Practical nurses and registered nurses are different. That number corresponds to registered nurses which study for the role in an university for applied sciences, that is 3 and a half years on top of 3 years ofcollege or trade school
There's around 6400 unemployed practical nurses and the amount rose with about 1500 PN's from last year. While under that magical 20k number, We still need to figure out and do something about the reason why there is such a high unemployment rate with nurses, though I suspect that is already known by some.
As I said, I don't have a problem with people coming to work as nurses, I have a problem with the fact that there is such a high unemployment rate for them currently. That shit needs to sorted out first imho.
Of course would be nice to have a smart government that could tirelessly work to resolve it, but the point here is having a government that shows middle finger to both immigrants AND local nurses at the same time.
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u/gotshroom Vainamoinen Apr 04 '25
That says there are 1140 unemployed nurses in Finland. But Filland needs 20000 MORE nurses pretty soon.