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Emergency Care Workforce Report Issued
Last Updated: 11/27/2006
A new report provides estimates of the total number of workers in the emergency medical care workforce, looking at various types of providers in both urban and rural settings. According to the report, there were roughly 95,000 registered nurses and 4,500 advanced practice nurses working in emergency departments nationwide in 2000; there were 25,500 self-identified emergency medicine physicians in the U.S. in 2002, although not all worked in EDs.
Read the
full report
(pdf) from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the State University of New York in Albany.
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