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19/03/2010
Few Unemployed Nurses: HSE
After the Health Service Executive (HSE) carried out a survey last year to see how nurses who graduated from college in 2008 had progressed, it has emerged that just 3% are not in work.
The HSE looked at 42% of the 1,421 graduates who completed a degree course in general, psychiatric or intellectual disability nursing in 2008 and made the findings - which were this week described as positive and encouraging - by the HSE's office of the nursing services director.
Three-quarters of the nurses were employed in the public or voluntary health sector, with the majority (68%) employed in acute hospitals.
Of the 558 who started work in Ireland as a registered nurse, 235 were employed within the Dublin area.
It found that 456 (88%) had a full-time position, working between 37.5 to 39 hours or more per week
Only 4% were seeking work as a registered nurse abroad while 5% were involved in further education, mostly nursing related.
Almost all of the nurses (93%) felt they were prepared for their initial position as a nurse.
It is just four years ago since nursing in Ireland became a graduate profession when the first group of nurses emerged with their degrees having completed a four-year programme.
The Department of Health and Children through workforce planning processes determined the number of designated course places in BSc undergraduate programmes in nursing/midwifery and in 2008, 1,820 students commenced a degree programme in nursing/midwifery.
(BMcC/GK)
The HSE looked at 42% of the 1,421 graduates who completed a degree course in general, psychiatric or intellectual disability nursing in 2008 and made the findings - which were this week described as positive and encouraging - by the HSE's office of the nursing services director.
Three-quarters of the nurses were employed in the public or voluntary health sector, with the majority (68%) employed in acute hospitals.
Of the 558 who started work in Ireland as a registered nurse, 235 were employed within the Dublin area.
It found that 456 (88%) had a full-time position, working between 37.5 to 39 hours or more per week
Only 4% were seeking work as a registered nurse abroad while 5% were involved in further education, mostly nursing related.
Almost all of the nurses (93%) felt they were prepared for their initial position as a nurse.
It is just four years ago since nursing in Ireland became a graduate profession when the first group of nurses emerged with their degrees having completed a four-year programme.
The Department of Health and Children through workforce planning processes determined the number of designated course places in BSc undergraduate programmes in nursing/midwifery and in 2008, 1,820 students commenced a degree programme in nursing/midwifery.
(BMcC/GK)
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