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Nursing: Where the Jobs Are - According the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (20March2012), "The latest BLS report showed for RNs the highest earnings and employment rates were: hospitals 57.3%, home health care nursing care facilities, or outpatient care 14%, physician offices are at 8.7% and the remaining jobs are divided among a variety of government and academic organizations. These high rates are also regional, although most nurses tend to stay close to home finding jobs within 40 miles of where they went to high school. AACN data shows that more than 500 baccalaureate nursing programs turned away 51,082 qualified applicants in 2011 due to a shortage of clinical placement sites, faculty, and funding." TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE. Health Care Jobs Up: The Future is on the Frontline - According the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (20March2012), "Employers need health care workers at every level of the industry, but improvements in training are needed to fuel the pipeline. Cuts to education have made it difficult to obtain the training needed to take advantage of new opportunities especially for frontline and allied health care workers. Some suggest that hospitals and other health care institutions can share part of the cost of training these workers. This idea has been difficult do the state of the economy, retired nurses coming back into the workforce and those who planned retirement staying on longer at a hospital." TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE. Where the Jobs Are, the Training May Not Be - According to the NY Times, (01March2012), "Public colleges have raised tuition and are now resorting to even more desperate measures - cutting training for jobs the economy needs most. Nursing program applicants so outnumber available slots that there is a waiting list just to get on the waiting list. Other problems include classes getting bigger, tenured faculty members are replaced with adjuncts and technical courses are sacrificed." TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE.