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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
The quotes below are about this issue:
General Workforce Shortage: Many employers are having difficulty filling positions, particularly for LPNs, advanced practice and specialty, and clinical lab careers.
| "I don't want to undermine the wage, but the reality is we are getting paid a lot less. So, we are seeing people leaving the laboratory to go into nursing. That's a big issue for us in the laboratory profession." | Central |
| "Personally, we don't see a lot of issues with hiring RNs, it's LPNs that are more difficult to find. Is there data on how many LPNs keep going with their education? Because that's the biggest issue—we can keep an LPN for a little bit of time while they're planning to become an RN or are actually in school to be an RN. But I no longer see LPNs that want it to be a career. And so, in the nursing homes, we really struggle with keeping LPNs because a lot of people go on with their education, which is great, but we can't afford to have a floor full of RNs." | Central |
| "The whole information technology and electronic medical records, those information technology specialists—that's an area where we are also competing with private non-health-care industry. And just being able to afford to retain people in those job families—whether it be data gathering, or implementing and building the electronic medical record—it's really become a critical job family for us. And we're also starting to hear about the shortage that's anticipated in the coding area with the implementation of ICD-10. So, those are some of the job families that are kind of on our radar right now for the next one to three years." | Central |