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HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF BATON ROUGE I  JAN / FEB 2024 57 Karen C. Lyon, PhD, MBA, APRN-CNS, NEA Chief Executive Officer Louisiana State Board of Nursing Conclusions The information presented herein cre- ates a bleak picture of a nursing workforce that is predicted to lose over 20% of our total licensed nursing workforce. Not in- cluded in these numbers are normal losses from retirement, deaths, and returning to school. At least 25% of these numbers are younger nurses, those with ten years or less of work experience. This will lead to a healthcare workforce shortage so extraor- dinary that it will take all of us at the local, state, and national levels to avert this po- tential crisis. We need to build new models of care delivery; reformulate nursing edu- cation programs focused on competency education; reduce regulatory burden for education, licensure, and discipline; and utilize technology and artificial intelli- gence to enhance our profession. 3 n REFERENCES 1 Smiley, RA, Allgeyer, RL, Shobo, Y, Lyon, KC, Le- tourneau, R, Zhong, E, Kaminski-Ozurk, N, and Alexander, M. The 2022 National Nursing Work- force Survey. Journal of Nursing Regulation 14, issue 2, supplement 2 (April 2023): S1 – S90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2155-8256( 23)00047-9 2 National Council of State Boards of Nursing. “Solutions Addressing Nursing Workforce Cri- sis: 2023 NCSBN Symposium.” November 2023. https://www.ncsbn.org/public-files/2023-Solu- tionsSymposium-1-pager.pdf 3 National Council of State Boards of Nurs- ing. Symposium: Solutions Addressing Nursing Workforce Crisis. Live Stream. November 9, 2023.