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- The U.S. nursing shortage is projected to grow to 260,000 registered nurses by 2025 (Buerhaus et al, Health Affairs (published on-line 12 June 2009).
- According to AACN's 2008-2009 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing Report, the nurse faculty vacancy among baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs in the U.S. is 6.6%.
- AACN also reported that in 2008, 49,948 qualified applicants were turned away from baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs; two-thirds of respondent nursing schools pointed to faculty shortages as the reason.
- In that same year, 5,902 qualified applicants were turned away from master's programs and 1,002 from doctoral programs, primarily due to faculty shortage (AACN).
- According to the NLN 2009 Annual Survey of Nursing Programs , nearly one quarter (23.4 percent) of US nursing programs of all types reported receiving more qualified applications than could be accepted in 2008. Among prelicensure programs, there was considerably more unmet demand for admissions.
- Among schools that did not accept all qualified applicants, prelicensure programs reported that lack of clinical placement settings were the biggest impediment to admitting more students. Postlicensure programs were more likely to cite a shortage of faculty as the main obstacle to expansion (NLN 2009 Survey).
- 43.4% of nursing school faculty are doctorally prepared (AACN’s Special Survey on Vacant Faculty Positions, August 2009).
- In 2008, enrollment in research-focused doctoral nursing programs was up by only 0.1% -- or 3 students – from the 2007-2008 academic year (AACN 2008-2009 Nursing Report).
- Findings from AACN’s Report on 2008-2009 Salaries of Instructional and Administrative Nursing Faculty in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing indicate that the average age of doctorally prepared faculty by rank was 59.1 years for professors, 56.1 years for associate professors, and 51.7 years for assistant professors.
- The average age of nurse faculty at retirement is 62.5 years. The mean age of junior faculty who began teaching in 2007 was 47.4 years for assistant professors and 46.7 years for instructors. (AACN’s Salary Report).

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