-Officials with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released projections that the nation's nursing shortage would grow to more than one million nurses by the year 2020.
-Analysts show that all 50 states will experience a shortage of nurses to varying degrees by the year 2015.
-55% of surveyed nurses reported their intention to retire between 2011 and 2020. The majority of those surveyed were nurse managers
-Government analysts project that more than 703,000 new RN positions will be created through 2014, which will account for two-fifths of all new jobs in the health care sector.
-The average age of the RN is climbing
-The average age of the RN population in March 2004 was 46.8 years of age, up from 45.2 in 2000. The RN population under the age of 30 dropped from 9.0% of the nursing population in 2000 to 8.0% in 2004
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