Looking For A Lucrative Career? Check Into Nursing!

Looking for a lucrative career? Check into Nursing!

If you’re interested in health professions – and you’re not squeamish! – check into nursing.  Now that people are living longer thanks to improved medical care and an uptick in living healthier lives, we’re going to need more than a million nurses to serve patients by 2022. Yikes!

Both public and private colleges are joining programs to provide bachelor-ready nurses.  To speed up the process, 4-year colleges are working with community colleges so students can take classes concurrently. The National Academy of Medicine is hoping that 80% of nurses will have their bachelor’s degree by 2020; in 2016, only 54% had it. This is such a concern that health agency employers are requiring nurses to get their bachelor’s degree as a condition of their continued employment.

Although most nursing programs are impacted today, this will change when universities partner with community colleges to open more spaces and speed up the process of earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN).

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