Nursing MasteryCareer companion for nurses

NP & career growth

Moving up and branching out: nurse practitioner paths, leadership, charge and management roles, and the credentials that open them.

Guides

All guides →

HRSA’s new workforce report: more RNs and NPs, fewer LPNs, and a rural gap.

HRSA’s December 2025 report counts a growing RN and NP workforce and a shrinking LPN workforce, and projects a wider RN shortage outside metro areas by 2038.

workforcenursing_shortage

Dec 1, 2025 · 5 min readRead

NP & career growth

Guides

HRSA’s new workforce report: more RNs and NPs, fewer LPNs, and a rural gap.

More topics