Nursing will remain an in-demand job

Even though the recession has caught up to nursing, the so-called “recession-proof” job, experts say the demand for nurses won’t be slowed for long.  Vanderbilt’s Peter Buerhaus, a national expert on nursing employment, predicts that the nation will be short of 260,000 nurses by 2025, primarily attributed to an increasing demand for care as the baby boom generation enters old age. More nurses will also be needed to treat the 32 million Americans insured in 2014 under the health reform law. With those statistics in mind, experts believe the demand for nursing services will continue to rise. Nursing is still the fastest growing occupation in the U.S. today with approximately 3.2 million jobs by 2018, the American Nurses Association predicts.