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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care
They are talking about this topic: Workforce Trends & Challenges
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Advanced Practice and Specialties: There is growing demand for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). Rural facilities, in particular, have difficulty recruiting an adequate number of NPs and PAs. There is also a growing need for specialty RNs, such as those specializing in diabetic and neonatal care.
| "From what I hear, in our health system, that's the wave right now—to get nurses in a master's program or other people to go into a PA program. You know, where are the programs? I know: Duluth. And I just read that [non-MnSCU college] is going to start up a PA program. I don't know where that college is, and whether they'll start the program or not. But I've heard that it's a possibility." | Central |
| "It has to be the answer in more rural areas. It's just far too difficult to recruit physicians into rural communities and the rural lifestyle after they've been absorbed within large urban areas as a part of medical school. It just costs too much to pull them out. And so PAs and NPs—with telemedicine connections—are in the future." | Central |