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Originally Posted by High Altitude
There is going to be an absolute glut of nurses.
I think 7 out of 10 high school females that are graduating that I have met in the last two years all say they are going into nursing. Every high school function I have been to in the last two years has been like this. It is absolutely crazy.
All these parents are pushing their kids into nursing thinking they will have a secure job.
There is going to be a ton of unemployed nurses in about 3-5 years.
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I couldn't agree more! At the LTC/Rehab facility I work at, there's LPN's going to school to get their RN degrees, CNA's going to school to become RN's, and I asked one LPN how many were in her class: 30. And there's a number of schools right here in Las Vegas offering RN programs, and this particular RN chose to go to school as it was closest to her house.
With the cutbacks in Medicaid, (more to come?), a number of these LTC care facilities, in order to survive,
must go through the expense of modifying their facilities to incorporate Rehab, Vent-Trac units, and whatever, to gain more money from Medicare, which pays more. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess when the Medicare cutbacks will appear, and then what?
During the "go-go" days at my facility, been there 14 years, there were 7 nurses, 7 aides on the nightshift, and with cutbacks, we're now down to 4 nurses, and, until they opened up a Vent-trac unit, only 4 aides. Now, with that additional unit, they have 2 aides on that hall.
But a facility just can't make it today with just Medicaid, long-term care patients.