This means nurses have fewer patients to tend to. However, the patients who are in the hospital tend to need a high number of nurses because they more ill. Because so many procedures are done in one day, the number of jobs at outpatient facilities is expected to increase rapidly. Some of these rapidly growing areas are chemotherapy and rehabilitation. The fastest growth in nursing jobs should be at home health care agencies.
Many older people prefer to stay at home rather than move to a nursing facility.
They may need someone to come to their home and tend to them. These nurses need to be highly skilled because they may do complex tasks. Employment at nursing homes is also expected to grow rapidly. The number of elderly people has grown rapidly and many of them cannot live alone anymore. In addition, hospitals do not want patients to stay too long.