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The Medical Field Needs Me the Technician! The profession of pharmacy is at a crossroads between its conventional drug-dispensing identity and a pioneering clinical role with health care provider status. For the past several years, the concept of provider status has been tossed around at every pharmacy school, pharmacy association meeting, and pharmacy work site. Provider status is frequently discussed, but is it really vital to our profession’s survival? I would think so! With the high demand…

median pay is $40.4 per hour. This depends on position, years of experience, degree of education, geographic location, and practice setting. As of 2014 there were 210,900 physical therapists working in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment…

will also be bad for consumers and the economy” (Steele). Also, “to keep their profit margins, most businesses will pass these higher costs to consumers in the form of higher prices” (Steele). On the other hand, “According to the .U.S. Bureau of labor statistics, more than 3.8 million employees currently have minimum wage jobs” (Knight 1). Moreover, Most of the people with minimum wage job are teenagers or just low life’s that want to work in a fast food joint their entire life. For instance,…

Back injuries are a major concern for health care providers. One of the many job requirements of nursing is the safe movement of patients. This can range from simply repositioning the patient in bed to manually moving the patient from bed to stretcher, bed to chair or in the worst case scenario from floor back to bed. With obesity on the rise, this can be a major strain on the healthcare provider’s body. Even quality care that does not require lifting such as bending over patients to deliver…

specialize working with children or older adults, work in medical schools teaching or research, in a medical clinic, a hospital or even a private practice. In May of 2011, the average income for a Psychiatrist was $174,710 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor…

has no job; therefore, why go through all the work of raising the prices when it will significantly impact everyone. With the companies raising their prices so fast, the cost of labor will be expected to decline within the next twelve months. As stated in his speech “ the Acting Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics informed me this morning that and I quote: ‘Employment costs per unit of steel output in 1961 were essentially the same as they were in 1958’ “ , raising the prices would be…

1. As of right now, I am currently not working. I tried to work and go to school at the same time, but I was having trouble trying to balance school and work. One of the main reasons why is because I am a full time student and they would be giving me a lot of hours at work. So I guess you can say that my job right now is just being a full time student. 2. I have never taken a vocational interest, but I think it would be interesting to do so. I’m thinking of taking one just to see the results…

Public colleges in the United States should be tuition-free for all citizens. Everyone deserves the chance to receive higher education. Many foreign countries have already adopted some form of tuition-free education for college students. For example, Germany and Norway provide their citizens with tuition-free public colleges and their systems have worked well for them. Even, some U.S. states such as Tennessee and Oregon have made college education free for their residents. Tuition-free college…

and an hourly wage of $20.81. Surgical technologists require an Associate’s Degree. Due to surgeries becoming safer and safer, more types of surgeries have been developed, therefore more scrub techs are needed. In ten years, statistics provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show job growth for surgical technologists will increase by fifteen percent. The above average employment rate will make finding a job in this field tremendously easier. Although the amount of money surgical technologists…

progressively increased. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the rate of assault in the hospital industry in 2010 was 8.0 per 10,000 full-time-workers, three times the rate (2.4 per 10,000 full-time-workers) for all private sector industries (Rodriguez, Myers, Richardson, & Lipscomb, 2010, para. 1). Taking into consideration that these are that of reported incidents, it leaves a margin of unreported incidences to speculate about. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that magnitude of…