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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
HAIPN seeks to address the demand for nursing education given the increasing need for Practical Nurses in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore and other parts of the world. Employment of LPNs is expected to grow faster than average for all occupations in response to the long-term care needs of an increasing elderly population and the general growth of healthcare. This growth is in response to an increasing number of older persons with functional disabilities, consumer preference for care in the home and technological advances that make it possible to bring increasingly complex treatments into the home. Consequently, employment of LPNs is projected to grow faster than average as healthcare expands outside the traditional hospital setting. Such facilities will offer the most new jobs for LPNs as the number of aged and disabled persons in need of long-term care rises. In addition to caring for the aged and the disabled, LPNs in nursing care facilities will care for the increasing number of patients who will have been discharged from the hospital, but have not recovered enough to return home.
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