Nursing is right now where computer science was six years ago.
Obviously there are differences, like nursing requires physical action and is harder to automate with ai. But from a labor market standpoint, it looks exactly the same.
Nursing is in a place right now where it's been known as a lucrative field for a while so it didn't just pop up on the scene out of nowhere. It's been steadily building steam for the past decades, especially as private equity is moved to reduce doctors and bring in more NPRs. Even though more and more people have been going into it and it's been getting more competitive, it's remained in demand largely thanks to the ever-aging population (at least in the US). But now with so many other fields coming under threat, the push to go into nursing has really blown up.
Everyone's talking about it like nobody's talking about it, everyone's saying just go into nursing! It's just like I remember computer science being in the 2010s, everyone talking about it yet nobody talking about it. The problem is, that the population is close to the inflection point with regard to aging, and once we cross that point we'll be moving in a different direction than we have demographically for many decades. There's no guarantee that the old adage of healthcare always being in demand is going to be true once the number of sick old people starts to diminish relative to the number of working people.
Personally I'm calling it right now, go ahead and call the remind me bot, in 4 years maybe five or six, nursing is going to be super oversaturated people are going to be losing their jobs left and right, burning their degrees from marshmallows.