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Nurse shortages by the numbers: 8 stats to know
By Patsy Newitt
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SCs and hospitals nationwide are
feeling the effects of severe nurse
shortages, exacerbated by a recent
COVID-19 spike.
Eight notes on the shortages:
1. A Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Med-
icine formula projects a shortage of 510,394
registered nurses nationwide by 2030.
2. Nurse turnover rates rose to about 22
percent in 2021, up from an annual rate of
about 18 percent in 2019, according to e
Wall Street Journal.
3. By 2030, estimates suggest California
will face the largest nursing shortage of any
state. e federal Bureau of Health Work-
force projects the state will have a deficit of
44,500 nurses.
4. In Texas, there are 23,000 more unfilled
RN positions than there are nurses looking to
fill them, according to a labor analysis by the
Texas Workforce Commission cited by e
Texas Tribune in August.
5. Since February 2020, hospital employment
has declined by nearly 94,000, including
a decrease of more than 8,000 between
August 2021 and September 2021, accord-
ing to research nonprofit Altarum's analy-
sis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data
through September.
6. Between 2019 and 2020, there was
an increase in job vacancies for nursing
personnel of up to 30 percent, according to
an analysis of American Hospital Associa-
tion survey data.
7. Rural communities absorb greater impacts
of the nursing shortage than metropolitan ar-
eas. Only 16 percent of RNs live in rural areas,
where they serve over 52 million Americans
who reside there, according to data cited by
the University of St. Augustine (Fla.).
8. As of February 2021, registered nurs-
ing was the fih most in-demand job in
the American workforce, according to
LinkedIn data cited by the University of
St. Augustine. n
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