2. According to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics report, more than 2.9
million RNs will be employed in the
year 2012.
3. This is up 623,000 from
the nearly 2.3 million RNs
employed in 2002.
4. The total job openings, will be
more than 1.1 million.
5. This growth, coupled with current
trends of nurses retiring or leaving the
profession, could lead to a nursing
shortage of more than one million by
the end of this decade.
6. Are you starting to see the
big picture?
We’re potentially heading for a
nursing crisis.
12. Federal regulations require hospitals
that are certified to participate in
Medicare to "have adequate
numbers of licensed registered
nurses…to provide nursing care to all
patients as needed"