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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adv Nurs. 2010 Nov 15;67(2):438–449. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05501.x

Table 1.

Comparison of RN study participants with RNs in USA employed in hospitals*

Study participants
RNs in USA
employed in
hospitals
in 2008
Phases 1
and 3		 Phase 4
Number 36 562 1,615,085
Age in years Median = 44 Median = 40 Mean = 47·0
Percentage of male 6 15 Not reported†
Percentage of non-Caucasian race/ethnicity 9 15 16·9
Percentage with BS/BSN or higher 81 68 50·7
†

The report states ‘While predominately White and female… (p. 11), but the 2008 report did not provide data on gender’. The previous statistics on gender from the registered nurse work force using 2004 data reported that 5.8% employed nurses were male (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HRSA, BuHP, & Division of Nursing 2004).