforce will plateau as large numbers of RNs retire. Because demand for RNs is expected to increase during this time, a large and prolonged shortage of nurses is expected to hit the US in the latter half of the next decade.”
Nursing school enrollment is not growing fast enough to meet the projected demand for RNs.
Though AACN reported a 2.2% enrollment increase in entry-level baccalaureate programs in nursing in 2008, this increase is not sufficient to meet the projected demand for nurses. HRSA officials state that “to meet the projected growth in demand for RN services, the U.S. must graduate approximately 90 percent more nurses from US nursing programs.”
According to the latest The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, the total RN population has increased at every 4-year interval in which the survey has been taken since 1980. Although the total RN population increased from 2,696,540 in 2000 to 2,909,357 in 2004, this increase (7.9%) was comparatively low considering growth between earlier report intervals (i.e. the RN population grew 14.2% between 1992 and 1996). In 2004, an estimated 83.2% of RNs were employed in nursing.
With the average age of RNs projected to 44.5 years by 2012, nurses in their 50s are expected to become the largest segment of the nursing workforce, accounting for almost one quarter of the RN population. www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763756840
According to the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses released in February 2007 by the federal Division of Nursing, the average age of the RN population in March 2004 was 46.8 years of age, up from 45.2 in 2000. The RN population under the age of 30 dropped from 9.0% of the nursing population in 2000 to 8.0% in 2004.
Just a few tid bits about our profession, Chewsie. One source i could possibly discount, maybe even two. But all these sources are saying the same thing. There are not enough working RNs to take care of the business at hand.
And while schools may be "pumping" out students, you must also look at the passing rates...
The overall average nationwide pass rate for people taking the the NCLEX RN exam for the first time in 2009 was 88.42 percent, according to the NSCBN. The average nationwide pass rate for first time test takers for the NCLEX PN exam was 85.72 percent. For repeat testers educated in the United States, the percentages were 55.87 for RN and 41.4 percent for LPN candidates.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1951816
The source for this information is on a pdf file at the bottom of the answer.
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