What are the employment prospects of studying nursing in the United States?

Employment Direction for Nursing Majors

Engage in clinical nursing, preventive health care, nursing management, nursing teaching and nursing research in the field of nursing. After graduating from the nursing major, you don’t have to worry about being unable to find a job, because the current social and economic development has placed higher and higher demands on the medical industry. Graduates can choose to work in private hospitals or public hospitals based on their actual strength. After graduating from the nursing major, the job directions can also be: nanny, private family nurse, hold relevant certificates and go abroad to work as nurses. At present, the salary of nurses abroad is very good, and the demand is relatively large.

1. Social and medical background

Taking the most common place of work and the corresponding employment direction-hospital, the overall choices are as follows:

< p>1. Domestic third-level (esp. third-level A-level hospitals) general hospitals

2. General hospitals of second-level and below (including traditional Chinese medicine hospitals)

3. Domestic specialized hospitals

4. Community hospitals

5. Foreign-funded hospitals

Items 1 and 2 are relatively traditional. The working environment, salary and benefits are different between hospitals. If you want to know this information, the most reliable way is to ask the nurses in internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, operating room, and ICU. Of course, generally speaking, the operating room and surgery are the busiest and have the highest pay. Of course, hospitals are different from applying for jobs in other companies. Basically, you can’t choose the departments assigned to you. After starting my career, the general direction will not change too much. Therefore, the randomness of department allocation is relatively high. The advantage is that the job is stable and basically an "iron rice bowl". However, some top tertiary hospitals in big cities will impose restrictions on household registration and tend to recruit local students.

The three specialized hospitals include ENT hospitals, cancer hospitals, and obstetrics and gynecology hospitals. They are divided into public and private hospitals. They have relatively high salaries, but the work content is relatively monotonous. The benefits and household registration restrictions are the same as above.

4 Community hospitals are basically relatively relaxed. Most of them don't have to work overtime, they have holidays and holidays, and the working environment is not stressful. The salary is actually not low either. However, generally, entering community hospitals requires certain admission thresholds (you must have personal connections). However, due to the limited medical conditions and limited professional development in community hospitals, if you are more ambitious, you may not get career satisfaction.

5 Foreign-funded hospitals have flourished in major domestic cities (esp, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou...), such as United Family Hospital and Shanghai International Medical Center. For these, English requirements are high. United Family now also has management trainees (similar to corporate ones). Moreover, the management method is biased toward the management of foreign companies. Nursing majors can develop in several fields such as specialist nurses, nursing management, and medical support. The evaluation methods and salary payment of nurses are also the same as those of foreign companies. Those who like the working environment of foreign companies and have suitable personal qualifications can choose. However, the disadvantage is that it is not as stable as public institutions.

In the above hospitals, in general, the job responsibilities, work content, and social status of nurses do not differ greatly. If you choose to develop in this career, then if you have good academic qualifications (bachelor degree or above), certain connections, and outstanding personal abilities...if you meet these requirements, it is a good choice to move up. According to the most visited traditional hospitals, a management position is a better direction. Undergraduate nurses often serve as clinical teachers, and then gradually embark on the path of nursing management. Of course, nursing management positions are very limited. It would be embarrassing if you have no ambitions and cannot realize them. Therefore, you still need to be mentally prepared.

There are some hospitals that you can pay attention to, which are hospitals that have obtained international JCI certification, such as the Children's Medical Center in Shanghai. The style of these hospitals is international, including the status and attire of nurses, which are very different. They pay more attention to the development of specialist nursing. In addition, these hospitals, including the top tertiary hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, will also have quotas for nurses to train and study abroad, so there are relatively many opportunities. Smaller hospitals are relatively relaxed and less stressful.

2. Direction of talent flow

1. Hospitals (same as above);

2. Medical companies (large foreign companies such as Pfizer, Roche, Medtronic, etc.) mainly have For management trainees, sales, and marketing, the nursing major also has certain advantages;

3. Vocational education in medical schools: Generally, 211 and other schools require a doctorate + study abroad experience; junior colleges and vocational high schools also have certain advantages. Requires a master's degree or above

4. Graduate students, going abroad → changing majors: generally choose psychology, nursing, medical-related (nutrition...) more

5. Medical-related media, Magazine: I heard that my senior went to a publishing house. However, the basic threshold now is: master’s degree and above.

7. Occupations with less professional restrictions, such as sales, clerks, front desks, store managers... and some management trainees.

8. Rely on various certificates to find employment (change careers): accounting certificate, teacher qualification certificate (generally you can only enter private schools), tour guide certificate. There are many such cases around us.

9. Enter the civil service system, public institutions (health bureau, blood center) and other stable units. Of course, this requires your own examination level and certain personal connections.

10. The way to become a great person.

There are no signs of employment for many talented people. Some seniors have joined Medical Team Without Borders. We can only look up...

Generally speaking, there are different opinions on the development prospects of the nursing industry. As far as I am concerned, in the current employment environment, if I develop into a hospital, then of course it will be better if the conditions are good. If your own conditions are average, your prospects will be average. This is the same as many traditional industries!

Employment prospects for nursing majors

With the surge in demand for nursing staff in the international medical market, the phenomenon of "nurse shortage" has become increasingly prominent in the medical circles of various countries. In the next 10 years, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan and other countries around the world will be in urgent need of 2 million nursing talents, and international human resources companies have set their sights on China. The worldwide shortage of nursing talent resources has created more opportunities for our country's nursing staff to go abroad and find employment in the international market. Industry experts said that the nursing profession has always been one of the professions with higher status and rich salaries in the world. For example, the average annual salary of nurses in the United States is US$50,000, but the United States is short of 300,000 nurses. In Australia, it is easy for nurses to find a job or get promoted. At the same time, as long as you have the qualification of an Australian registered nurse, you are equivalent to getting a "green card" leading to work in a Commonwealth country. Western developed countries such as Britain, France, and Germany have many preferential policies for nurses. Therefore, nurses with profound professional knowledge, high overall quality and fluent international communication language have broad prospects for international employment and development.

Furthermore, as my country transforms into an aging society, talents engaged in geriatric medicine will be in demand in the future, and health care physicians and family nurses will also become popular talents. In recent years, my country's population age structure has shown an aging change, but the family structure has shown a trend of miniaturization. With the improvement of people's living standards, the disease spectrum of the population has changed, and the demand for chronic disease care has increased. While people pay attention to physical and mental health, their awareness of disease prevention and self-care has also been increasing. Community medical care work is facing rare challenges. opportunities.

At present, many hospitals in large and medium-sized cities in China have foreign-related outpatient clinics, and some joint venture hospitals and "foreign" hospitals have mushroomed in Beijing, Shanghai and other places. Therefore, if nursing talents have professional knowledge in nursing, nursing interpersonal communication, nursing etiquette, etc., as well as certain foreign language skills, then the employment options will be broader, and they can engage in foreign-related medical and nursing services and international technical cooperation in China. communication and data transfer, etc.

Someone left a message on the Chinese Nurse Online saying: "Human life is limited. I don't know how much I can do. After experiencing life and death many times, I realized that cherish it. I will keep going. No matter how difficult it is, a responsible and caring nurse is an angel in the eyes of patients. The nursing major has been listed as a national talent shortage major by six ministries including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, and has been given key support. The statistics of health human resources of various member countries of the World Health Organization show that many countries are in short supply of nursing talents. In our country, the number of nurses is far from enough, and the ratio of doctors to nurses is seriously imbalanced.

With the development of social economy and the gradual realization of the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, the broad masses of the people have higher and higher demands for health and health services. At the same time, the advancement of science and technology and the continuous deepening of medical and health service reform have put forward higher requirements for the quantity, quality and structure of nursing talents.

The vast majority of people choose to work in hospitals after graduation. However, they are basically engaged in clinical nursing, and very few people can take up management positions after graduation. After working for a few years, undergraduate graduates have a better chance of taking up management positions (this depends on whether the hospital values ??talents or relationships, or whether the promotion of managers relies solely on years of service and seniority). There are undergraduate nursing students in all clinical departments of the hospital. The specific department in which each person is placed is decided by the hospital, but you can tell the nursing department your thoughts and the reasons for your choice of department, and maybe they will consider you. opinions. (It is very important to decide on a subject, because the bonuses for each department are different, and some departments value undergraduates, so you will have more opportunities).

It is also good to find a teaching position in various medical schools (college and technical secondary schools). However, the salary in schools is generally lower than that in hospitals. But the school has winter and summer vacations, which is good, because it is difficult to take vacations from clinical work.

Finally, what I want to say is that everything depends on personal efforts, and professionalism is just a background and foundation. There is also a way to integrate medical knowledge into the current sunshine industry (the Internet), and this is completely dependent on personal discovery. Development prospects still depend on your own ideas and vision.