Peter Koch, Jan Felix Kersten, Albert Nienhaus
Monitoring a cohort of trainees: changes over time and associations between health literacy, health behaviour and health
Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England)
healthcare workforce representative raceethnicity composition population serves central addressing systemic health inequities aim study assess workforce trends underrepresented minority urm nurses using national sample survey registered nurses years 2008 2018 american community survey years 2010 2019 examined changes time urm composition blackafrican american baa latine american indianalaskan native aian native hawaiianpacific islander nhpi registered nurses rn nurse practitioners nps educational attainment diplomaassociate bsn msnphd job type patient care research administrationsupervision teaching ruralurban location using descriptive statistics bivariate regressions proportion urm rn workforce grew significantly urm group demonstrating proportional gains aprn workforce latine nurses urm representation educational attainment grew across degree types 20182019 latine nurses largest representation diplasn degree group saw proportional decline phd educated nurses baa nurses largest representation msnphd level however smaller proportions baa nurses working aprns compared nonurm colleagues phd level baa nurses represented research teaching positions subgroup analysis unemployed nurses seeking work revealed baa aian nurses overrepresented among unemployed nurses todays nursing workforce representative nation ever results show unequal representation urm nonurm nurses across ranks nursing professions suggest unequal career labor market opportunities