Macleans: Health care workers may be immune to unemployment

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Health care workers immune to unemployment? Or perhaps journalists are immune to accurate reporting on the nursing job market.

Health care workers may be immune to unemployment; Aging population means jobs in nursing, medicine and more (Macleans, Oct 8 2013)

http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2013/10/08/health-care-workers-may-be-immune-to-unemployment/

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Specializes in L&D, med/surg, ER.
Health care workers immune to unemployment? Or perhaps journalists are immune to accurate reporting on the nursing job market.

Health care workers may be immune to unemployment; Aging population means jobs in nursing, medicine and more (Macleans, Oct 8 2013)

http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2013/10/08/health-care-workers-may-be-immune-to-unemployment/

So inaccurate. It's because of reports like this that everyone outside of nursing believe nursing jobs are easy to find and that we don't struggle after graduating. I guess ignorance is bliss?

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Hello, AHS, are you listening?

No,didn't think so.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

The article didn't actually say registered/licensed practical nurses were recession-proof. "Health care workers" covers a LOT of ancillary positions that ARE being created and filled. Just look at all the health care aide positions AHS has created out of RN/LPN layoffs. And quoting nursing faculty doesn't lend credibility to the article either, since that ivory-towered group has NO contact with the real world. Otherwise why do so many nurses graduate with the notion that they can set their own schedules, never have to work a night, a weekend or a holiday, and never have to actually touch another human's body fluids? The qualifications required of faculty at the U of T speaks volumes. PhDs with heavy research and publication credentials... nothing about "nursing care" in there at all! And as for the graying of the health care workforce, once the provincial governments are finished unilaterally gutting our pension plans, none of us will be able to afford to retire. I'll be 64 1/2 years old before I reach the "magic 85" target that is about to be eliminated here... all for a monthly pension amount of about $800. Really?

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Specializes in geriatrics.

Many people won't ever be able to retire at all now, given the current trends. All these new grads in various professions without a steady income due to the new normal of contract and casual work will never save enough to retire properly, including myself.

All these cutbacks and an overall lag in the economy places additional strain on workers. So these politicians who propose they are saving money are in fact going to spend billions more in the long run on mental health and chronic illness, directly related to the poor working conditions for nurses and just about everyone else employed out there. The whole thing makes no sense at all.

I've been watching the trends over the years. Instead of the projected growth, health care continues to decline overall. Few jobs and poor working conditions across the country.

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Specializes in AC, LTC, Community, Northern Nursing.

I pretty much figure i will die on the floor.. No retirement for me :(

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