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The National Review of Nursing Education 2002 was initiated in April 2001 to examine the future nursing educational needs of the health, community and aged care system in Australia and to provide advice on appropriate education policy and funding frameworks. The Review examined the effectiveness of current arrangements for the education and training of nurses, labour market factors affecting the employment of nurses and the choice of nursing as an occupation, and the key factors driving the demand for, and supply of, nursing education and training. The Review sought to make recommendations on models of nursing education and training, the types of skills and knowledge required, and mechanisms for attracting new recruits to nursing and encouraging the commitment to lifelong learning of those already engaged in nursing. The Review commissioned a wide range of research and six literature reviews. This report focuses on workforce models built for both university trained registered nurses and enrolled nurses trained in the vocational education sector. It is presented in five sections: the first section looks at the changes that have occurred in the nursing workforce during the 1990s, specifically looking at the major employment trends; the second section, using 'shift-share analysis' and primarily concerned with demand considerations, examines in detail the changes in the employment of nurses; in the third section, a dynamic model is built focusing on the supply side to better understand the relationship between nursing numbers, inflows of new graduates and migrants and outflows from the occupation; section four focuses on the interaction of demand and supply in the nursing workforce by comparing projections based on the two models; the final section offers the conclusion of the study. Details of the models and the data are described in a series of appendices.