What is a likely implication of the NSSRN being discontinued in 2010?

• A. Data on nursing workforce demographics ceased to be collected by NSSRN
• B. Data collection stopped entirely
• C. NSSRN was replaced by a different survey in the same year
• D. There was no impact on data collection

Answer: (A)

When a data collection instrument is discontinued, the specific information it produced stops being gathered through that instrument. If the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses was discontinued in 2010, the data on nursing workforce demographics that had been collected by that survey would no longer be gathered by NSSRN. Other sources might still collect related information, but NSSRN’s own contributions to nursing workforce demographics would end. The other options either overstate the impact (no data collection at all) or assume an immediate replacement in the same year, which isn’t implied by the disruption.