Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs
- An increase in funding for Title VIII programs to a minimum of $215 million in FY 2010 would put the federal investment in this health care capacity-building tool to only six hundred thousandths of the total estimated federal budget of $3.56 trillion.
- With an estimated 3.4 million licensed RNs and APRNs, nurses represent the largest occupation of all health care workers in the United States and provide patient care in virtually all locations in which health care is delivered.
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that employment of RNs is expected to grow 23 percent from 2006 to 2016, much faster than the average for all occupations. During this time, the system is projected to generate 587,000 new RN jobs in addition to the hundreds of thousands of job openings resulting from the need to replace experienced nurses who will leave the occupation.
- The Health Resources and Services Administration projects that, absent aggressive intervention, the RN workforce will fall 36 percent below requirements by the year 2020.
- The present nurse faculty staffing deficit is expected to intensify as the existing nurse educator workforce reaches retirement age. With 48 percent of nurse faculty over the age of 55, fully one-half of today?s nurse faculty workforce is expected to retire by 2015, while more than one in five (21 percent) expect to retire within the next five years.
- In 2006, the nurse faculty vacancies grew to 1,390 as the estimated number of budgeted, unfilled, full-time positions countrywide, representing a 7.9 percent vacancy rate in baccalaureate and higher degree programs. This was an increase of 32 percent since 2002, and a 5.6 percent vacancy rate in associate degree programs, which translated to a 10 percent rise in the same period. By 2007, just in one year, the unfilled full-time faculty positions nationwide rose to more than 1,900.
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