New signs of a strengthening U.S. nurse labor market?

Health Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2004, Pages

  Buerhaus, Peter I ^a   Staiger, Douglas O ^b,c   Auerbach, David I ^d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSE; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

EID: 17044365521     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.W4.526     Document Type: Article

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5. To be more specific, the total workforce grew 4.3 percent in 2002 and 5.7 percent in 2003, according to our FTE-based calculations. Using hours instead, we find growth of 4.1 percent in 2002 and 6.0 percent in 2003. By age group, it is true that older RNs appear to be working fewer hours. Thus, growth among older RNs is slightly lower in 2002 and 2003 when using hours rather than FTEs, and the extraordinary growth among the young RNs that we report in 2003 is even greater using hours: 19.7 percent compared with 18.1 percent using FTEs.
6. Because of revisions made by the CPS in 2003 involving occupation codes, estimates of RN employment in 2002 differ slightly from those reported in our earlier work (Buerhaus et al., "Is the Current Shortage of Hospital Nurses Ending?"). The new coding, based on the Standard Occupational Codes used in the 2000 Census, resulted in approximately 5 percent of those identifying as RNs under the previous coding not identifying as RNs under the new coding.
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