Bottom line: 4.46% of RN staff nurses left their EDs in 2007. It took an average of 57 days to fill vacancies. Data is from a survey of 700+ emergency departments in the US. Private, not-for-profit, teaching hospitals accounted for 36% of institutions represented and private, not-for-profit, non-teaching hospitals accounted for 22%.

Couselman FL, et al. A study of the workforce in emergency medicine: 2007. Am J Emerg Med. 2009; 27: 691-700
The study was funded by American College of Emergency Physicians, Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors, Emergency Medicine Foundation, Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, ENA, GE Healthcare, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

Reviewed 4/21/2014 ldt