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Research, trends, tips Men gain ground in nursing careers


Last year’s catchy economic phrase was “mancession,” as it looked like companies were lopping men off their employment rolls and keeping lesser-paid women in an effort to cut back and keep their businesses afloat.


Now it looks like that trend has made an about-face. According to a new analysis of federal employment data from the Pew Research Center, men are regaining jobs at a faster clip and women are losing them. Not only that, the Pew study found that men are making inroads in industries long dominated by women — like nursing. There has been a steady increase over the past decade in the percentage of men earning nursing degrees, according to federal data on the number of people completing nursing programs nationwide. “Men who have spent the past few years retraining for more in-demand


Nathan Lowder, BSN, RN, CEN, is emergency department manager at Franciscan St. Francis Health.


RN [registered nurse] jobs are starting to hit the work force,” said Rob Sentz, spokesperson at economic analysis firm Economic Modeling Specialists. The percentage of male nurses climbed from 9.5 percent in 2003 to 12.2 percent this year, according to the firm’s


preliminary findings. Opportunities for men are increasing as the health care industry expands so it can accommodate America’s growing elderly population, said Lydia Ostermeier, president of the National Association of Health Care Recruiters. Also, registered nurses who have delayed retirement for financial reasons will be leaving the profession, making way for new hires, she noted. “I just convinced my son to change his major


to nursing,” said Ostermeier, who also is the director of nursing administration at Indiana University Health. “There is more earnings potential as RNs quickly can move on to jobs like clinical managers.”


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