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EXHIBIT 1 Real Wage Growth For Registered Nurses (RNs) And Growth In RN Graduations, 1984–1999
SOURCES: Wages are from the Current Population Survey, Monthly Outgoing Rotation Groups. Number of graduates is from the National League for Nursing. The data from 1984 through 1995 were published in Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, United States Health Workforce Personnel Factbook, 2003, www.bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/factbook.htm (22 September 2003). Data for 1996–97 and 1997–98 are unofficial from the National League for Nursing and were published in L. Levine, A Shortage of Registered Nurses: Is It on the Horizon or Already Here? (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 18 May 2001).
NOTE: Wages are measured in 1999 inflation-adjusted dollars.
