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Study: Nursing remains a recession-resilient career
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
There have been several recessions in our country’s history, but most think about the Great Depression that ended the roaring 1920s – a time when unemployment was at 25 percent for many years. There were expanded needs for rural nurses, but no money to hire them. Voluntary agencies who hired nurses were dependant on philanthropic support which had dried up. A majority of nurses worked in private duty and as the crisis hit their clientele, demand for their services sharply dropped.
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