Nursing Workforce Publications and Reports Available on the Internet

The following publications and reports on the nursing workforce are available on the Internet. Please note that web site addresses change from time to time; if a web site address listed below does not work, try using just the first part of the address (through "com" or "org") and then search the site for the report.

This list will be updated periodically, so be sure to revisit this page.

Listing of a publication or report on this page does not imply endorsement of its content by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). To suggest a document that should be included on this page, please send an email to aone@aha.org.

• FHA Study on Nurse Staffing Issues in Florida, Florida Hospital Association, October 2002, http://www.fha.org
• Minnesota Work Force 2002, Minnesota Hospital and Healthcare Partnership (MHHP), October 2002, http://www.mhhp.com (click on "Work force" and "Tools You Can Use")
• Health Care at the Crossroads: Strategies for Addressing the Evolving Nursing Crisis, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, August 2002, http://www.jcaho.org/news+room/press+kits/nursing+shortage+press+kit.htm
• Projected Supply, Demand, and Shortages of Registered Nurses: 2000-2020, Health Resources and Services Administration, July 2002, http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/oldhealthworkforce/rnproject/default.htm
• Staff Nurse Satisfaction, Patient Loads, and Short Staffing Effects in North Carolina, North Carolina Center for Nursing, July 2002, http://www.nursenc.org/research/supply.htm
• Promoting Health Care Workplace Excellence, Georgia Department of Community Health's Health Care Workforce Policy Advisory Committee, July 2002, http://www3.state.ga.us/departments/dch/v4/top/shared/con_dhp/dhp_publications/wpac_2002.pdf
• Investing in Your Workforce: Overcoming the Financial Impact of Labor Shortages, Healthcare Financial Management Association, June 2002, http://www.hfma.org/workforce
• 2002 Survey of Hospital Nurse Staffing Issues in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Hospital Association and Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives, June 2002, http://www.massone.org
• Supply and Distribution of Registered Nurses in Canada, 2001 Report, Canadian Institute for Health Information, June 2002, http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=AR20_2001sum_e
• The Nursing Shortage: Can Technology Help?, California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) and First Consulting Group (FCG), June 2002, http://www.chcf.org
• New Hampshire Nursing Workforce Initiative Final Report, Foundation for Healthy Communities, May 2002, http://www.healthynh.com/
• Health Care’s Human Crisis: The American Nursing Shortage, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2002, http://www.rwjf.org/publications/other.jsp
• Pennsylvania Nurses: Meeting the Demand for Nursing Care in the 21^st Century: 2002 Update, May 2002, http://www.haponline.org/downloads/PANurses2001update.pdf
• North Carolina Trends in Nursing 1982-2000: Employment Characteristics, North Carolina Center for Nursing, May 2002, http://www.nurseNC.org
• NurseWeek/American Organization of Nurse Executives National Survey of Registered Nurses, NurseWeek and AONE, April 2002, http://www.nurseweek.com/survey/
• Acute Care Hospital Survey of RN Vacancy and Turnover Rates in 2000, American Organization of Nurse Executives, February 2002, http://www.aone.org
• The Healthcare Workforce Shortage and Its Implications for America’s Hospitals, First Consulting Group and American Hospital Association, January 2002, http://www.hospitalconnect.com/aha/key_issues/workforce/resources/Content/FcgWorkforceReport.pdf
• Creating High-Quality Health Care Workplaces, Canadian Policy Research Networks, January 2002, http://www.chsrf.ca/docs/finalrpts/index_e.shtml#comres
• Florida’s Nursing Shortage: It Is Here and It Is Getting Worse, Florida Hospital Association, November 2001, http://www.fha.org
• Who Will Care For You? Washington Hospitals Face a Personnel Crisis, Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) and the Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts (AWPHD), October 2001, http://www.wsha.org
• Virginia’s Nursing Education Programs: Educating Registered Nurses (RN) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), The Virginia Partnership for Nursing and Virginia Commonwealth University, October 2001, http://legis.state.va.us/jchc/nurs1010bri.pdf
• Maine’s Healthcare Workforce: A Special Report Examining the Implications of a Growing Labor Shortage on Access to Hospital Care, Maine Hospital Association, September 2001, http://www.themha.org
• The Health Care Workforce in Ten States: Education, Practice and Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, September 2001, http://www.ask.hrsa.gov
• Nursing Workforce: Emerging Nurse Shortages Due to Multiple Factors, General Accounting Office Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, July 2001, http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Government/GAO%20Report.pdf
• Commitment and Care: The Benefits of a Healthy Workplace For Nurses, Their Patients and the System, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, June 2001, http://www.chsrf.ca/docs/finalrpts/index_e.shtml#comres
• Code Blue: Workforce in Crisis, Health Care Workforce Technical Advisory Committee, State of Georgia Health Strategies Council, May 2001, http://www3.state.ga.us/departments/dch/v4/top/shared/con_dhp/dhp_publications/healthcare_workforce_final.pdf
• Who Will Care for Each of Us: America’s Coming Health Care Crisis, Nursing Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, May 2001, http://www.uic.edu/nursing/nursinginstitute/policy/index.htm
• Pennsylvania Nurses: Meeting the Demand for Nursing Care in the 21st Century, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, April 2001, http://www.haponline.org/communications/news/releases/details.asp?ID=B5QXh4MZD9H7T2hSd1ea