Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Earn advanced degrees in psychiatric-mental health nursing, and apply the nursing process to treat individuals or families with psychiatric disorders.
2038 Supply (SQ)
30,920
2038 Demand (SQ)
31,240
2038 Gap
-320
2038 Elevated Need
50,820
Supply & demand trend — US Total, Metro
HRSA scenarios · 13 lines
Each line is a separate HRSA projection. Blue = supply, red = demand. The two solid "Status Quo" lines are the baseline projections HRSA publishes; dashed lines are HRSA's own stress tests. Hover a line for the exact year value, or click a chip below to isolate it.
Supply scenarios
Demand scenarios
Methodology notes
- All values come directly from HRSA's Workforce_Projections_FullData.xlsx (FY2025 release).
- Values are rounded to the nearest 10 per HRSA disclosure convention.
- The chart shows every scenario HRSA publishes for this (profession, geography, rurality) tuple. Missing lines = scenario not applicable to this profession (e.g., Income Effect only applies to oral health; Unmet Need only to behavioral health).
- See Methodology & Sourcesfor HRSA's model assumptions and our extension plan.