The impact of California's staffing mandate and the economic recession on registered nurse staffing levels: A longitudinal analysis

The Great Recession of 2008 drove a decline in the growth rate of health care spending and a reduction in capital investments by health care providers as households, governments, and businesses faced economic hardship (Martin  et al., 2011). National unemployment rates increased from 5.0 percent in December 2007 to 9.5 percent in June 2009 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012). However, the health care industry historically experiences employment growth during recessions. Nursing jobs are no exception to this “co untercyclical” trend (Dolfman et al., 2017), but how this impacts actual hospital staffing levels during recessions is unknown.
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