January 16, 2006

Jobs that pay

In Michigan this year, jobs are plentiful if you're in -- accounting, health care, sales, information technology and engineering. Nursing is also a field with plentiful jobs. Wayne State University 's college of nursing is trying to churn out nurses as fast as possible. The state predicts that there will be a 7,000-nurse shortage in Michigan by 2010 and an 18,000-nurse shortage in Michigan by 2015. The university is struggling to fill positions for nursing faculty, says Jim McFarlin, information officer at WSU's College of Nursing . "There's a huge nursing crisis in the state of Michigan ," he said. "There are hundreds of openings for nurses in metro Detroit . We can't begin to accommodate the response."

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