Get Rich Being A Nurse?

Warning! If you do not want to work don't go tocost for home-based or assisted living is around
school to become a Licensed Practical Nurse. It$35,000 annually. So if Medicaid and insurance aren't
sounds bad when I say it that way but actually it's agoing to pay the costs then who is? The sad truth is
good thing. If you are the sort of person who likesthat many families who wish to care for there
to help people and you have a strong stomach thenparents or siblings simply can't afford to and are
you will always have a well paying job.forced to put there elderly into a long term care
Why do I say that? Well the thing is a nurse;facility where Medicaid will cover the cost.
especially LPNs and LPs are needed in just aboutSo what does this mean for a nurse. It means quite
every aspect of the healthcare industry. With ourfrankly that your job is more than secure for the
baby boomer generation getting older the hospitalsnext couple of decades. It also means that assisted
and nursing homes over the next decade will becomeliving facilities and long term care facilities are going to
more and more crowded. Of course along with themake a killing in the decades to come.
growth in patients there will be a growth in the needPutting your personal feelings aside and looking at the
for health care professionals to care for the sick andbusiness side of things... if you get in with the right
elderly.company at the ground floor you could be in for a lot
Besides the general nursing area there are still manyof pay raises in your future. If you want to do some
other jobs for LPNs and CPNs. There is a huge needcalculations yourself... For assisted living at $35,000
for in home health care professionals willing to dealaverage x 100 residents in an assisted living facility =
with the elderly. Other areas LPNs are needed include$3.5 Million dollars a year. So take what you know of
physician's offices, residential care facilities, schools,your assisted living facility and figure out about what
temporary nurse agencies, traveling nurse agenciesyour facility is making. Also keep in mind that this is
and government agencies. As you can see theonly the average. If you work in a high-class facility
choices for a place to work are not few and farthey are probably charging double that cost.
between.If you wan to calculate how much a full time
So besides the many choices of places and ways tolong-term care facility is bringing in... the average
work as a nurse why is the nursing professionannual cost is $80,000. Times that by 100 residents
expected to grow so much? The truth is theand you have $8,000,000 in income a year.
insurance industry and Medicaid has left no otherHow much are they paying you? How much do you
avenue. As baby boomers grow older someone haswant to get paid? Trust me if you have made the
to take care of them. The important fact here isdecision to become a LPN or NP you are going to
that insurance companies and Medicaid except inmake some good money in the years to come. You
isolated instances doesn't cover the cost of assistedhave made a good choice for your future and the
living or of home-based health care. The averagefuture of your family.