Nurse Numbers Tell the Tale

New RWJF fact sheet and slideshow put recent data on nursing workforce in meaningful context.

Published: 7/23/2010

A new fact sheet and accompanying slideshow from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers a wealth of hard data on the nursing workforce—how many nurses are at work today, what their educational backgrounds are, how diverse the nursing population is, what the employment trends are, how big the nursing gap will be in a few years, and more.

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