title: Through the looking glass: the labor market for registered nurses in the 21st century.
abstract: From the 1950s through the early 1990s, nurses enjoyed employment security. Now supply outstrips demand and nursing student enrollments are declining. What are the forces at work and how can the rules of the marketplace be used to predict the future?
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Brewer
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000639:trends; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States