The Nursing Workforce: Trends and Challenges
Author: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP
Presentation to NCGA Joint Legislative Workforce Development System Reform Oversight Committee
March 1, 2016
Presentation Overview:
- Basic statistics on licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives
- Education
- Supply
- Distribution
- Challenges facing NC’s nursing workforce
- Maldistribution by geography and setting
- Lack of diversity
- The shift to the BSN as entry degree
- Preparing nurses for roles in a transformed health care system