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The School of Health Nursing Department offers classes throughout the
day and beginning in late afternoon. The late afternoon sections
begin at 5:00pm. Please attend an
Information Session.
 Department
of Labor OUTLOOK for Nursing.
Job opportunities for RNs are expected to be very good. Employment of registered nurses is
expected to grow faster than the average
for all occupations through 2010, and because the occupation is very large, many new jobs
will result. Thousands of job openings also will result from the need to replace
experienced nurses who leave the occupation, especially as the median age of the
registered nurse population continues to rise.
Some States report current and projected shortages of RNs, primarily due to an aging RN
workforce and recent declines in nursing school enrollments. Imbalances between the supply
of and demand for qualified workers should spur efforts to attract and retain qualified
RNs. For example, employers may restructure workloads, improve compensation and working
conditions, and subsidize training or continuing education.
Faster than average growth will be driven by technological advances in patient care,
which permit a greater number of medical problems to be treated, and an increasing
emphasis on preventive care. In addition, the number of older people, who are much more
likely than younger people to need nursing care, is projected to grow rapidly.
Employment in hospitals, the largest sector, is expected to grow more slowly than in
other healthcare sectors. While the intensity of nursing care is likely to increase,
requiring more nurses per patient, the number of inpatients (those who remain in the
hospital for more than 24 hours) is not likely to increase much. Patients are being
discharged earlier and more procedures are being done on an outpatient basis, both in and
outside hospitals. However, rapid growth is expected in hospital outpatient facilities,
such as those providing same-day surgery, rehabilitation, and chemotherapy.
Employment in home healthcare is expected to grow rapidly. This is in response to the
growing number of older persons with functional disabilities, consumer preference for care
in the home, and technological advances that make it possible to bring increasingly
complex treatments into the home. The type of care demanded will require nurses who are
able to perform complex procedures.
Employment in nursing homes is expected to grow faster than average due to increases in
the number of elderly, many of whom require long-term care. In addition, the financial
pressure on hospitals to discharge patients as soon as possible should produce more
nursing home admissions. Growth in units that provide specialized long-term rehabilitation
for stroke and head injury patients or that treat Alzheimer's victims also will increase
employment.
An increasing proportion of sophisticated procedures, which once were performed only in
hospitals, are being performed in physicians' offices and clinics, including ambulatory
surgicenters and emergency medical centers. Accordingly, employment is expected to grow
faster than average in these places as healthcare in general expands.
In evolving integrated health care networks, nurses may rotate among employment
settings. Because jobs in traditional hospital nursing positions are no longer the only
option, RNs will need to be flexible. Opportunities should be excellent, particularly for
nurses with advanced education and training.
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