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Would there be an RN saturation for the next three years? The projected job growth for PAs is 3 times more than RN

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On 9/27/2020 at 12:40 PM, implathszombie9 said:

Would there be an RN saturation for the next three years? The projected job growth for PAs is 3 times more than RN

 

Citing a statistic comes with the responsibility of backing up the numbers. Adding 'example only' and 'might' would have clarified that you were only speculating. 

 

 

 

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On 9/28/2020 at 2:26 AM, implathszombie9 said:

Why are you so mean? It’s jusQuestion and I read your postt Question and I read your post

Perhaps her username is having a subliminal effect on you? ?

If there is a grand total of 100 people licensed in profession A in a certain geographic area and there is an expected demand of 100 more in the next whatever time period, then profession A has an expected growth of 100% in that time period. 

If schools are graduating 10 profession A students in the near future, their work prospects look rather good. If on the other hand schools are expected to pump out 500 new A graduates, then the picture changes drastically.

If there currently are 3,000 licensed professional B peeps, and there is an expected demand of 450 more in a given time period, then the expected growth of profession B, is 15%. Right? So again, with B schools about to graduate 100 new ?s (?) the job market looks great. If 2,000 new B professionals are about to graduate, not so good...

So I think all that meanmaryjean was saying was: lies, damn lies, and statistics.. Well, sort of... The point is that without a source and context, it’s hard to say anything helpful about the numbers you mentioned in your post. 

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Specializes in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist (SRNA).

Very much local...you can walk into basically any hospital in Tennessee and walk out with a job in any unit you want, they're that short.  But it's also not a highly desirable area for RNs relocating for some reasons, including pay being about 46/50 in the nation, according to Nurse.org.  Being from San Diego, that's a different story.  I know many experienced RNs that don't even get a look when trying to change hospitals unless you know someone. 

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I live in an area that is supposedly saturated with RNs but it truly is not.

Where I live, if you are an RN you can get a job very, very easily at a nursing home, in home care, psych hospitals and most other settings besides a big hospital. If you want to work in a big hospital, you must have a BSN and its just more difficult. 

We are still experiencing a shortage here. 

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1 hour ago, FolksBtrippin said:

I live in an area that is supposedly saturated with RNs but it truly is not.

Where I live, if you are an RN you can get a job very, very easily at a nursing home, in home care, psych hospitals and most other settings besides a big hospital. If you want to work in a big hospital, you must have a BSN and its just more difficult. 

We are still experiencing a shortage here. 

What part of the country are you in?

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5 hours ago, FolksBtrippin said:

I live in an area that is supposedly saturated with RNs but it truly is not.

Where I live, if you are an RN you can get a job very, very easily at a nursing home, in home care, psych hospitals and most other settings besides a big hospital. If you want to work in a big hospital, you must have a BSN and its just more difficult. 

We are still experiencing a shortage here. 

How does one determine that this is actual shortage, as opposed to frequent turnover and certain employers having difficulty retaining staff?

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6 hours ago, Jedrnurse said:

What part of the country are you in?

NJ

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2 hours ago, JKL33 said:

How does one determine that this is actual shortage, as opposed to frequent turnover and certain employers having difficulty retaining staff?

I don't know. But I can tell you that I am constantly turning down jobs. There's no shortage of jobs for me. There's a shortage of good jobs, and that's because there aren't enough nurses. So the jobs are always hard,and sometimes impossible and often without adequate orientation.

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28 minutes ago, FolksBtrippin said:

There's a shortage of good jobs, and that's because there aren't enough nurses.

I would think a shortage of good jobs means there are enough nurses (?) If it were easy to get a good job I would think that suggestive of there being a fundamental shortage, as in, even good places cannot get enough help (because there aren't enough people to fill their openings).

The least desirable places constantly needing help is most indicative of them being terrible places to work.

If you serve crappy food you may not have many customers, but not because there literally aren't any customers in your area.

Who knows. Thanks for the reply.

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