Also sought after, due in part to the rapid growth of same-day surgery, is the graduate level nurse anesthetist. SN's program in Camden is the only one of its kind in New Jersey. The school offers graduate level programs for adult, psychiatric mental health, occupational health, women's health and family nurse practitioners. Jobs are available for the latter, who act as primary care providers, just as family practice doctors do. Nurse practitioners are recognized as primary care providers in the managed care system.
Graduate degrees pay off in bigger paychecks.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, employment will also increase 30 percent or more between 1998 and 2008 for many other health industry occupations, including physicians, social workers, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists and audiologists, personal care and home health aides, medical records and health information technicians, and health service managers. For those who like detail and are extremely patient and meticulous, clinical lab science may fill the bill. She became a medical technologist because she prefers hands-on lab work, rather than heavy patient contact. Eileen types blood cells to determine whether donor organs are compatible with transplant recipients. She's employed in the laboratory of the New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network in Springfield.