Will the economy ever get better so less people will pursue nursing?

[AddisonLawrence03]

Competiton is too much. It's the same at every school. When will this go away? I'm so frustrated!

[MaxMastan]

Hello, the economy looks bleak in Europe at the moment, I am unclear how the rest of the world is coping, especially when it comes to Nursing, as I understand it as demand is far less for nurses in Europe except UK, where there is a need.

[ccso962]

Hello, the economy looks bleak in Europe at the moment, I am unclear how the rest of the world is coping, especially when it comes to Nursing, as I understand it as demand is far less for nurses in Europe except UK, where there is a need.

I think the economy is pretty bad across most of the world. It is worse in some places than others, and of course there will always be the economists who wish to remain employed who will, from month to month, turn out hopeful "predictions" of a "recovery" just around the corner currently out of view (always out of view in fact it would seem).

As far as the overall job market here in the US, we are fastly becoming a society of "part-time" workers. Not so much because people only want to work part-time, but because the majority of the jobs that are being added, or offered, are part-time. Even some of the "full-time" jobs are different now than they used to be. A friend of mine, for example, applied to a "full-time" hospital security officer job at one point and during the process found out that this "full-time" position would "cap" at 60 hours every two weeks or 30 hours every week. Very rarely, they said, officers would be required to work "overtime" but this would never amount to more than 8 hours in any given two week pay period. Nor would the "overtime" incur actual "overtime" pay since it would not, normally, push the person over 40 hours in a week. Now, on the plus side the job did offer benefits and, due to the way the position was staffed, he would work three days a week (ten hour shifts). As it was he didn't get the job (since they decided instead to not hire for it in the end due to budget cuts). Anyway, this is a just a brief example of the job market here in the US.