7 Best Reasons to Get into Healthcare Right Now
February 6th, 2010 | 
Author: It’s not unusual to use a recession to make a major career change. While others are floundering, you can be advancing your career by going to school or pursing an entirely new path. These days, the healthcare industry is very popular – and with good reason! Healthcare is only of the only places that has added jobs in the last 2 months. Healthcare workers are also unable to be outsourced and will always been in demand as long as people are catching colds, breaking bones, and having babies.
There are countless reasons why a healthcare career might be right for you. Here are just a few:
1. Healthcare professionals are in demand.
Unlike almost every other industry today, healthcare is actually hiring! Over 50,000 jobs were added in January 2009, plus 29,000 more in February. Some of the most popular occupations were registered nurses, medical assistants, and primary care physicians.
2. There are tons of options.
No matter what sort of education or experience you have, you can apply yourself to a healthcare career. The thought of blood make you squeamish? Careers in healthcare administration or medical coding/billing involve little to no interaction with patients. Love interacting with people? Nurses and medical assistants are often the first people to see a patient when they come into a hospital or clinic. You’ll get tons of exposure to a large variety of patients. Because there are so many healthcare jobs, you’re bound to find one that suits your interests.
3. You don’t need an advanced degree.
Despite what you may think, most healthcare careers don’t require an advanced degree. Physicians actually make up only a small portion of healthcare professionals. There are dozens of careers that ask for just an associate’s or bachelor’s degree. Don’t let a perceived lack of education keep you from working in healthcare.
4. Room to advance.
Many healthcare jobs offer tons of room for advancement as well as chances to take on leadership roles. What’s more, many skills are transferable from one career to the next. Tired of your job as a medical assistant? Got back to school for your Bachelor of Science in Nursing to become a Registered Nurse! You’ll already have great experience and there’s a chance that many of your classes will feel like review.
5. You can expect job stability.
Unlike a need for big screen TVs and fancy cars, healthcare is always in demand no matter where the economy takes us. People will always get sick. Women will always give birth. Medical bills will always need processing. Because of this, healthcare workers can expect to have relatively stable careers. Of course, every region and facility is different, but even with downturns, healthcare professionals can expect to see their jobs remain necessary. What’s more, healthcare workers can’t be out-sourced. It would be impossible to treat or diagnose a patient from thousands of miles away.
6. It’s rewarding.
How do you feel after volunteering at your local homeless shelter, or participating in a mentor program? You feel great, right? How would you like to feel like that on a daily basis? Healthcare workers get to make a difference every day. You don’t have to be a trauma physician to change someone’s life. The nurse who takes an extra ten minutes to get to know her patients, or the rad tech who comforts a nervous patient can have an even greater impact than a surgeon.
7. It’s exciting.
You’re changing lives on a daily basis! How can that not be exciting? Many healthcare workers get to build their careers on excitement and adrenaline. This can be a fast-paced, challenging job where you get to do something different every day. Why sit at a desk when you can be taking vitals, deciphering x-rays, drawing blood, and so much more?
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If you are business saavy you may consider being on the administrative side of healthcare. Physicians are required to bill with special codes called CPT-4 codes that describe services that they provide to patients. There are also codes to describe every diagnosis.
In order for the physicians to obtain payment for services these codes must be submitted in a timely fashion to insurance companies and they must be within the scope of usual practices.
Insurance companies also deny payment to the physicians more often than not and they need people to fight for their money.
Administrators allow physicians to concentrate of helping patients without the nagging concern of redtape and paperwork.
There are also budgeting, managerial and operational issues in healthcare offices or other settings that are handled by these professionals.
You may consider obtaining a masters in heatlh administration. Please refer to http://www.ache.org.
First, I doubt that healthcare will become universal.
Second, I see no reason why you as a X-ray technician should lose pay…ompare it to salaries in France & other places where they have universal health care.
An option to consider is traveling overseas for your dental work. I am originally from Los Angeles, but have been living in Monterrey, Mexico for about 2 years now. I have had regular dental visits and am VERY impressed with the quality of the facilities and the doctors. The best part is that dental work is about 50% less expensive here than it is in the U.S! Monterrey, Mexico is just two hours south of Texas, so it is very easy to get to wherever you are. And, you can always combine your visit with a vacation! If this is something that interests you, check out http://www.travelforcare.com a Medical Travel facilitator that will help you with all the details.
I am from Canada where medical coverage is free for everyone,regardless of whether you work or not.
I am English and now live in California. Like most people I thought that there was a huge tax burden in Britain, but after coming here I now think that's not the case.We pay two forms of tax from our wages:Income tax and National insurance. Your income tax is tax like everywhere else, national insurance pays for your pension and healthcare. I have lived in England all my life up till now and I will fiercely defend our healthcare system, the NHS (national health service). In thanks largely to the effort of our heroic doctors and nurses (and all other staff) the NHS survives….the healthcare is nothing like as bad as people make out, and there are no long waiting lists anymore (now if you're waiting more than six months for routine surgery they'll send you abroad to have it done, paid for of course). No-one pays anything for medical care and the one reason it's under stress (As a healthcare proffesional I know this from experience) is the fact that something built as a national health service is used as a world health service. People come to the UK from all over Europe to take advantage of the NHS and from all over the world. I would like to see treatment restricted to citizens/people who have paid at least 5 years national insurance contributions but at the same time I would never ever want to see anyone, citizen or not, turned away or denied medical care because of money. I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford health insurance in the US but the amount hospitals/doctors charge is disgusting and I don't really understand why people are so opposed to universal health care, can you really put a price on life?
By the way income tax is 20% of anything you earn over about 5 and a half thouse pounds ($11k) and national insurance is 11% of anything you earn over 84pounds a week ($160) And people have the option of private healthcare in england too if they want to pay for it
Hospitals carry liability insurance for their nurses. It is unlikely that a nurse will get sued unless she/he does something very deliberate and intentional to harm a patient.
That would probably be private information. HMO's have fee schedules that list what they allow for certain procedures, but that's probably not available except to providers. They don't "look at information" – they have set schedules, for the most part.
Why would that be important to you in looking for a possible career??
Maybe 5 or 10 minutes on the phone to make an appointment and in the same day if it's an emergency. If it's not an emergency then about a week.
Since the drug companies became privatized, there have been far, far less cures than when it was government controlled. Drug companies only want symptom relievers, since they will be reused over and over, whereas cures are not needed once the problem is gone. No money in cures. Drug companies are more interested in Marketing. Obscene amounts go into marketing. At least thousands if not millions are spent on just pens, clocks, notepads, lunches, clipboards, and a ton of little practically useless stuff they give away for the sole purpose of having the name all around the dr. You should go in a dr's office and just look at the amount of stuff with a drug name on it. That is only a small fraction. The government should really take back the pharmaceutical industry, that would definitely lower regular health insurance prices.
If universal health care is brought in, it doesn't mean you can't get regular health insurance. Considering how very little the health insurances pay out ($0.67 on a $10 charge) I highly doubt that the doctors income would be impacted negatively.
I think universal health care would be a great thing. And this is coming from someone who would probably have to find a new job. You don't see the people who come in who don't have to money to get seen. People who are already sick, dying, and still getting harassed about payments. There are already tons of people who die because they just didn't have the money for a doctor. What is a couple of days wait to that?
6 months is quite far fetched. I was in the military, and the same type of system ran. Health care was FREE and there were no massive wait times.
The only valid complaint that I have heard is that you would not always be able to see the same doctor. Not exactly a big deal.
It could very well be that some doctors could choose to take more regular health insurance patients, and then you could have one of those for your regular doctor.
As atrocious as regular health insurance is, most doctors take most of them. Why? To boost the number of patients. Universal health care could work the same way.
Universal health care will certainly not stop the advancement of medicine. With a little less fear involved, it may even enhance it. Besides, that sounds an awful lot like you want to believe the US is the only place in the world who has helped medicine. Nope.
Would you give up your career to keep universal health care from coming?
That's how strongly I support it.