Projecting the Future Registered Nurse Workforce After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health care delivery systems rely on a well-prepared and adequately sized registered nurse (RN) workforce. The US RN workforce decreased by more than 100 000 in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic-a far greater single-year drop than observed over the past 4 decades. The implication for the longer-term growth of the RN workforce is unknown.

Objective

To describe recent trends in RN employment through 2023 and forecast the growth of the RN workforce through 2035.

Design, setting, and participants

Descriptive analysis of recent trends since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in RN employment using data from the US Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey and including employed RNs aged 23 to 69 years from 1982 through 2023, and retrospective cohort analysi

SUBMITTER: Auerbach DI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10873770 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature