Opportunities For Nursing Home Jobs For Nurses

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One of the more in demand jobs for nurses these days is working in nursing homes. With an aging population, especially in the US, home nursing care becomes even more necessary for folks to have better quality of life. Of course these folks can just go to nursing homes that provide cost-effective ways to enable patients with injuries, acute illnesses or postoperative care needs to recover in an environment outside a hospital.

* Number of nursing homes: 18,000
* Number of beds: 1.9 million
* Occupancy rate: 87 percent
* Number of current residents: 1.6 million
* Average length of stay (current resident): 892 days (2.44 years)
* Number of discharged residents: 2.5 million
* Average length of stay (discharged resident): 272 days (8.94 months)

These statistics go way back 10 years ago so one can just imagine how this looks now.

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration in the US foresees that by the year 2020, the demand for nurses in home care settings (including “managed care nursing home settings) is expected to increase by as much as 250%.

If you’re a nurse or you just passed the recent June 2009 Nursing Board Exams, you might want to consider this as a career option. If you think this is for you, one resource that you can look at is Core Medical Group. You can learn all about them in this link — opportunities for international nurses.

If Australia, with its beaches and sunny weather, is where you want to practice your nursing skills, here’s a very good resource that you could check out. It only costs a few bucks for very good information.

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4 Responses to "How About A Career In Nursing Home Care?"

Rob July 10, 2009 3:40 pm

It's a commendable place to find employment, and there's definitely a demand with the aging boomer generation.
@onlinernschools October 9, 2009 4:59 pm

Great Article. Nursing schools should do a better job or preparing student for nursing home work. students automatically assume that they are going to a hospital setting. Most of them will need to gain their experience after nursing school in a long term care facility. Feel free to visit our blog as well at http://www.nursingschoolnetwork.com
Care Homes February 5, 2010 1:35 pm

Hi,
I totally agree with you onlinernschools.
Actually, we are ourselves one of the most important care home group over the UK, and I can see 1/3 of our site traffic generated through recruitment page. It is indeed a cost-effective type of care very demanded nowadays . We even had to double our HR department size in the two last years. There are room for nursing jobs in majority of care homes in our country. Just to let you know.

Regards,
Susan Peterson
CaringHomes.Org Manager :|
Jamie Whitehouse March 1, 2010 9:39 pm

I have found that many care homes seem to be cutting back on the amount of registered nurses that they employ, and increasing the number of non-nursing care assistants in a bid to drive down costs. Even the homes that specialize in nursing care are having to cut back in a recession. The problem is that this is reducing the number of skill nursing jobs available nationwide.

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