Utilizing Federal Data Sources to Support Nursing Workforce Analysis

Citation: Kang, B, Fernando T, Pang J, Armstrong D, Shirey P. Utilizing Federal Data to Support Nursing Workforce AnalysisPolicy Polit Nurs Pract. 2024. Published online October 22, 2024. doi:10.1177/15271544241286078

Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15271544241286078

In this article, the researchers review 18 federal data sources pertinent to nursing workforce analysis. They categorize the datasets by their associated federal agency, describe each source, discuss their applicability to nursing workforce studies, present examples of past studies that employed these datasets, and highlight their limitations. Their aim is to help researchers, policymakers, and healthcare administrators efficiently locate and leverage relevant data for their analysis.