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New AACN Data Show the Impact of the Economy on the Nurse Faculty Shortage
Friday, September 18, 2009
New data collected by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
show that the downturn in the economy may be impacting the nurse faculty
shortage by lowering the national vacancy rate. Based on data received from 554
schools of nursing in the U.S. with baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs
(70.2% response rate), the nurse faculty vacancy rate in 2009 was 6.6%, down
from 7.6% in 2008. Many schools point to changes in faculty retirement patterns
and hiring freezes at academic institutions as reasons for this presumably
short-term easing of the shortage.
“Though AACN is pleased to see a lower faculty vacancy rate this year, we fully
expect the shortage of nurse educators to re-emerge when the U.S. economy
rallies and faculty retirement patterns resume,” said AACN President Fay Raines.
“Over the next 15 years, workforce analysts project that the nation`s nursing
shortage will grow twice as large as any shortage experienced in this country
since the mid-1960s, and this will no doubt impact the supply of nurse faculty.”
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