Health Care Jobs

Health Care Jobs provide employment for more than fifteen million individuals nationwide. Forty percent of health care jobs are in hospitals, twenty two percent of health care jobs are in nursing and residential care facilities and sixteen percent are in physician or doctors offices. Health care jobs are found all over the country, but are concentrated in the metropolitan areas of each state.

Health care is expected to create approximately three million new jobs in the next ten years, that is more than any other industry, primarily as a response to the rapid growth of our elderly and aging population. Eleven of the twenty fastest growing occupations are in health care.

There will be many job opportunities in all health care employment settings as a result of employment growth and the need to replace health workers who retire or leave their jobs. Stringent immigration rules and policies that are slowing the number of foreign health care workers entering the United States will make it easier to get a job in the health care industry. Health Care occupations needing the most replacement workers are usually large, with high turnover resulting from low compensation, little or no benefits, low training requirements and a large amount of part-time workers. Nursing aides, orderlies, attendants and home health aides are the health care job titles adding the most new jobs. The opposite can be said for positions with few new or replacement health care job openings such as physicians and surgeons. The Health Care job that is anticipated to have the most job openings is registered nurses. The age of currently employed registered nurses is increasing, and not enough younger nurses are graduating from nursing schools and replacing them. This results in many health care employers reporting difficulties in hiring and keeping nurses. Health care professionals at all levels of education and training will continue to be in strong demand. In most cases it will be easier for jobseekers with health care specific training to get jobs and advance in their careers.

Some Common Health Care Job Titles

Counselors, social workers, dietitians and nutritionists, pharmacists, physicians and surgeons, physician assistants, registered nurses, clinical laboratory technologists and technicians, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses, office and administrative support occupations, billing and posting clerks and machine operators, receptionists and information clerks, secretaries and administrative assistants,

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