future of nursing

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I, Turd Ferguson, am the future of nursing!

Seriously though, I'll be a nurse in like six months

Bookgirl's friend needs to knuckle down.

Robots. 'Nuff said.

Staff nurses .... more of a highly skilled role and less of a professional role.

This is despite more staff nurses having a high GPA / bachelors / post-grad nursing education/ other degrees / previous professional lives. I foresee a lot of job dissatisfaction.

Advanced nursing practice .... professional role.

However greater demand for these jobs which will be reflected in lowering of salaries and more NP's etc having to work as staff nurses or relocate. I foresee financial pressure.

Also prospective NP's rethinking their career path due to lack of financial payoff.

The removal of a lot of nursing jobs that don't have a clear function within the organisation. A lot of these jobs are M-F regular hours.

Many of these ex-bedside nurses will have foresight and will start picking up PRN bedside nursing work. This will add further pressure for the new grads who can't find work

Lots of dissatisfaction, more paperwork with less time to actually take care of patient (I.e. Cover your a** work), reduction in the ability to accumulate overtime, less people going for NP degree once it becomes a 4 year program, more people leaving the profession, high influx of new grads taking on more experienced roles due to high turn over rate, lowered pay...overall I feel nursing will be here for a long time but the respect and dignity of the profession is about to take a huge turn for the worst and a lot of it is due to stress and a lack of facility's appreciation for the work nurses do.

Nurses will return to school for writing degrees.