| It is estimated that there would be a dramatic | | | | be high demand this is where the career profile of |
| increase of 10% in the total employment | | | | health workers hogs the limelight. Careers in US in |
| generation in the US by 2016. However, the | | | | the health sector is highly reputed and respected |
| career profile will differ in various industries and | | | | and health care workers including doctors and |
| occupational groups. If the trends of the careers | | | | nurses enjoy high social status and esteem in the |
| in US are any indication, Healthcare and social | | | | American society. |
| assistance would continue to grow at a healthy | | | | Every day countless Americans turn to qualified |
| rate. | | | | health care workers for all their medical needs. |
| There will be a creation of 4 million new jobs in | | | | From minor ailments like common cold and viral |
| both public and private hospitals in nursing, | | | | fever to life threatening conditions like Aids and |
| individual health and family services. This | | | | cancer, patients throng the hospitals to take the |
| staggering growth of 25.4 percent is a sure shot | | | | best medical assistance to prolong their lives and |
| hint of the widening gap between the supply and | | | | to enjoy a healthy life. In addition trauma care and |
| demand of well qualified and experienced health | | | | accident care units also need trained hands |
| care personnel. Longer life expectancies has | | | | including surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists |
| thrown up new challenges in the health care | | | | among others to perform life saving operations |
| sector as it needs to mobilize more resources and | | | | and critical care |
| manpower to take care of the welfare and health | | | | Physicians in casualty units play a very important |
| of an ageing population.. | | | | role in treating patients with life threatening |
| True to the adage, if wealth is lost something is | | | | ailments and accident victims who require urgent |
| lost but if health is lost everything is lost. These | | | | medical intervention including blood transfusion or |
| days, every one is overly health conscious and | | | | surgery. Internists would diagnose the condition |
| leaves nothing to chance. People give top priority | | | | and prescribe medication, which would be |
| to be in the pink of their health to enjoy a quality | | | | dispensed by the pharmacists. In addition there |
| life, which lies ahead of them. It is heartening to | | | | would be an array of other posts like X-ray |
| note that in the career search of prospective | | | | technicians, maintenance workers, Orderlies, |
| employees, health care is one of the most popular | | | | nursing aides and so on and so forth. |
| options. As long as human beings are on this | | | | Thus health care services remain one of the fast |
| earth, the demand for health care workers would | | | | growing sectors with constant demand in the US. |