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Nursing Career Statistics
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- 329 master's and post-master's programs were offered for nurse practitioners, 218 master's and post-master's programs for clinical nurse specialists, 92 programs for nurse anesthetists, and 45 programs for nurse midwives in 2004 in the US.
- 417 nursing schools offered master's degrees, 93 offered doctoral degrees, and 46 offered accelerated BSN-to-doctoral programs in 2004.
- About 3 of 5 nursing jobs are in hospitals.
- Linda Richards earned the first nursing diploma in this US, back in 1873.
- Norway, Finland, Ireland, Belarus, and Monaco have the highest ratios of nurses per capita in the world.
- One out of four registered nurses is a part time employee.
- One-year training programs are offered at 1,200 state-approved nursing schools.
- Registered nurses are expected to create the second largest number of new jobs among all occupations through 2014.
- Registered nurses comprise the largest health occupation and held about 2.4 million positions in 2004.
- The three typical educational paths to a registered nursing career are a bachelor's degree, an associate degree, and a diploma from an approved nursing program.
- There are more nurses than any other employees in the entire health profession.
- The nursing shortage is expected to hit 20% by 2015, and by 2020, more than 800,000 nursing positions will be open.
- Only five states are expected to not feel the nursing shortage by 2020.
- Between 1980 and 2000, the number of RNs under the age of 30 fell by more than 25%.
- Signing bonuses have topped $14,000 for experienced nurses.
- 40% of RNs will be over age 50 by 2010.
- Studies show that if hospitals employed the recommended number of RNs, thousands of additional lives could be saved each year.
- Enrollment in BSN programs increased 13% from 2004 to 2005.
- Americans undergoing routine surgery face a 31% greater risk of death if being treated in a hospital with a nursing shortage.
- Just 4% of Americans believe the nursing shortage does not affect health care as a whole.
- A critical shortage of nursing faculty meant that in 2005, more than 147,000 prospective nursing students were not admitted to nursing colleges.
- Average earnings for nurses increased by nearly 13% between 2000 and 2004.
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