Advanced Practice Recruiters: CRNA – Supply and Demand. A student’s question.

The Advanced Practice Recruiters received an e-mail requesting data regarding hiring trends and supply and demand from a CRNA student. I felt that others could benefit from this information, so I decided to post it on our blog.

Here is the e-mail from the student:

Hi,
I am a senior in nurse anesthesia school. Many of the CRNAs believe schools are "pumping out CRNAs" and there is an "overproduction of supply of CRNAs exceeding demand".
Is this true? And if so, do you have any research studies to support that? And if not, do you have studies to support the opposite?
Thanks so much.
Respectfully,
NAP11

APRx’s Response:

We have seen 113 jobs posted for CRNAs in the last 30 days. So there is certainly a demand to hire CRNAs.

The hiring trends for CRNAs over the past 4 years has been sporadic. In Q4 of 2009 you can see a huge spike in hiring demand. Yet, in 2010 there has been a steep decline. I'm not sure why this occurred. It shouldn't be an indicator for supply and demand, but it does give us an indication as to the overall hiring trends for CRNAs

Hiring trends over the last 4 years for CRNAs:

Supply and Demand Map:

CRNAs are combined with Anesthesiologists for determining the Supply/Demand (S/D) for the Anesthesia jobs. This map shows the areas that have more jobs than practitioners. Locations are given an average score of 100 or a 1:1 (practitioner:job) ratio, the circles show values greater than 100 indicating stronger than average Hiring Demand. S/D Ratios are constructed by comparing the number of online job ads for an occupation in a city to an occupation-specific national average Hiring Demand rate. We need to have seen at least 10 job ads for an occupation in a city for the data to appear on this map, so rural locations that hire 1-9 CRNAs in a year are not seen on this map.

I don't believe schools are "pumping out CRNAs" or that there is an "overproduction of supply CRNAs exceeding demand." I know from experience that people measure what is relative to them. So given the location of CRNA training programs and the available jobs in these desired cities it may seem to a group of individuals that there are fewer jobs than practitioners being trained. However, when looking at the larger picture I believe there is a strong need for your profession and a need to train more CRNAs.

If you or your colleagues would like help locating a job upon the completion of training, we would be glad to lead you in the right direction.

Sincerely,

Blake A. Moser, MSHRD, CPC

o: 888.812.3452 x707

c: 903.714.6878

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e: blake@aprx.net

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