Nurse Recruitment and Nurse Retention Blog: Healthcare Industry Growth on the Rise
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, January 25th, 2012Stable growth in the healthcare industry means good things in terms of nurse recruitment and nurse retention. The healthcare industry is one of the nation’s fastest-growing, surviving the economy’s drastic plunge in 2008 and prospering in the years since. Between 2007 and September 2011, while total U.S. non-farm employment plummeted 4.7%, employment in the healthcare [...]
Healthcare Jobs: Ambulatory Care Jobs Double
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, January 18th, 2012I’m always thrilled to hear of healthcare jobs on the rise – especially within the nursing profession. Driving growth in ambulatory services is a number of factors. Technological advances have enabled a greater number of health problems to be treated by outpatient doctors and nurse practitioners.
A boom in nursing care, as record numbers hit retirement [...]
Healthcare Employment Growing!
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, October 7th, 2011Nursing has always been one of the most recession-proof professions and that has once again been proven. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care is one of the few industries that continued to show employment growth during the recession.
More than 170,900 jobs were created in health care in the first 7 months [...]
Huge Increase in Student Nurse Enrollment!
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, December 21st, 2010The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) surveyed 648 nursing schools, out of a total of 807 schools in the U.S. The results show that entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs increased enrollment by 6.1% this past year.
This is the tenth straight year that enrollment in BSN programs has increased, but AACN reports [...]
Nurses Spend Only 30% of Their Time Caring for Patients
Written by LeAnn Thieman, CSP, November 2nd, 2010Here’s a great idea! Let’s let nurses spend more time caring for patients!
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is a joint effort by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI.) The key goal of the initiative is to increase the amount of time nurses spend with patients. (www.ihi.org.) The American [...]
