Job prospects Occupational Health Nurse in Manitoba

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Job opportunities in Manitoba

These outlooks were updated on November 29, 2023.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be very good for Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses (NOC 31301) in Manitoba for the 2023-2025 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to several new positions.
• A moderate number of positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• The provincial government announced record spending for health care in 2023, including a $1.2B multi-year capital campaign that will add capacity to nine health care facilities across the province.
• In 2022, Manitoba announced plans hire 2,000 new health care workers, and in 2023 committed $123M to recruitment initiatives specifically for nurses. The province also began recruiting internationally, with 240 job offers extended to nurses in the Philippines.
• Manitoba continues to face a nursing shortage with over 2,800 vacancies across the province, as of August 2023. As a result, nurses are working significant amounts of overtime, with more than one million hours logged in 2022.
• Shortages are particularly acute in rural communities, where they have resulted in several temporary and indefinite health centre and emergency department closures in recent years.
• Expansions to post-secondary programs have resulted in additional training seats for licensed practical nurses.

Here are some key facts about Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses in Manitoba:

• Approximately 14,200 people work in this occupation.
• Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Hospitals (NAICS 622): 73%
  • Nursing and residential care facilities (NAICS 623): 13%
  • Ambulatory health care services (NAICS 621): 9%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 69% compared to 81% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 31% compared to 19% for all occupations
• 71% of registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses work all year, while 28% work only part of the year, compared to 65% and 35% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 45 weeks compared to 43 weeks for all occupations.
• Less than 5% of registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses are self-employed compared to an average of 12% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 12% compared to 53% for all occupations
  • Women: 88% compared to 47% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: less than 5% compared to 31% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: less than 5% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 32% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 56% compared to 20% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: 7% compared to 8% for all occupations

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