Nursing One of the Fastest Growing Jobs in America

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Fastest Growing Jobs in America

by John Bedecarre and Scott Olster

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

How will the job market evolve in the next decade? Fortune takes a look at some of the fastest growing professions in the U.S.

Nurses

The number of registered nurses is expected to swell to 3.2 million by 2018, accounting for approximately 581,500 new jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's up from 2.6 million today, and it represents the largest overall growth projection out of all occupations in the U.S. economy, for good reason.

Americans aged 65 and older will make up 19% of the population in 2030, up from 12.4% in 2000. As the population ages and the growth of the working-age population slows down, there will be an increased demand for health care services in general, and home health care services in particular. In the past year, the home health care services industry has experienced sales growth of 11.2%, making it the fastest growing industry in the U.S., according to Sageworks, a financial analysis company.

Along with registered nurses, Sageworks projects that home care aids, physician assistants, pharmacists, and other medical professions will be in high demand for the foreseeable future.

For the rest of the article see: fastest-growing-jobs: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

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I get more and more depressed reading these articles since I still can't land an interview, let alone a hospital job.

Oh, and this is my first post (though I've been lurking around for a while). Hello everyone! :)

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Are they including LPNs in that #? 3.2 million? That seems excessively high.

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Stupid journalists should do their research. I've been writing them for the past few years that they are wrong. Until we all write them and enlighten them, and everybody else, how bad the situation really is, this will keep happening.

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Just my opinion.....

Most likely this article was artistically crafted with glamorous wording with the intent to increase mass interest in a college careers, just to make revenue off the referrals to colleges. This article was probably supplied by the company that manages all the college referrals in the first place. Just my 2 cents :)

While I agree, the future outlook for nursing is bright, with the aging baby boomers and avg age of nurses today somewhere around 50, eventually nursing will swing back into full swing and in high demand. So maybe these predictions are not to far off. I would speculate that by 2018 the pendulum will swing and the nursing employment will change for the better, hopefully sooner.

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The housing bubble and mortgage backed securities was easy money, and that backfired...how long until higher education gets the spotlight put squarely on schools and the fact that they facilitate massive borrowing when the jobs are neither guaranteed nor possible in existence at all. The debt that just the nursing students are taking on will probably go into default in droves. Its not going to be pretty. Look for "loan modifications" and bailout to student loan companies real soon. Also, cost of education is outpacing inflation at an obscene rate.

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Take home point being, the nursing shortage eased/ended a year ago...now what we have is blatant media/university/trade school smoke and mirrors. All of these are for profit operations last time I checked.

Yahoo has 'nursing shortage' articles all the time with links to schools at the bottom of the article. This is not journalism its infomercialism.

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Take home point being, the nursing shortage eased/ended a year ago...now what we have is blatant media/university/trade school smoke and mirrors. All of these are for profit operations last time I checked.

Yahoo has 'nursing shortage' articles all the time with links to schools at the bottom of the article. This is not journalism its infomercialism.

Oh I don't know about all of that.

Given the average age of curent RN's and normal attrition rates for nurses, especially bedside nurses sooner or later there will be a "shortage" again. If the economy turns around sooner than expected (yeah, I know), and or something else happens that allows the scores of experienced nurses who returned to bedside freedom to say "bye-bye" again, things may look different.

Not only for profit schools are pushing nursing, Obama and Congress are working to "retrain" unemployed workers via community college programs into nursing as well.

What sort of nursing "shortage" there will be in future is likely to rest upon what the profession looks like at that time. More and more once nursing functions are being peeled away and given over to CNAs and techs. If this keeps up you will have nurses only doing what legally cannot be done by anyone else.

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The housing bubble and mortgage backed securities was easy money, and that backfired...how long until higher education gets the spotlight put squarely on schools and the fact that they facilitate massive borrowing when the jobs are neither guaranteed nor possible in existence at all. The debt that just the nursing students are taking on will probably go into default in droves. Its not going to be pretty. Look for "loan modifications" and bailout to student loan companies real soon. Also, cost of education is outpacing inflation at an obscene rate.

You mean articles like this?

RealClearPolitics - The Higher Education Bubble: Ready to Burst?

or this?

Glenn Reynolds: Higher education's bubble is about to burst | Washington Examiner

Never happen :coollook:

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