Health Affairs
September/October 2002, Vol. 21, No. 5
This edition of Health Affairs focuses on health workforce issues surrounding various health professions including nursing, pharmacy, medicine and dentistry.
http://www.healthaffairs.org/
Projected Supply, Demand and Shortages of Registered Nurses: 2000-2020
USDHHS, HRSA, Bureau of Health Professions
This report provides supply and demand projections of registered nurses for the period 2000 through 2020. The report includes projections of RN supply and demand, both national and State-specific, for the years 2000 through 2020; identification and discussion of the driving forces and trends underlying the projected supply and projected demand; and relevant charts, maps and tables.
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/rnproject/default.htm
The Registered Nurse Population, March 2000: Findings from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses
This Seventh National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses was conducted in 2000 and published February 22, 2002. It is the nation's most extensive and comprehensive source of statistics on all those with current licenses to practice in the United States, whether or not they are employed in nursing.
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/rnsurvey/default.htm
Health Affairs
January/February 2002, Vol. 21, No. 1
This edition of Health Affairs includes 8 articles about the physician workforce.
http://www.healthaffairs.org/
HRSA State Health Workforce Profile: Oregon
Data on the supply, demand, distribution, education and use of physicians, nurses, dentists and 20 other health professionals in Oregon. Released by the Health Rresources and Services Administration on December 11, 2000.
ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/bhpr/workforceprofiles/OR.pdf
"Health Workforce: Ensuring Adequate Supply and Distribution Remains Challenging"
United States General Accounting Office, August, 2001
Statement of Janet Heinrich, Director, Health Care-Public Health Issues
Transcript of Heinrich's testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives. Discussion of the adequacy of the health care workforce, emerging shortages, and lessons learned from the National Health Service Corps program.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d011042t.pdf
"Uncoordinated Growth of the Primary Care Workforce"
The Robert Graham Center, February 27, 2001
Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care
Family physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are distinctly different in their clinical training, yet they function interdependently. Together, they represent a significant proportion of the primary care workforce. Training capacity for these three professions has increased rapidly over the past decade, but almost no collaborative workforce planning has occurred.
http://www.aafppolicy.org/x163.xml
"Addressing the Question of Physician Supply in America"
by Jennifer Proctor
Association of American Medical Colleges, July 2001
Should medical school class size be expanded or contracted? Experts disagree on whether the physician work force will be sufficient or more than adequate to meet future health care demands.
http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/july01/physiciansupply.htm
"Oregon's Nursing Shortage: A Public Health Crisis in the Making"
Issue Brief No. 1, April 2001
Northwest Health Foundation
A study commissioned by the Northwest Health Foundation to examine the current nursing workforce in Oregon and develop a framework for discussion of potential initiatives that could have a substantial impact on the shortage.
http://www.nwhf.org/announce.htm
"Nursing Workforce: Emerging Nurse Shortages Due to Multiple Factors"
United States General Accounting Office, July 2001
Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives
A GAO report on whether there is evidence of a current nursing shortage, the reasons for current nurse recruitment and retention problems, and what is known about the projected future supply of and demand for nurses.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01944.pdf
"Health Care Special Report: Health Care Staffing Shortage"
Fitch Information Incorporated, June, 2001
Fitch Information Incorporated, a bond rating agency, released a special report on health care staffing shortages. The report notes "that rising personnel expense, mainly due to the growing shortage of nurses, is the most significant long-term problem affecting hospitals and threatens to keep operating margins in check for the foreseeable future. The aging U.S. population, coupled with a decreasing supply of nurses, has led to a shortage of nurses in many markets and will soon lead to a national shortage...Long-term solutions to the shortage problem focus on changing the fundamental nature of the job and improving retention of current employees." Fitch concludes the report with quantitative measures they developed to monitor the situation.
Copies of the report can be obtained by calling 1-800-853-4824, x 216.
"Policy Responses to an Aging Registered Nurse Workforce"
by Peter Buerhaus, Douglas Staiger, and David Auerbach
Nursing Economic$, November-December 2000, Vol. 18, No. 6
In this final article of a four-part series, the authors summarize their earlier findings and offer some potential strategies for dealing with an expected large decrease in the supply of registered nurses and continued aging of the registered nurse workforce.
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/nursing/research/images/peter/policyresponses.pdf
"Implications of an Aging Registered Nurse Workforce"
by Peter Buerhaus, Douglas Staiger, and David Auerbach
JAMA, June 14, 2000, Vol. 283, No. 22
The average age of registered nurses (RNs), the largest group of health care professionals in the United States, increased substantially from 1983 to 1998. No empirically based analysis of the causes and implications of this aging workforce exists. The authors set out to identify and assess key sources of changes in the age distribution and total supply of RNs and to project the future age distribution and total RN workforce up to the year 2020.
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/nursing/research/images/peter/jama.pdf
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