Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men

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'Men are largely missing out on one of the hottest professions in the U.S. right now: nursing.

For registered nurses alone, the Labor Department projects there will be 189,000 job openings each year for the next decade. But only 1 in 8 nurses are men.

There have long been efforts to rewrite the script around nursing — to push back on the idea that it's women's work. Now, the economy is helping, too.

With diminishing opportunities in male-dominated industries like manufacturing and software engineering, nursing has emerged as a stable alternative and a solid pathway to a middle-class life.

Nursing students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are already experiencing what it's like to be in demand.'