The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) Download makes data from the survey readily available to users in a one-stop download. The Survey has been conducted approximately every four years since 1977. For each survey year, HRSA has prepared two Public Use File databases in flat ASCII file format without delimiters. The 2008 data are also offerred in SAS and SPSS formats. Information likely to point to an individual in a sparsely-populated county has been withheld. General Public Use Files are State-based and provide information on nurses without identifying the County and Metropolitan Area in which they live or work. County Public Use Files provide most, but not all, the same information on the nurse from the General Public Use File, and also identifies the County and Metropolitan Areas in which the nurses live or work. NSSRN data are to be used for research purposes only and may not be used in any manner to identify individual respondents.

The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) assists the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr), in carrying out congressional mandates. This is the ninth study and was conducted with registered nurses (RN) who held an active RN license as of March 10, 2008.

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This dataset tracks the updates made on the dataset "Nursing Workforce Survey Data (National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses)" as a repository for previous versions of the data and metadata.

In 2025, nearly ********** of nurses were satisfied with their current job(s) in the United States. However, only a quarter were very satisfied, while a larger share were only somewhat satisfied with their job. On the other hand, nurses satisfied with their career choice was much higher.

Abstract (en): The Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 2 Survey, 2012 is the second wave of a multi-wave panel survey that studied newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between August 1, 2010 and July 31, 2011. It was conducted as part of the RN Work Project, a national study of new nurses funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The survey interviewed the nurses about their jobs, turnover, education, intentions and attitudes--including intent, satisfaction, organizational commitment, and preferences about work. The Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 2 Survey, 2012 and the full series sought to accomplish three main objectives:

Describe newly licensed registered nurses' changes in work patterns and factors associated with those changes over an extended time period by following the panel from our current Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded study for an additional six years.; Compare educational background, work setting, and work satisfaction among three different cohorts of NLRN.; Describe the training about patient safety of NLRNs employed in hospitals. The primary advantage of cohort data is to find out how groups graduating in different years are more or less similar. That information provides with an indication of changes in the environment or in those people who choose nursing as a career. Collecting data on two additional cohorts will help us separate the threats to internal validity of history versus maturational effects.; Panel data was used for this study and all others in the series because it made it possible to determine the similarities and differencies in groups graduating in different years. That information provides an indication of changes in the environment or in those people who choose nursing as a career. Collecting data on two additional cohorts helped the researchers separate the threats to internal validity of history versus maturational effects. Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI) determined the distribution of nurses by site needed in order to achieve a minimum of 1,500 completed surveys. Each nurse was assigned a random number. This list was then organized by each of the 27 sites and sorted according to random numbers. The first N (number of respondents needed) were selected from each site. ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed consistency checks.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.. Presence of Common Scales: Large variety of scales from literature and questions identical to HRSA National Sample Survey - RNs 2005. Response Rates: 47% Datasets:DS1: Dataset Newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between August 1, 2010 and July 31, 2011. Smallest Geographic Unit: Region The sample design for the New Cohort 2 study sampled new RNs residing in 22 MSAs and 2 rural counties in 14 states across the country. For additional information please refer to the User Guide. 2020-02-20 Online variable search capabilities have been added for this study. Funding institution(s): Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (51120). mail questionnaire