HJNO Mar/Apr 2025

46 MAR / APR 2025 I  HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS NURSING COLUMN NURSING registered nurses between 2025 and 2037 will outpace the supply. 1 The challenge for the nursing education and nursing practice communities is to develop inno- vative solutions to the loss of seasoned nurses while at the same time improving the practice environment for the newly IN THE JAN/FEB 2025 EDITION of Healthcare Journal of NewOrleans , I report- ed that a strong and expanding workforce requires that we keep approving and ex- panding our educational institutions that educate the future RN workforce. Louisi- ana has increased the number of our cur- rent prelicensure RN programs from 25 to 33 over the last five years. This has re- sulted in a 30% increase in new graduates from 2,009 in 2019 to 2,608 in 2023. That is the good news. The concerning news is that the Health Resources and Service Ad- ministration projects that the demand for The Challenge of Nurse Recruitment: Workforce Shortages Continue