I thought it may be interesting to pass along some information curated by the Canadian Institute for Health Information; From a report entitled Regulated Nurses: Trends, 2003 to 2007 these are some of the interesting Ontario Registered Nurse (RN) numbers:
Only 4.5% of the entire Ontario RN workforce is male (Not surprised… only 3 guys in my class of 50)
The average age is 45.9 years (Hmm… I don’t want to say that’s old but…)
63.1% Ontarian RNs enjoy a full time position (Better than I expected, but still…)
63.4% Work in hospital (Probably what I’ll end up doing… but I think these #’s will change with the shift to more home care)
88.3% provide direct care (Likely related to the high number of hospital positions as staff nurses)
88.2% are employed by a single employer (I’d rather have one job thank you!)
68.2% are diploma prepared; 28.9% Baccalaureate; and 2.8% Masters/Doctoral (Very interesting… I wonder what the increased education requirements will do for this profession… I think good things!)
91.3% are Canadian trained (And proud of it!)
Click the link above for more information… it’s interesting.
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