Nursing Home Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities:
Nursing Home Administrator is a professional who specializes in health care. These people are also the chief executive officer for nursing facilities. The nursing home administrator manages a 24/7 facility that provides services for ill people. What nursing home administrators do is quite a handful like, directing execution of policies and procedures, analyzing the operations, evaluates the environment, evaluate equipments that are important, etc. A nursing home administrator however, must have a high occupancy rate as required. 


Salary: $50,000- $80,000



Education: First thing's first, what is needed is a Bachelor's Degree. Secondly, a master's degree must be earned in a nursing home administration field. What is also required is 5 to 10 years worth of full time work experience in a nursing facility. Also it is required to work 10 years full time at a nursing home. Then all what's neccassary is the license.

Reflection:
Personally I find this an interesting career, to make out of a living. I like how this job is quite interesting, and how this isn't really talked about. I don't know whether to be this nursing home administrator, but this career stood out fromt he rest.

Health Educator

Duties and Responsibilities:

A health educator promotes most of their ideas about health. Sometimes they even make programs to encourage people to choose a healthy lifestyle. Health educators basically, collect data, and find ways how people or the community can live healthier. They try to look for improvement each time so the people can live healthier. A health educator sometimes analyzes data, sees people’s weaknesses and tries to figure out a solution for a certain health issue. They sometimes control or run, their programs depending what it is. Some Health Educator work for different issues and see what’s the problem, or if anything needs further improvement. Many health educators are available for different health issues that run through our community. Most common issues are basically, environmental health, and physical health.

Salary:

Median pay (annual): 41,830 USD (2012)

Median pay (hourly): 20.11 USD (2012)

Projected 10-year growth: 21% (2012)

 Number of jobs: 99,400 (2012)

Education: First step in order to be a health educator is to have a Bachelor’s Degree in health care. Sometimes a High School diploma can get you a spot. Also, some high school undergraduates might be accepted as well. They have to take one year program. Then they have to take special training. Most raining is done on the job.

Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

An ENT specialist is someone who specializes on ear, nose and throat. Usually you would see this specialist in case you have some sort of disorder, disease, or illness. Sometimes cases are so bad, that you need some surgical procedure performed in the area needed in the throat, nose, or ear. People get infections in their ears, probably because water went into their ears. This specialist would assist you right away, and will prescribe certain medicines for ear pain relief. They are also responsible for curing damage hearing loss. Not only that, but specialists are there to assist in throat surgeries. Some people apparently have swallowing and speaking problems, so they have to see this specialist.

Salary: $184,650 - $302,500

Education:

In order to be an ENT specialist you got to go to medical school. 4 years of medical school is needed. It is also imperative to score well on the MCAT, and to get a good GPA. Courses needed to qualify are, biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics. Soon you can join a 3 to 5 year ENT program.

Reflection:

I feel like this is a maybe. I like to work as an ENT specialist because it’s interesting to find cures for people.