NURSE PRACTITIONERS Dade 3
Catoosa 12
Walker 5
Whitfield 54
Murray 7
Fannin 12
Union 17
Towns 2
Rabun 2
Gilmer 4
Nurse Practitioners according to region and county Non-Rural
White Habersham 15 4 Lumpkin Rural Stephens Gordon 17 Chattooga 14 Pickens 19 4 12 Dawson Banks Franklin Hart Non-rural counties 5 Hall 4 6 1 with zero NPs 101 Floyd Cherokee Forsyth Bartow 70 47 43 26 Jackson Rural counties Madison Elbert 20 1 1 with zero NPs Polk Barrow Clarke Gwinnett 4 Cobb 4 Oglethorpe 88 251 Map from the Georgia State Office of Rural Health (2008). 267 Paulding 4 Rural counties defined as those with < 35,000 residents Oconee 17 Wilkes Walton Haralson 9 DeKalb Lincoln 2 19 2 433 Douglas 1 29 Rockdale Fulton Carroll 20 684 Clayton Morgan Greene Taliaferro Columbia Newton 54 5 3 21 0 31 Henry McDuffie 12 7 52 Fayette Warren Richmond 57 Coweta 1 Putnam Heard 139 35 Butts Jasper 0 Spalding Hancock 1 0 7 Glascock 23 0 0 Pike Lamar Burke Baldwin Jefferson Meriwether 0 4 Jones Monroe 30 6 1 Troup 2 Washington 4 2 29 5 Upson 10 Bibb Jenkins Wilkinson 110 1 0 Harris Screven Crawford Talbot Johnson 0 4 Twiggs 1 1 2 4 Emanuel Taylor Peach 9 Muscogee 1 Laurens 3 90 21 Bleckley Marion Houston Treutlen Effingham Bulloch 6 Candler 1 41 Macon 1 8 44 0 2 Chattahoochee 6 Schley Montgomery Pulaski 2 0 6 Dodge Evans Dooly Wheeler 4 4 Toombs Stewart 3 Bryan 1 Sumter Webster 16 5 11 Chatham 19 Tattnall 0 Wilcox 166 Telfair 1 2 Crisp 2 9 Liberty Quitman 15 1 Lee Appling Terrell Jeff Davis Ben Hill Long 1 6 Randolph 0 3 Turner 5 0 1 0 Wayne Clay Irwin Bacon Coffee Dougherty Calhoun 7 0 5 Worth 1 19 McIntosh 67 1 Tift 2 0 32 Early Pierce 1 Baker Glynn 1 Atkinson Berrien 0 35 0 1 Mitchell Miller Brantley Colquitt 4 Ware 2 Cook 1 19 23 0 Lanier Clinch 1 Camden Seminole 0 13 Charlton 0 Lowndes Decatur Grady 2 Thomas Brooks 70 6 1 3 22 Echols 0
Georgia distribution of actively practicing Nurse Practitioners according to region and county. Data from responses to the Georgia Board of Nursing licensure renewal survey in 2014 and 2015. Response rate of actively practicing NPs to the survey question about primary employer zip code: 94.2%. 86.1% (n=3,873) of these gave a Georgia zip code. Note these numbers do not include newly-licensed APRNs in this time frame. Version 4/4/16
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