Will Nursing always be HOT?

[zoprack]

So, I've heard the "saying" before that in the context of careers, "whatever is hot now, will not be in the future".

1. Nursing Shortage

We talk about nurses shortage all the time nowadays, so would it be imaginable, that because of this shortage, we have so many people right now going into nursing that there won't be a shortage in the future?

2. Nursing Profession

So I've read quite a few messages posted on this board, and so I get the feeling that the Nursing profession or at least the environment has changed quite a bit from a couple years before. Changes in that healtcare/hospitals has turned into a big business not longer caring as much about the patient as before. Do you think this will improve in the future?

I want to leave the "corporate world" to become a nurse, so I would really hate it if I find myself in the same environment.

[Kwality]

Whether people think nursing is "hot" really doesn't matter, but there will always be someone who is sick and in need of care from a nurse. :)

[JeanettePNP, MSN, RN, NP]

She's asking whether there soon will be a market glut of nurses. I don't see that happening though, because there's a bottleneck in the nursing schools - they only accept a limited number of students, and nursing school itself weeds a lot of people out. So it doesn't look like there will be an overproduction of nurses anytime soon.

[student4ever]

She's asking whether there soon will be a market glut of nurses. I don't see that happening though, because there's a bottleneck in the nursing schools - they only accept a limited number of students, and nursing school itself weeds a lot of people out. So it doesn't look like there will be an overproduction of nurses anytime soon.

And if the corporate hospitals and greedy insurance companies keep it up, more nurses will be taking "early retirement" because they're sick of dealing with red tape and endless paperwork! But despite all of that, like the other poster said, there will always be sick people who need a caring nurse. And those of us dedicated to helping them will be there, fighting "the powers that be" for those patients. It will go on and on until the end of time, in my opinion. That's one of the things I love about the profession I have chosen... there will ALWAYS be someone who needs me to care for them, and that's why I'm busting my butt in school... so I can be there to help!