Health Care thoughts: The Best Jobs in Health Care
Health Care: The Best Jobs in Health Care
Teaching seminars and advising college students headed for various health careers, I am often asked about the ‘best” health care careers. During a seminar many years ago I came up with a top five, and after some thought I think the list is still valid.
Draw any conclusions you like.
1. Health care transaction and regulatory lawyers
2. Health care consultants (all varieties)
3. Health care executives
4. Health care CPAs
5. Physical therapists
The worst job in health care – Director of Nurses for a nursing home.
(Note: I have been 2, 3,and 4 at various times)
Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt
only 1 in the top five that has direct interaction with the reason for healthcare…the patient. i’m afraid to ask where doc’s and nurses fall in the scheme of things.
Rusty,
I had the same conclusion as jeff. There is only 1 healthcare job in there. The rest our generic jobs that are in any industry. Lawyers?
Where are the actual health care jobs? doctors, nurses, etc.
And what defines ‘best’?
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I defined best by income, prestige and working conditions. Therefore, no nurses will ever make the top 5, or the top 10, or maybe not even the top 25. The physicial therapist has nicer hours anda better income.
The nursing home DON has all of the usual negatives plus enough stress to make a linebacker wilt.
Government regulation of health care has made #1 – #4 so very prosperous. Obamacare will enhance their livelihoods.
Recent conversation at home:
Mrs. Rustbelt: “So what does Obamacare do for me at the nursing home?”
Me: “More paperwork.”
Mrs. Rustbelt: “How could I possibly do more paperwork than I do now.”
Me: “Woudl you like to read the rules?”
Mrs. Rustbelt: “No, I’m going to check my retirement account. BLEEP.”
str,
Thanks. But are you in the least surprised that Obamacare is good for lawyers and not for Doctors and Nurses? We really need to nationalize the legal system…
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Of course I am biased, but Physician Assistant’s have continually ranked high in career satisfaction, and in demand.
PAs do actually have some advantages over physicians as far as work life quality, depending on where they are employed.
Agreed we should move to where PAs and nurse practicioners are the first line care givers. For an aweful lot of issues 8 years or more of post BA training is overkill. (In particular a lot of typical childrens illnesses). Likewise for routine checkups. The extra training of a physician should be put to use where it really adds value. This is just like the slow move to hospitalists and away from the outpatient physician treating the inpatient physician.
The worst job is CNA in a nursing home.
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Being a PA will not be so attractive when the PAs have to start being on-call nights and weekends.
Close second to the DON of the nursing home, IMHO.
But rather than on call move to a shift schedule. Note that a lot of the clinics are open till 9 pm and on weekends already. No longer the old 9-5 route because the customers want longer hours. In a clinic not a single person practice, you have more people and can do scheduling. Note everyone wants to work 9 to 5. Now between 9 pm and 9 am unless you need an emergency room, you get the take 2 asprins and call me in the morning anyway.
Of course positions #1 -#4 don’t have to deal with patients. That gives them the big advantage of not getting emotionally involved in treatment.
The “call” I was referring to is the 3 am emergency call from the hospital or nursing home.
My wife at times has been a nursing home DON and while she’s had some rough times she’s also had some very good ones. Frankly it all comes down to how her administrator treats her – if they are a micromanaging sh*thook she has a rough time but if they back off and let her do her job (authority to hire & fire) then she can take even a bad nursing home & make an excellent one out of it. I know this as I saw her take a local nursing home from problematic to zero defecincies in less than a year. And she makes very good money especially considering her degree is an AAS. At my peak w/an AAS & 30 years in tech I made less than 1/3 of what she makes plus now my industry here is dead (unemployed almost 3 years). Furthermore when she is mistreated she can easily get another job as she’s established an excellent reputation in our community whereas job changing for me has been dodgy since 1995 & now pretty much impossible unless I want to move or temp…
My wife at times has been a nursing home DON and while she’s had some rough times she’s also had some very good ones. Frankly it all comes down to how her administrator treats her – if they are a micromanaging sh*thook she has a rough time but if they back off and let her do her job (authority to hire & fire) then she can take even a bad nursing home & make an excellent one out of it. I know this as I saw her take a local nursing home from problematic to zero defecincies in less than a year. And she makes very good money especially considering her degree is an AAS. At my peak w/an AAS & 30 years in tech I made less than 1/3 of what she makes plus now my industry here is dead (unemployed almost 3 years). Furthermore when she is mistreated she can easily get another job as she’s established an excellent reputation in our community whereas job changing for me has been dodgy since 1995 & now pretty much impossible unless I want to move or temp…
My wife at times has been a nursing home DON and while she’s had some rough times she’s also had some very good ones. Frankly it all comes down to how her administrator treats her – if they are a micromanaging sh*thook she has a rough time but if they back off and let her do her job (authority to hire & fire) then she can take even a bad nursing home & make an excellent one out of it. I know this as I saw her take a local nursing home from problematic to zero defecincies in less than a year. And she makes very good money especially considering her degree is an AAS. At my peak w/an AAS & 30 years in tech I made less than 1/3 of what she makes plus now my industry here is dead (unemployed almost 3 years). Furthermore when she is mistreated she can easily get another job as she’s established an excellent reputation in our community whereas job changing for me has been dodgy since 1995 & now pretty much impossible unless I want to move or temp…
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Assume the PA works for a retail clinic and assume Electronic Records. Why would the clinic be involved in emergency work? PA’s and indeed as it moves forward outside of specialists primary care physicians won’t be involved in emergency care, today emergency care is a speciality, which started out of the military mash units. Even if a nursing home has an emergency issue would they not call an ambulance. So it will depend on the job if there are on call requirements. I suspect with the gender change in medicine the number of on call jobs will decrease short of mass disaster situations, when PAs may become EMTs.
Somebody has to do the on-call work, most of which is not “emergency” work.
For example, nursing homes have very strict regulations (“change of condition”) on when they MUST call the resident’s physician, also, a nursing home must call a physician or PA or FNP for any minor changes in orders.
There is a lot of work behind the scenes most patients and consumers never see.
I’ve never met your wife but I guarantee she is an angel.
Follow the money…
So, in health care, the best jobs are those on the business side of it, not on the patient/doctor side?
Absolutely, that’s the main reason I love her so. The last 5 years she’s been PCM at a local hospice and yes, she’s seeing patients this very minute. Her worst job of all time was trauma coordinator at a small-town hospital.
(And please delete my triple post, okay?)
Absolutely, that’s the main reason I love her so. The last 5 years she’s been PCM at a local hospice and yes, she’s seeing patients this very minute. Her worst job of all time was trauma coordinator at a small-town hospital.
(And please delete my triple post, okay?)
Absolutely, that’s the main reason I love her so. The last 5 years she’s been PCM at a local hospice and yes, she’s seeing patients this very minute. Her worst job of all time was trauma coordinator at a small-town hospital.
(And please delete my triple post, okay?)
I have a lot of friends who opt working in a nursing home or as just as a nurse because the education is cheaper than getting a license as a health care CPA or lawyers. Is there a scholarship or funding that gives a chance to poor people getting the same kind of education?