Future

"More nursing jobs will be created in the next decade than in any other single profession. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that nearly 600,000 new jobs for registered nurses will be created by 2018."

Nursing Offers A Healthy Employment Future
by Tamara Keith, NPR.org

I am for recruiting nurses.
But this is not the way to do it:
"The fact that the wages are pretty high also sort of separates it from many occupations that would be growing";
And "You can work any hours you want ... particularly if you're a bedside nurse."
"Nurse Jackie," "Mercy," and "HawthoRNe" do not tell you everything.

Will there be an inflationary effect?
Because there is a need, the bar lowers in order to meet that need.
(Diploma programs, associate degrees hinder the profession than advance it.)
I don't consider myself as one who eats their young,
But I may have to eat the old.
"Nursing is a young person's game," a professor said.
Entry-level at 40 and above? For 12 hours on your feet? Think again.
By no means am I agist,
But going there for the wrong reasons will send you back sooner to square one.
That is burnout - a source of the shortage not mentioned in the article.