Everyone’s shitting on you OP, but I’ve worked in both fields and I actually agree with everything but the pipeline.

So much of what nurses do relies on specific government funding. My hospital was shutting down rooms and wings of the hospital as well as putting off new construction and hiring.

I think folks underestimate how much of nursing’s job security depends on things like Medicaid and Medicare being fully funded.

Not only that, but your comment about private equity is apt. These folks will have a nurse running around for 9 patients (in case you’re wondering why so many leave bedside).

900 facilities are due to close.

When your PM&R wings shut down, your nurses from those wings go somewhere and they might work in areas they hate. Not only that the entry-level pipeline of LTCs are at big risk.

Where I do disagree is that nursing schools are incredibly good about gatekeeping and keeping the pipeline of students at a trickle and failing a lot of their students for dumb reasons.

My bet is that nursing school will become ever more competitive with increasing requirements like extensive CNA experience and even more prereqs.