Montana State University To Lead Study Examining COVID-19's Effect on U.S. Nursing Workforce
Montana State University (MSU) has been selected to lead a two-year study about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses, the largest group of U.S. health care workers, focusing on changes in employment, earnings and the supply of nurses.
The study will research whether employment in certain settings grew during the pandemic, assess regional differences and seek to better understand if the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on earnings and employment by race, ethnicity, gender and age. The researchers will also forecast the number of registered nurses through 2030. The report will be completed by 2022, but throughout the project, key results will be shared in quarterly reports and peer-reviewed journals, as well as through webinars and interactions with government workforce organizations, professional associations, researchers and others.
Peter Buerhaus, MSU College of Nursing professor and MSU Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies director, is leading the study, along with co-researchers Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College, and David Auerbach, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. The study is being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Johnson & Johnson Foundation in partnership with the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation and UnitedHealth Group.
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