From the Desk of the Chief Nurse
Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
Chief Nurse, Wolters Kluwer, Health Learning, Research & Practice
If you’re like me, you look for good news about the nursing profession. We finally received some good news from researchers tracking the registered nurse (RN) workforce! In a recent study by Auerbach et al. (2024), we are finally seeing an improvement in RN numbers and nurses under the age of 35 are leading that growth. In fact, nurses between the age of 35 to 49 years are 38% of practicing nurses today and will account for nearly half of the workforce by 2035 (Auerbach et al., 2024). This is welcome news for our workforce; however, the research revealed a shift away from nurses practicing in hospitals to ambulatory and community settings. Keep reading...