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The United States Bureau of Labor projects there will be a need for 50,000 new radiological techician positions by 2006. The National Association of Chain Drugstores conducted a survey recently that showed a vacancy of approximately 7000 pharmacists.
But the greatest need is in the field of nursing. The United States Department of Labor has reported that nursing jobs increased 36% in 2000 and this trend will continue.
In addition the enrollment in U.S. nursing schools has declined 5% per year for the past four straight years. On top of that the nursing population is retiring at an increasingly younger age.
The nursing shortage is particularly acute in the St. Louis Metropolitan area. St. Louis is home to two university hospitals and related health care systems and many hospitals. As of September, 2000, the ten largest hospitals in the metropolitan area housed 6759 licensed beds. 23% of these were unstaffed.
The area's largest hospital, Barnes-Jewish, affiliated with Washington University had approximately 15% of its nursing positions unfilled in 2000, over 300 openings. In 1999 the St. Louis University School of Nursing saw its first year nursing school enrollment drop 50%. Additionally, St. Louis is seeing its nursing population retire at the much younger average age of 48 years.
The opportunities for nursing in the St. Louis area are boundless.
Today there is an acute shortage of labor to fill nursing health care positions in the United States. There is also a substantial number of openings for pharmacists, radiological technicians, occupational therapists and physical therapists.
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