b'CAREERS GUIDE|Nursing is going to infinity and beyond in 2021. The beauty of the nursing profession is that it is forever expanding into many different roles.positions. A survey conducted in 2018residency, according toAANPs (Americanquick fire challenges which give nurses an reported that there were 31 thousand travel- Academy Of Nurse Practitioners) findingsopportunity to pitch their innovative ideas ing nurses working nationwide. In 2020 thosepublished in 2019.The PCP shortage canfor a chance to win seed money to bring their numbers doubled and are projected to grow asespecially be seen in rural areas. At the sameideas into reality. Technological advances COVID-19 surges.time, Baby Boomers are aging, and the num- in healthcare are growing daily. Now is the ber of those 65 and older is estimated totime for nurses to improve patient care and COVID-19 VACCINE ADMIRATION AND PCRreach55 million in 2021, according to AARP. share their ideas for profit.TESTING The number of NPs in the US toppedAlthough, 2020 The Year Of The Nurse, For nurses who are feeling burnt out, or on27,000 nearly double the number in 2010.may bring with it much chaos, it opened the verge of retirement, COVID-19 PCRAnnually, NPs complete more than 1 bil- the door for many possibilities. As they say, testing and COVID-19 vaccine adminis- lion patient visits. California and Michiganthings can only get better. Nurses are the ones tration prove to be good temporary careergranted Nurse Practitioner full practicewho can certainly create a brighter future for alternatives. However, the work may be onauthority in 2020. Currently 28 states offerhealthcare and better patient outcomes.a contract basis and or short term. Manynurse practitioners full practice author-companies like Curative, Inc. and Optumity. More and more states are followingRESOURCESare offering nurses up to 60 dollars an hourthe trend. The UCA predicts that staffinghttp://blog.diversitynursing.com/blog/with a rapid orientation.models relying on NPs and PAs will pre- nurse-innovators-the-future-of-healthcaredominate as the primary care physicianhttps://www.myamericannurse.com/NURSE EDUCATORSdeficit continues and more states legis- innovation-needs-nurses/With a surge in nursing shortages, comeslate enhanced scope of practices for thesehttps://www.aacnnursing.org/with it a great need for nurse educators. Theadvanced practice clinicians. news-information/fact-sheets/AACN reports that there is an increasingnursing-faculty-shortagenumber of nurse faculty shortages across theNURSE ANESTHETISTShttps://www.nursingjobs.com/news-re-country. Budget constraints, an aging fac- COVID-19 increased the need for ventilatorsources/which-nursing-specialties-will-ulty, and increasing job competition fromsupport in patient care, which also increasedbe-in-demand-in-2021/clinical sites have contributed to the crisis. the need for nurse anesthetists. By far, nursehttps://bhw.hrsa.gov/data-research/anesthetists are the highest paid nurses in theaccess-data-tools/national-sample-sur-EXPANSION IN THE NURSE PRACTITIONERnursing profession. The projected growth forvey-registered-nursesROLE, TELEHEALTH BOOM AND MORE CRNAs is also 45 percent from 2019-2029. https://khn.org/news/highly-paid-travel-The overall employment of nurse prac- ing-nurses-fill-staffing-shortages-during-titioners is projected to grow 45 percentNURSING INNOVATORS: THE FUTURE ANDcovid-pandemic/from 2019-2029. Nurse Practitioner rolesBEYOND https://www.simplyhired.com/in telemedicine and telehealth will con- There has been no other time in health- search?q=covid+testing+rn&job=Szv-tinue to boom in 2021 and into the future.care than 2020 that exposed us to what weVDO7e1GTlJO8fpKKmROoNVY-With a greater number of people sufferingcould do better. Nurses on the frontlines inO4v73HzzmvyY1J3cr_xq6IKWrcSQfrom mental health issues, there will alsohealthcare witnessed what worked and whathttps://www.americanmobile.com/nurse-be a greater need for mental health nursedidnt. The agency for Healthcare Researchzone/nursing-news/states-change-nurse-practitioners.and Quality (AHRQ) defines innovationlicensing-for-covid-19-response/In many communities, there is a decreaseas a new way of doing things to improvehttps://www.bls.gov/OOH/healthcare/in physicians and healthcare providers. Onlyhealthcare delivery.nurse-anesthetists-nurse-midwives-and-8 percent of physicians enter a primary-careCompanies like Johnson & Johnson offernurse-practitioners.htm#tab-66 CAREERS GUIDE |2021| www.elitecme.com'