In: Operations Management
Develop a 5-year forecast of occupational market conditions for nurses. Explain your work. (for next 5 years)
As per the current situation Health care industries should be developed a lot more .
Let us take India as an example.
At present India has 2,000 nursing diploma schools, 1,200 nursing degree schools and 281 MSc nursing colleges. Annually, the country produces around 60,000 nurses. India has a capacity to train 79,850 diploma nurses, 41,650 graduate nurses and 1,940 postgraduate nurses per year.
The table shows the consolidate numbers of nurses per year in India.
Forecast of occupational market conditions for nurses :
Diploma Nurses /year |
79850 |
Graduate Nurses/year |
41650 |
Post graduate Nurses/year |
1940 |
Total/year |
123440 |
As the number of institutions are increasing 10 % every year it is expected that the number of students may also increase in the nursing field.
YEAR |
Diploma Nurses |
Graduate Nurses |
Post graduate Nurses |
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2020 |
79850 |
41650 |
1940 |
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2021 |
87835 |
45815 |
2134 |
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2022 |
96619 |
50397 |
2347 |
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2023 |
106281 |
55437 |
2582 |
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2024 |
116909 |
60981 |
2840 |
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2025 |
128600 |
67079 |
3124 |
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Total |
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For a population of 130 crore peoples only these many number of nurses were grauated every year which a quite great shortge.
India still needs three time the nurses as per the projected data.
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