Reports and Information on the Nursing Shortage

The Global Shortage of Registered Nurses: An Overview of Issues and Actions (pdf 419 kb), International Council of Nurses (2004).

Comprehensive warehouse of reports and information on the nursing shortage. (2002). American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. (August 2002). Health Care at the Crossroads: Strategies for Addressing the Evolving Nursing Crisis. (pdf file)

Kimball, Bobbi & O'Neill, Edward. (May 2002). Health Care's Human Crisis: The American Nursing Shortage report funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (pdf) Interview with the authors.

Differences in projected supply and demand of registered nurses through
2020.

Nursing Shortage Fact Sheet. (2002). American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Nursing FACULTY Shortage Fact Sheet. (2002). American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Facts on the Nursing Shortage from Sigma Theta Tau International.

Spratley, E., Johnson, A., Sochalski, J., Fritz, M. & Spencer, W. (March 2000). Findings from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Service Administration; Bureau of Health Professions; Division of Nursing.

Charts and Preliminary Findings from the Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. (February 2001). US Department of Health and Human Services; Health Resources and Services Administration; Bureau of Health Professions.

Kalisch, P. A. & Kalisch, B. J. (1980). The nurse shortage, the president, and the congress. Nursing Forum, 19 (2), 138-164.

Kalisch, B. J. & Kalisch, P. A. (1977). An analysis of the sources of physician-nurse conflict. The Journal of Nursing Administration. Jan, 7 (1), 50-57.

Kalisch, B. J. & Kalisch, P. A. (1973). Congress copes with the nurse shortage, 1941-1971: dynamics of congressional nurse education policy formulation. Nursing Research Conference, (9), 317-377.