Want a Career with Job Security Try the Medical Field
From medical assistants to physicians the medical field has always offered wonderful career opportunities. This activity field will always provide job security and great income as the demand is growing so there won’t be any problems in the future finding a need for the medical professional.
There are many different activities in this large field and they are all well paid so one can chose one convenient to his needs.
Another important point that will help decide in choosing a medical career is that one can choose from a lot of activities in the field that offer flexible time and some days per week to work and great payment. Of course, there are also full time jobs and nigh and emergencies careers for people that consider suited for these jobs, jobs witch come with great compensations but really need dedicated persons for it.
Starting with medical assistant to registered nurses, from psychologists and psychiatrists to social workers all are in great demand and will be needed as long as humanity will last.
The salary is more than motivating, the program also but many people get into a medical career for many different motivations. Some want to know themselves and how their body functions in order to cure people or they even suffer from diseases that they hope one day will find a cure. Some really have a heart for social working; some love the clean working conditions and the respect of the people for what they are doing. The most gifted persons in the field combine the psychic care and encouragements to their patient to the medications prescribed. These fields surely offer many great rewards and extreme contentment on all plans, from social to spiritual and financial ones.
In pediatrics, the medical field is wide open. Careers for child psychologists and nurses are available and of course, physicians who are ready to go to work in private practice or as an important part of a family group practice will be pleasantly surprised with their working environments in most cases.
Medical Assistants are responsible for administrative and clinical tasks. These assistants are responsible for keeping health care offices running smoothly. The duties of medical assistants vary from office to office. Some of the tasks performed medical assistants include taking vital signs, preparing patients for examinations, or assisting doctors with examinations. Medical assistants also collect specimens, administer medication as authorized by a physician and telephone prescriptions to pharmacies. They are also responsible for taking blood, changing sutures and dressing, and keeping examination rooms clean and tidy.
Medical assistants can move up in their careers by specializing in particular healthcare areas. There are also advancement opportunities by moving up to office manager. With additional certification and education, medical assistants can advance to other health care jobs such as nursing. Healthcare employers prefer graduates of formal programs in medical assisting. Such programs are offered in vocational-technical high schools, postsecondary vocational schools, and community and junior colleges. Postsecondary programs usually last 1-year, resulting in a certificate or diploma, or 2 years, resulting in an associate degree.
Nurses are hands-on health professionals who provide focused and highly personalized care. The field has a wide range of career opportunities, ranging from entry-level practitioner to doctoral-level researcher. Although an entry-level nurse can find a job with a two-year RN degree, there is a growing national movement to require all nurses to hold a BSN. An increasing number of nursing schools are offering accelerated bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. There also are a growing number of RN-to-MSN and MSN-to-Ph.D. programs, designed to meet the increasing demand for more highly skilled nurses in the workforce.
In addition, nursing has four Advanced Practice clinical professions, each of which requires a master’s degree and separate certification: Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse, Anesthetist, Nurse-Midwife and Nurse Practitioner.
Very good employment opportunities are expected for pharmacists over the 2000-10 period because the number of degrees granted in pharmacy are not expected to be as numerous as the number of job openings created by employment growth and the need to replace pharmacists who retire. Pharmacy is the third largest health profession in the United States, and pharmacists are consistently ranked as one of the most highly trusted professionals. They care for patients, dispense medications and monitor patient health and progress to maximize their response to the medication. Pharmacists also lend their expertise on the composition of drugs, including their chemical, biological, and physical properties and their manufacture and use. Thank a pharmacist for ensuring your medication’s strength and purity, and for assuring that drugs don’t interact in a harmful way.
Dermatology offers registered nurses, PAs and medical techs many possibilities and often the dermatology offices are closed either on Monday or Friday which again, offers appeal. Dermatologists draw good salaries and career minded physicians can work alone in private practice or in a group.
If these few examples of jobs in this field convinced you, move further and see what you have to do next.
Beginning your search for a career, look online at the Occupational Handbook placed online by the US Labor board and see if you can find a career that’s not only in high demand but one which will satisfy your long term goals for salary and educational requirements. Be familiar with your career opportunities before you lock yourself into a permanent career choice.
Career planning programs are designed to help you choose a medical specialty and select and apply to a residency program. This four-phase process will guide you through the elements of career planning, including self-understanding, exploring a variety of medical careers, and finally choosing a specialty to meet your career objectives.
There are several colleges that train students for careers such as Pharmacy Technician, Medical Assistant, Medical Billing/ Coding Specialist, Clinical Research and many others. College’s focus is not just on getting through the course material, but to make students “industry-ready”.
Career training can sometimes cost money, and especially degrees can cost significantly. There are scholarship websites to help you get the degree you want, and there are state programs available to help you pay for other types of career training.
Josh Stone
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If the medical field is Not for me, should I still pursue a degree in that field for job security?
There are lots of jobs where I live for nurses and medical assistants. I live in Michigan and it is bad here. Many people are losing jobs, including many at my work place. I have no degree and work at a bank. Should I pursue a career in the medical field for the job security even though I don’t think it’s for me?
Honestly? NO.
Look again at all those jobs for nurses & medical assistants. Do they require an applicant to have experience? Are there a lot of other applicants for those jobs? Schools like to say that these careers are growing…and they are, but the amount of graduates those same schools spit out every year or even every few months outweighs the opportunity. Employers are then faced with several applicants & tend to go for those who have more experience or for ones who will start for very little pay because of a lack of experience.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, there is no such thing as job security in any profession in these hard times. You have to give your all in your job to have any kind of security & you can’t do this (at least not for long) in a job that you feel isn’t for you. It will show in your work that you don’t like it & employers will start to look for something better.
You will find that in time you’ll feel it was a waste of time & money to go through schooling for something you knew from the start wasn’t a good fit. Give it some more thought before you invest in a career. Maybe you could go into health care management if you’re more into the business side but like the idea of an ever growing field.
Good luck!
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I can relate. I live in Mi too. I dont like needles and blood, but yet the medical field to me seems the safest!!!!….I dont want to do something I will feel uncomfortable with.
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If you have no interest in it, you will be miserable. Nursing is a miserable job even if you like it. You have to love it because there’s a lot of crap to endure. Why not see if you can get a job in a hospital as an orderly or a patient care technician first and then see if you have any interest before you invest in a degree.
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Timelady says it best. Don’t go into nursing unless you are one of those ‘born nurses’ and actually WANT to be a nurse. If you go into it for the money and job security, you will be unhappy and either burn out or leave after a few years anyway, wasting your degree. That’s one reason why there is always a nursing shortage.
Nurses often cannot get fulltime work, and will work 2 or 3 part time jobs just to get full time wages. It’s cheaper to keep nurses as PT staff with less benefits. There may be ‘lots of jobs’ but how many are FT?
Medical assisting *generally* is not worth the tuition you pay, the job you do, and income that you get. Many people say that they cannot find jobs. I don’t know about you, but here in Canada most clinics hire a receptionist and an LPN. The receptionist doesn’t require much pay, but they don’t do much. Most LPNs now have a 2 year diploma in most provinces, and are trained to do much more than MAs. Maybe it’s different in the US, but it’s something to consider. I know lots of American MAs who say they paid $20,000 tuition and can’t find jobs.
So, NO, do not enter the medical field in either of these jobs just for the money and job security.
I’d consider becoming an accountant, advisor, etc. instead if you like the business/fiancial industry. The global economy may be nasty, but it will eventually rebound. I’m in Canada, where it’s not as bad as the US (knock on wood), and things are expected to bounce back. By the time you get out of school, people will want to be getting their fiancial needs in order. They will likely be more cautious after a recession, and call someone like you to help them keep on top of things.
It’s not like nobody has never gone into healthcare for job security. Nobody will fault you. People do it. You could job shadow and see if you like it. Or you can take a part time position in a care home if they will train you on the job. In Canada, we have Health Care Aides/Special Care Aids/Continuing Care Assistants. These are like nurse’s aides. This is a 8-10 month (average) program. It seems like in the US you can become what’s called a CNA (similar idea but with much less education and training) in something like 5 weeks to 3 months. If that’s true (?) then you could take a quick course and then work as a CNA to see if you like it.
Here, new LPNs in most provinces now must have 2 year diplomas. If you can become an LPN in the US, where I *think* the training is only 1 year, you might consider that.
On the bright side, many people hate their jobs anyway. If you work as a nurse, you typically will at least get paid well. And you may be able to use your education to work in another area. And you may qualifiy for funding.
In the end, I say not a good idea, but it’s entirely up to you. You know your sitution best. It may work out. Sit down and do some soul searching while researching the field.
Good luck!
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