1. Joanne Spetz, Timothy Bates, Renae Waneka, Dennis Keane, Lela Chu, Jessica Lin
RN Surveys Policies & Legislation
• 2002 – Governor Gray Davis’s
Forecasts of the 2001 Forecast Nurse Workforce Initiative
(NWI) to address the shortage
Recommendations to expand of nurses in California
RN Surveys that evaluate change and RN satisfaction
Biennial stratified random sample including: Registered Nurse Workforce and redefine nursing profession,
including: • 2005 – Gov. Schwarzenegger’s
• Demographics Nurse Education Initiative
• Salary in California • Increase funding for new RN
education programs and
continues education expansion
• Job satisfaction
expanding existing programs • Private grants to Schools
• Future plans (2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011) • HRSA Grants
Schools Surveys • Increased in state funding to
community colleges
2011 Forecast
Annual survey of CA nursing programs: Recent findings and trends: Projected Shortage of Registered Nurses (FTEs) in California
• Graduates • Nursing school enrollments
400,000
• Funding have more than doubled in the
350,000
• Attrition and success of students
300,000
past decade 250,000
• Fewer RNs retiring due to the 200,000
economic recession
Employer Surveys
150,000
• Less demand for newly- 100,000
graduated RNs 50,000
Public Webpage • Surplus not expected to
-
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030
Supply Forecast Hours-per-patient-day-based Demand Forecast Budgeted Position-based Demand Forecast
continue as nurses retire
• The Affordable Care Act (ACA)
will insure 30 million
Annual survey of CA nurse employers: additional Americans
• Current employment numbers
• Vacancies
• Turnover
• New graduate hiring
Funders Partners
• Center for the Health Professions (CHP), UC San Francisco
• California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN)
• Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC)
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• California Institute for Nursing & Health Care (CINHC)