Nursing Jobs and Employment

Nursing Jobs continue to be advertised more and more. Overall nursing job opportunities are expected to be excellent for registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Hospitals, clinics and private physician practices in some parts of the country report difficulty in attracting and retaining an appropriate number of RNs and registered nurses primarily because of an aging nursing workforce and a lack of younger generation nurses to fill open positions. Qualified applications to nursing schools are being turned away because there is a shortage of professional nursing faculty. The need for experienced nursing faculty will only increase as many senior instructors near retirement age. Despite the slower employment growth in many hospitals, nursing job opportunities should still be excellent because of the relatively high turnover of hospital nurses as the competition for experienced nurses is extreme. To attract and retain professional qualified nurses, hospitals can offer signing bonuses, school loan forgiveness, family friendly working schedules and or subsidized training and continuing education. Although faster employment growth is projected in physicians' offices, urgent care clinics and outpatient care centers, registered nurses may face greater competition for these positions because they generally offer steady working schedules and more appealing working environments. Often, nursing professionals with at least a bachelor's degree will have better job prospects than nurses without a bachelor's degree. All four advanced practice specialties continue to be in high demand:clinical nursing specialists, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and nurse anesthetists, particularly in areas such as inner cities and rural communities. In the absence of physicians, nursing professionals increasingly serve as lower cost primary care providers to patients and communities.

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