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Nurses Who Do Not Nurse: Factors That Predict Non-Nursing Work in the U.S. Registered Nursing Labor Market
07-10-10
Registered nurses (RNs) who work outside of nursing have seldom been examined. This aim of this study was to compare the 122,178 (4%) of RNs who are employed outside of nursing to those who work in nursing jobs in terms of sociodemographic, market, and political variables to determine if these...
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Nurses Who Do Not Nurse: Factors that Predict Non-Nursing Work in the U.S. Registered Nursing Labor Market
07-01-10
Registered nurses (RNs) who work outside of nursing have seldom been examined. This aim of this study was to compare the 122,178 (4%) of RNs who are employed outside of nursing to those who work in nursing jobs in terms of sociodemographic, market, and political variables to determine if these...
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Directory of Nursing Schools and Programs
06-10-10
Web directory of US nursing schools and programs (7,700+ programs, from 2,300+ schools).
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Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner Staffing Patterns in California's Licensed Community Clinics: 2005 - 2008
06-01-10
Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) play a critical role in the delivery of primary care in California’s licensed community clinics. Between 2005 and 2008, however, clinics increasingly relied on PAs and NPs as care providers. The use of PAs increased more than the use of NPs....
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Payment Regulations for Advanced Practice Nurses: Implications for Primary Care
05-01-10
The shortage of primary care providers (PCPs) in the United States may be worsened with health reform if more individuals receive health insurance coverage. Previous research suggests that Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) can provide as high quality care and achieve the same health...
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Implications of the California Nurse Staffing Mandate for Other States
05-01-10
Objectives To determine whether nurse staffing in California hospitals, where state-mandated minimum nurse-to-patient ratios are in effect, differs from two states without legislation and whether those differences are associated with nurse and patient outcomes.
Data Sources Primary survey data from...
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2008-2009 Annual School Report: Data Summary and Historical Trend Analysis
03-24-10
Each year, the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) requires all pre-licensure registered nursing programs in California to complete a survey detailing statistics of their programs, students and faculty. The survey collects data from August 1 through July 31 of the following year....
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Recent Findings about California’s RN Workforce
02-10-10
The 2008 Survey of Registered Nurses gathered data on the licensed nursing workforce in California, including race/ethnicity, education, hours worked, and job satisfaction. This presentation shares findings from this survey as well as the 2009 Forecasts of the Registered Nursing Workforce in...
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Staffing Patterns in California’s Licensed Community Clinics: Registered Nurses, Licensed Vocational Nurses, and Medical Assistants
02-01-10
This issue brief describes utilization of Registered Nurses (RN), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN), and medical assistants (MA) over the period 2005-2008. We found that the proportion of clinic sites reporting utilization of RNs and LVNs generally did not change during this period, while use of...
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Improving Access to Health Care in California: Testing New Roles for Providers
12-01-09
This issue brief examines the State of California’s Health Workforce Pilot Projects Program, which promotes demonstrations to test new practice models for improved care delivery by: 1) granting temporary legal waivers for providers to perform additional duties; 2) creating new provider categories;...
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How Have Mandated Nurse Staffing Ratios Impacted Hospitals? Perspectives from California Hospital Leaders
10-01-09
In 2004, California became the first state to implement minimum-nurse-staffing ratios in acute care hospitals. We examined the wages of registered nurses (RNs) before and after the legislation was enacted. Using four data sets — the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, the Current...
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Forecasts of the Registered Nurse Workforce in California, 2009
09-29-09
This report presents supply and demand forecasts for the Registered Nurse (RN) workforce in California from 2009 through 2030. These forecasts are based on data from the 2008 California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) Survey of Registered Nurses, the US Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr) 2004...
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Evaluation of the Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) and the Centralized Faculty Resource Center (CFRC)
08-01-09
Nursing schools have reported a lack of clinical placement sites and insufficient numbers of qualified nursing faculty as two of the prominent barriers to expansion of their nursing programs. The Centralized Clinical Placement System (CCPS) and the Centralized Faculty Resource Center (CFRC) are two...
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Do Wages Matter? A Backward Bend in the 2004 California RN Labor Supply
08-01-09
Using data from the 2004 California Board of Registered Nursing Survey, a two-stage least-square equation was estimated to examine the effect of wages on hours worked by female registered nurses. Wages were found to have a nonlinear effect on hours worked, with a backward bending supply curve....
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California Board of Registered Nursing 2008 Survey of Registered Nurses
07-06-09
The biennial California Survey of Registered Nurses provides information about the demographics, education, and employment of registered nurses in the state.
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2008 Survey of Registered Nurses
06-23-09
The 2008 Survey of California Registered Nurses is the sixth in a series of surveys designed to describe licensed nurses in California and to examine changes over time. Other studies were completed in 1990, 1993, 1997, 2004, and 2006. Like the 2004 & 2006 surveys, the 2008 survey targeted two...
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Forecasting the Nursing Shortage in California (2009)
06-12-09
Forecasting the supply and demand of the nursing workforce is crucial to understanding the short and long term needs for nurses in California and for identifying strategies for addressing future shortages. This presentation provides data for the 2009 forecast of the nursing workforce in California.
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Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in Specialty Care: Six Practices Make It Work
06-01-09
Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) are increasingly being incorporated into outpatient specialty practices to improve access to care and reduce wait times. PAs and NPs also bolster the quality and financial profitability of specialty practices by allowing physicians to focus...
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Update on California’s Nursing Workforce (Sacramento, CA)
03-24-09
While the number of RN programs as well as graduation numbers have increased, and some regions do not currently in this recession experience a shortage, the overall projected shortage of nurses still looms in the future. Detailed data is presented to the California Healthcare Workforce Policy...
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The Impact of Hospital Unions on Nurse Wages in the United States (Honolulu, HI)
03-01-09
Research shows that unions have some effect on nurse wages, for example a modest effect on the wage structure by eliminating race gaps on one hand, but giving lower premiums for experience.
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2007-2008 Annual School Regional Reports
03-01-09
Each year, the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) requires all pre-licensure registered nursing programs in California to complete a survey detailing statistics of their programs, students and faculty. Information gathered from these surveys is compiled into a database and used to analyze...
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California’s Minimum-Nurse-Staffing Legislation and Nurses’ Wages
02-10-09
In 2004, California became the first state to implement minimum-nurse-staffing ratios in acute care hospitals. We examined the wages of registered nurses (RNs) before and after the legislation was enacted. Using four data sets—the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, the Current Population...
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The Effects of Information Technology on Nurses and Patients in the VHA (Stanford, CA)
02-01-09
This presentation takes a closer look at the impact of the CPRS and BCMA implementation in the VA on nurses and care quality, as this qualitative and quantitative study finds that overall quality neither increased nor decreased and nurse staffing was not affected.
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Assessing the Impact of California’s Nurse Staffing Ratios on Hospitals and Patient Care
02-01-09
In 2004, California began requiring that acute-care hospitals maintain certain minimum ratios between nurses and patients, making it the first state in the nation to do so. However, little is known about what effects the staffing ratios have had, either on the hospitals themselves or the quality of...
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2007-2008 Annual School Report: Data Summary and Historical Trend Analysis
02-01-09
Each year, the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) requires all pre-licensure registered nursing programs in California to complete a survey detailing statistics of their programs, students and faculty. The survey collects data from August 1 through July 31 of the following year....
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The Movement of Registered Nurses into and out of California
11-14-08
The California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) is interested in knowing more about the movement of nurses into and out of California and commissioned the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to research behaviors of these nurses. Every month during the six-month study period, the BRN...
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How Many Nurses Per Patient? Measurements of Nurse Staffing in Health Services Research
10-01-08
Objective: To compare alternative measures of nurse staffing and assess the relative strengths and limitations of each measure.
Data Sources/Study Setting: Primary and secondary data from 2000 and 2002 on hospital nurse staffing from the American Hospital Association, California Office of Statewide...
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Job and Industry Turnover for Registered and Licensed Vocational Nurses
09-01-08
Most studies of nurse turnover focus on job turnover, which could reflect nurse advancement and thus not be detrimental to the workforce. The authors discuss findings from a study that involved 2 cohorts of graduates from registered nursing and licensed vocational nursing community college programs...
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Diversity in California’s Health Professions: Registered Nursing
09-01-08
Concern over the lack of diversity in California’s RN population has been raised by educators, nursing leadership, private foundations, and policy makers. This issue brief is one in a series of briefs presenting a profile of California’s current and projected population, selected health professions...
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Nurses Working Outside of Nursing: Societal Trend or Workplace Crisis?
08-01-08
The phenomenon of career inactivity in professional nursing has been historically portrayed in the literature as a major cause of disequilibrium in the registered nurse labor market. However, there remains a general lack of understanding of the diverse forces that shape the inactive nurse pool and...