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Nope. Sick Care ain't goin' nowhere! The "food products" in the supermarkets make sure it doesn't.
Do you think it's a conspiracy like I do?
Seriously though, while I agree with you that sick care is here to stay at some point the supply (of nurses) will out pace the demand, competition will increase (for the open positions), and the (potential) employers will hold the cards.
Do you think it's a conspiracy like I do?
Seriously though, while I agree with you that sick care is here to stay at some point the supply (of nurses) will out pace the demand, competition will increase (for the open positions), and the (potential) employers will hold the cards.
IDK, everyone and their fat brother are looking into nursing, a few yr ago, around here, some hospitals were actually helping people out with down payments on housing.
I think those days are gone, I've been hearing a lot about people jumping ship and getting into nursing...so it maybe become a little more glutted...
My best friend was a critical care nurse, my sister in law and her mother are both in nursing and one of my dad's wives was a anethesiologist. What I noticed was a change in demand based on where you live. Up in the midwest it's not as in demand as one would think and many nurses have to work at maybe several hospitals to make fulll time pay and have reduced benefits and when my brother and sister in law moved to Florida - a state with a high rate of sickly aged, she couldn't get a job to save herself -even at Target, because she wasn't bi-lingual and had to correct that. Location and the type of nursing will definitely have an impact on whether or not you stay in demand. (I have got to quit goint over to W/E). Plus you have to look at population shifts in any given decade. The baby boomer generation is being followed by a generation with fewer people - so that impacts demand right there.
Sit tight and wait to see what professions become short handed because everyone is going into nursing. I would venture to guess before this decade is out the nursing profession will be glutted like so many other professions the pay for those starting out will be a fraction of what it used to be. Just my .02
The nursing pool is aging fast. The average age for an RN is 44 years old, so these nurses are coming up for retirement in not so many years.
The AACN has a predicted shortage rather than a glut.
Well...I know I don't want to go back into the classroom (teacher) and I really have an interest in healthcare. I like service-type jobs. I'd never survive in an office setting.
I've also thought about a surgical tech...not quite sure yet which one would be a better fit.
I figure it can't hurt to go to the info session and get a sense of the program requirements and the fees involved.
This just in: emergency responders have sighted something unusual in the PA floodwaters, early reports believe it to be a waggy A.
Are you really getting flooded up there?
65,000 residents are under mandatory evac orders, the National Guard is out and we rented a 26' van last night to save as much as we could from the club. The water there is already coming in and the main floor will probably be under a few feet.
Not good.
But I'm safe and on high ground and warm, so I'm good. Thank Buddha for friends - I can't see myself pedaling my road bike through the river ...
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