Masters in Healthcare Admin or certificate?? Any ideas or suggestions??

[marianne202]

Contrary to popular belief there isn't a nursing shortage anymore. Most nursing schools have been asked to cut down on the number of student they are graduating. The largest growth in the near future will be geriatric nursing and the necessary CNA's and patient care techs. Hospitals are shutting down or leasing sections of their hospitals as we have transitioned to outpatient care. It takes far less nurses to take care of patients when they aren't in the hospital, but treated outpatient. There will be a need for nurses in the coming decade as the average age of working nurses is 40, but due to the rapid rise in the number of nursing graduates it outpaced the available positions. Most hospitals have moved some of the duties of nurses to CNA's, LPN's, Med Techs and Patient Care Techs. It saves them money and was supposed to relieve overworked nurses. I'm not sure it did that, but I do know hospitals just aren't hiring. If they do they either hire new nurses who they can pay less or they only want experienced nurses. I think hospitals are going through some massive changes right now and as such they are afraid to spend too much on nursing staff. A lot of our nursing graduates can't find jobs either. It will shift, but it may take a few years. After 30 yrs in this business I have seen this type of shift before. It will come back around.