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A Snapshot of the Healthcare Workforce

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The Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University released an analysis of the healthcare workforce in June 2012, identifying numerous challenges and trends. The  “Healthcare” report supports popular opinion that the healthcare workforce will grow in the next eight years, with nursing as the fastest growing occupation; jobs for home health aides will also grow “despite offering the lowest wages.”

Key findings relating to the nurse workforce include:

  • More nurses are obtaining their BSN degree. “Between 1992 and 2008,  the proportion of staff nurses with a bachelor’s degree has increased from 31 percent to 40 percent.”  This emphasis on more education is crowding out minorities. “Compared to Whites and Asians, African-American and Hispanic nurses are more likely to have a diploma or associate’s degree.”
  • “Almost 80 percent of nurse practitioners and 61 percent of nurse anesthetists have a master’s degree.”
  • 22 percent of the healthcare workforce is foreign born. This includes many nurses from the Philippines, India and China, who must hold a bachelor’s degree to work in the U.S.

The report concludes, ” Healthcare will continue to grow fastest and provide some of the best-paying jobs in the nation – but the people in these jobs will increasingly require higher levels of education to enter the field and continuous certification once they are in.”

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