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RN Workforce Larger Than Experts Predicted

Published on Fri Aug 01, 2014

If your nurse hiring isn’t as squeezed as you expected lately, it may be because RNs are putting off retirement. A study by Rand Corp. published in Health Affairs found that “the size of the registered nurse (RN) workforce has surpassed forecasts from a decade ago, growing to 2.7 million in 2012 instead of peaking at 2.2 million,” according to [...]
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