The Future of the Nursing Workforce: National- & State-Level Projections, 2012-2025

These U.S. Workforce projections present the national supply of and demand for Nursing Workforce using HRSA’s Health Workforce Simulation Model. The Model assumes that demand equals supply in the base year. Nurses make up the single largest health profession in the U.S. They perform a variety of patient care duties and are critical to the delivery of health care services across a wide array of settings, including ambulatory care clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, public health facilities, hospice programs, and home health agencies. Distinctions are made among different types of nurses according to their education, role, and the . . .