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TABLE 403. EMPLOYMENT SETTING AND TYPE OF POSITION FOR EMPLOYED REGISTERED NURSES, MARCH 2000

Employment Setting
Type of Position
Total
Managers 2/
Staff
Nurse
Nurse
Practitioner/
Midwife
Clinical
Nurse
Specialist
Nurse
Clinician
Certified
Nurse
Anesthetist
Instructor
Consultant/
Researcher
Private
Duty
Other
Total 2,201,813 1/
308,559
1,357,349
67,882
40,833
32,364
24,314
61,641
40,830
10,592
232,701
Hospital 1,300,323  
122,725
971,401
19,938
24,920
17,525
20,916
14,508
9,838
604
83,336
Nursing home/extended
care facility
152,894
61,343
63,493
1,305
832
336
17
4,338
2,749
139
16,735
Nursing education 46,655
6,447
2,552
355
249
22
40
33,511
1,522
0
1,604
Community/public health 282,618
55,667
117,171
10,791
5,419
5,197
553
2,485
5,749
9,199
66,705
Student health service 83,269
4,357
64,871
4,035
1,033
333
213
3,505
1,262
93
2,884
Occupational health 36,395
7,069
11,456
1,342
1,205
852
0
465
6,971
0
6,835
Ambulatory care setting
employee
209,324
33,039
106,672
28,076
6,295
7,481
2,451
1,795
3,880
556
17,425
Other 90,335
17,914
19,674
2,040
882
619
124
1,034
8,858
0
37,178

1/ Includes an estimated 24,747 nurses whose type of position was not known.
2/ Includes Administrators, Supervisors, and Head Nurses.

Note: Individual items may not add to total due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Nursing. National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, March 2000.