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Arizona's RN Shortage
The Healthcare Institute at the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) founded Heathworks, the Arizona Healthcare Workforce Data Center, to study the health professions in Arizona. The initial study, The Arizona RN Shortage: 2007 Results, sounds an alarm for the future of healthcare in our state. The study results reveal that Arizona will need approximately 49,000 additional RNs by 2017 to keep pace with the state's population growth as well as to replace retiring registered nurses (RNs) and those lost to normal attrition.
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