| By the year 2014 - just eight years away - there will | | | | Whether you've just started your nursing career, are |
| be 3.6 million new jobs available in the medical | | | | returning to work after a hiatus, or are switching to a |
| profession, and the bulk of those jobs - about 60% | | | | career in nursing as a second career, take a look at |
| of them - will be open to those with nursing degrees | | | | some of the opportunities that are open to you with |
| of one kind or another. The demand for registered | | | | a nursing degree. |
| nurses is highest - the Bureau of Labor Statistics | | | | Pediatric Home Health Care is one of the growing |
| estimates that the number of jobs available for | | | | fields for those with nursing degrees. Every state in |
| registered nurses will rise by 27% by 2014 - but | | | | the Union now has some sort of Early Intervention |
| there will also be increased opportunities for certified | | | | program that identifies children under the age of |
| nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses, nurse | | | | three years with special needs. Pediatric home health |
| practitioners, physician's assistants and those in | | | | care gives you the opportunity to work with children |
| medical technical fields like phlebotomy and | | | | and parents and make a real difference in their lives. |
| pulmonology. | | | | Elder Home Health Care is the other end of the |
| And if you thought that the only jobs available for | | | | spectrum. The ‘aging of America' means that |
| nurses were in hospitals and medical facilities, the | | | | more and more people require a little bit of help to |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics has more news for you. | | | | remain in their homes. Nursing assistants, registered |
| Less than 60% of registered nurses work in a | | | | nurses and licensed nurses can provide that little bit |
| hospital. A nursing degree opens doors of opportunity | | | | extra that will allow a senior citizen to maintain a |
| into so many fields that it's easily one of the most | | | | higher quality of life and remain at home when all |
| versatile and useful degrees that you can acquire. Not | | | | they need is a few hours of medical care a day or |
| only that - a nursing degree appeals to a wide range | | | | week. |
| of people. According to the BLS, about 20% of | | | | Working in a Blood Donor Center is an option that |
| those entering the nursing workforce are older | | | | makes you part of the life-saving network. There's |
| workers starting on a second career. Many of them | | | | more to blood donor centers than just starting IVs. |
| have been attracted by rising salaries triggered by | | | | Nurses who specialize in pharesis can command high |
| the nursing shortage, but for many of them, a | | | | salaries, and a nurse working in the blood collection |
| nursing degree is a chance to do something that | | | | field can be a valuable community organizer as well as |
| makes them feel good. | | | | a medical practitioner. |