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Why can’t I find a job?

Have you been asking yourself this question over and over again? Well, Searching for a new job can be very difficult and very frustrating especially if you decide to apply for non recession proof jobs.

Have you ever considered a nursing career?

According to CareerBuilder.com “health care remains strong adding more than 196,000 jobs so far this year.  All sectors of the health care industry experienced growth from January to July 2008….Hospitals added 71,300 positions, while nursing and residential care facilities grew by 18,200 jobs.” Read Full Article

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Here’s a pretty good article highlighting the increasing demand for healthcare positions other than just doctors.  This increased need has subsequently led to increased opportunities in medical fields ranging from medical assistant to pharmacy technicians.

“You never know where your path is going to take you in healthcare, because there are just so many opportunities for growth.  People can continue to be practitioners or go into research. They can also go into the more entrepreneurial, business side of healthcare.”

Check here to read the full article

One of the more interesting parts of the article involves quotes about how the most sought-after medical professionals are multi-skilled workers who can do a variety of medical tasks.  The high demand isn’t allowing a lot of hospitals and medical organizations to wait for nurses and doctors to finish multiple years of schooling.  They need healthcare professionals now, making other health care careers all the more valuable and lucrative.

The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board recently sponsored research to assess how well the public understands the qualifications of the people helping pharmacists prepare prescriptions in pharmacies across the country. The results show that Americans assume that laws are in place requiring pharmacy technicians to be trained and certified. In addition, the vast majority of the public support the need for certification of the people who help licensed pharmacists dispense prescription medicines.

There are major misperceptions about the requirements for training and certification for pharmacy technicians.

• Incorrectly, 73% of the public accept as true that “pharmacy technicians are required by law to be trained and certified before they can help prepare prescriptions.” Only 9% of respondents recognize this as a false statement. The remaining 17% have no idea.
• A majority (58%] wrongly believe that “only licensed pharmacists are involved in dispensing drug prescriptions.” Only 26% recognize this as a false statement.
• Almost half (45%) accept as false the true statement that people without formal training are allowed to help pharmacists prepare prescriptions for patients. A third correctly judge this statement as true.
• Three-fourths of Americans assume that pharmacy technicians are required by law to be trained and certified before they can help prepare prescriptions.

The American public strongly supports state regulations that require the training and certification of pharmacy technicians.

• A strong consensus of 91% of the public agrees that state regulations are in order, including 76% who strongly agree.
• At the same time, consumers support the idea of employers only hiring pharmacy technicians who are certified (92% agree with this approach, including 76% who strongly agree).
• The strength of this support for certification of pharmacy technicians is best understood in the context of what people already assumed.
• Most people assumed that the people preparing prescriptions in a pharmacy were regulated by the state (87% agree) and assumed that drug prescriptions were being prepared by persons certified to do so (87% agree).

Note — Pharmacy technicians assist pharmacists in dispensing medications. The pharmacy technician is accountable to the supervising pharmacist who is legally responsible through state licensure for the care and safety of patients served by the pharmacy.

Medical Assistant: Profession Facts

• About 62 percent of medical assistants work in offices of physicians.
• Employment is projected to grow much faster than average, ranking medical assistants among the fastest growing occupations over the 2006-16 decade.

Medical Assistant: Profession Details

Medical assistants perform administrative and clinical tasks to keep the offices of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners running smoothly. They should not be confused with Physician assistants, who examine, diagnose, and treat patients under the direct supervision of a physician. (Physician assistants are discussed elsewhere in the Handbook.)

The duties of medical assistants vary from office to office, depending on the location and size of the practice and the practitioner’s specialty. In small practices, medical assistants usually do many different kinds of tasks, handling both administrative and clinical duties and reporting directly to an office manager, physician, or other health practitioner. Those in large practices tend to specialize in a particular area, under the supervision of department administrators.

Medical assistants who perform administrative tasks have many duties. They update and file patients’ medical records, fill out insurance forms, and arrange for hospital admissions and laboratory services. They also perform tasks less specific to medical settings, such as answering telephones, greeting patients, handling correspondence, scheduling appointments, and handling billing and bookkeeping.

Read More: Profession Training, & Outlook
Unitek’s Medical Assistant Program Detail

Have you ever felt like you wanted to help people? That you wanted to make a real difference to your community and do something extremely worthwhile? If these are the sorts of questions you answer yes to, then have you ever considered a nursing job?

Nursing is one of those professions which have its roots buried deep in history. Indeed there have always been people who looked after and cared for the sick or injured. In some cultures this would be a ‘medicine man’, in other cultures there were figures such as herbalists and the like. However, nursing only really became recognized as a formal profession relatively recently when Florence Nightingale founded what we now consider as the modern concept of nursing.

Of course, some people may instinctively tell themselves that they could never work in a nursing job because they are too squeamish, or because they wouldn’t be able to cope with the stresses of trying to cope with patients with life threatening diseases or injuries. Of course that may be the case, but this is only one side of nursing. There are many, many other aspects to the job which many people do not realize exist, for instance health or industrial nursing, public health nursing and private duty nursing.

In fact, the nursing domain extends even further than that - one such possible career path is in the nursing instructor field. Of course, before anyone can become a fully qualified nurse they must first go through the necessary training, education and study of both the theoretical and practical aspects of nursing. This in turn means that of course, there needs to be someone there to act as an instructor and tutor to the student nurses.

By working as a nursing instructor not only will you be able to directly help to train and educate a new generation of nurses, but you will also be indirectly helping your community by ensuring that the hospitals in your area have the most highly skilled nursing staff.

Most of your duties will revolve around the student nurses, for example, you will spend most of your working time demonstrating and teaching patient care in the classroom, as well as supervising the student nurses when delivering patient care in clinical units of the hospital. A nursing instructor is also responsible for conducting and supervising laboratory work and issuing assignments.

This is a very rewarding career path, and is essentially what used to be referred to as a ‘job for life’. Let’s just think about that, there will always be a need for individuals who are trained as caregivers, and therefore there will always be a need to the nursing instructors who offer help and guidance through that training. So as you can see, a career as a nursing instructor really is one of the most satisfying and worthwhile nursing jobs in the health care industry today.

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With employment growth rates on the rise, now is an excellent time to consider a nursing career as an Emergency Medical Technician or Paramedic. According to the US Department of Labor, EMT and paramedic employment is expected to grow by 19 percent between 2006 and 2016, faster than all other occupations. This means better than average job opportunities within an EMT career, especially with private ambulance services. There are many EMT training programs available to assist you in becoming industry-ready, including training at three different levels: EMT Basic, EMT Intermediate and EMT Paramedic. To begin an EMT training program, a high school diploma is typically required.

The EMT Basic program focuses on emergency skills related to respiratory, cardiac emergencies, trauma and patient assessment. Training typically is a combination of in-class time, as well as emergency room or ambulance time. The EMT Basic program will teach you how to manage bleeding, fractures, cardiac arrest, emergency childbirth and airway obstruction. You will learn how to use emergency equipment including splints, oxygen delivery systems, backboards, suction devices and stretchers. You much pass a practical and written exam to graduate from this EMT training program.

The EMT Intermediate program varies by state. The national program usually requires anywhere from 30 to 350 hours of training. In this EMT training, you would obtain advanced skills such as the use of some medications, advanced airway devices and intravenous fluids.

The EMT Paramedic program is the most advanced level of EMT training. You would receive training on physiology as well as anatomy, along with advanced medical skills. This program typically takes between 1 and 2 years, depending on the programs offered at the community college or technical school. This training often results in an associate’s degree. This EMT training prepares you to take the NREMT exam and results in certification as a paramedic. This training requires a broad range of coursework along with clinical and field experience.

Certification is required in all 50 states for all three EMT levels. Registration for the NREMT is also required in most states and the District of Columbia. Some states administer their own version of a certification exam, giving you the option to take either their exam or the NREMT. Recertification is required typically every 2 years to maintain certification.

EMT Training Details
US Department of Labor - EMT Training