Nursing Shortage : Did you know that by the year 2020, there will be an estimated shortage of 800,000 nurses?

With the world population living longer and needing more care, the health care field is one of the best places to start a business, and will likely stay that way for many years to come.

It’s no secret that the United States has a nursing shortage, one that promises to grow to alarming proportions. Too many nurses are retiring, and too few are entering the profession. To compound the problem, within the next 5 to 10 years, over 76 million Baby Boomers are scheduled to retire from the workforce, with only about 44 million Generation X'ers available to pick up the slack. This will soon place unprecedented demands for services on a health system that is already stretched thin.

This shortage of allied health care professionals, especially nurses have a created a new boom to the nursing agency nursing agency registry business, supplemental staffing agency for medical professionals, permanent placement medical recruiter, or starting a business in home care and staffing pool. The medical staffing medical staffing industry will continue to grow because of the upcoming baby boomers, and the current supply of nurses are dwindling. The average age for nurses are in the forties, and they are not being replaced by the new generations. Entrepreneurs have made lucrative business in nursing agency , nursing registry, home care business, medical recruiter recruiting, or as independent contractor in their own field.

The time is now for entrepreneurs to start a nursing agency ,nursing registry business, operate a home care business, or as a medical recruiter or just become an independent health care contractor. By being an independent health care contractor, you are bypassing the agency and are self employed. Health care facilities are the clients. Home care are regulated by all levels of government from local to federal level. Home care levels of regulations depends on the category of service provided to clients. Home care services ranges from providing just companions or the more medically needed clients such as terminally ill clients. Home care services can be in the form of social service, non-medical, and medical services.


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