Nurses

AONL and Joslin Marketing partnered to conduct a longitudinal study on the impact of COVID-19 on nursing leadership from July 2020 to February 2021.
The need for nursing to move to one national licensure model is critical for each state’s ability to provide healthcare that Americans expect and deserve. 
The American Nurses Foundation surveyed 22,000 nurses across the nation to learn about pressing topics in the profession
The American Nurses Association joined AONL and other nursing and health care organizations to launch COVID Vaccine Facts for Nurses, a vaccine education campaign.
On March 5, Guam became the first U.S. territory to enact the Nurse Licensure Compact.
To address the lack of racial and ethnic diversity on their executive nursing leadership team, researchers developed and implemented a pilot mentorship initiative
To better understand what can be done to reduce the barriers diverse leaders face in obtaining, maintaining and advancing their leadership careers, researchers conducted
The International Centre on Nurse Migration (ICNM) estimates 10.6 million new nurses will be needed to both address the existing nurse shortage and replace the 4.7 million nurses
From 2002 to 2009 the nursing profession has grown by 62% (Macwilliams, 2013). Bowman (2020) reported that from 1960 to 2020 men in nursing increased from 2% to 13% of all U.S. nurses. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports a need for 3.19 million nurses by 2024.
According to the National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, more than 5 million RNs and LPNs are in the United States. That is significantly more than the 1 million licensed physicians. By contrast, 11 physicians but only 3 nurses were elected to the current U.S. Congress.