Do you think Nurses or Physician's Assistants will find more opportunities?

Either one in greater demand? Either a more comfortable job than the other in the long run?

Thanks :)

More opportunity for Nurses, but there are opportunities for PA also. PA is a more "comfortable" job. As a PA, you are like a medical doctor. You see patients and diagnose. You also get to prescribe medicine. However, you are under the supervision of a MD. With Nurse, you get to stick IV, give shots, draw blood, and cannot prescribe medicine. I don't think that as a Nurse, you are allowed to make diagnoses either or give medical advise because you don't have the training. There's a difference in education. For Nursing, an Associate degree from a junior college is suffice as long as you pass the Nursing License exam. For PA, it's a Masters program lasting anywhere from 2-3 years. PA also gets paid more. It depends on how much you want to do and how much training you are willing to undergo. The only way for a Nurse to be like a PA is for you to get your Masters in Nursing to become a Nurse Practitioner. Then you get to see patients, diagnose and prescribe medicine, also under supervision of an MD. There's a lot of overlap of responsibilities between a NP and PA. I believe though that a PA still gets paid more than NP. Check out salary.com for salary information.

They are in tremendous demand. You will never have a problem finding a job in that field. You will probably work 60 hours a week, but you'll make a good living.

either one would have no problem finding employment. PAs can do more, so might be more deisrable. small towns that can't hire as many doctors use PAs to help the doctors.

Both are in great demand - physician's assisants require more schooling (college degree + other credentials needed) and in most cases are allowed to write prescriptions - whereas a nurse must pass the State Board exam and cannot write Rx's ... suggestion - if you decide to take the nurse route and not the P.A. - go for RN - don't stop with LPN, you will have more opportunities and better pay.

Nurses are definitely in high demand, but it also depends on the location. I'm an RN and live in MA and I had a hard time trying to get interviews. It took over 3 months before I got my first job. It's been 2 years and I'm looking for a new job, and I'm STILL looking. It's a lot harder than people said it would be. But I'm sure other states may be different.