Health Care Education

Make no mistake about it. Careers in nursing are booming.
The U.S. government’s authoritative Occupational Outlook Handbook predicts that more than 581,500 new jobs will be created for nurses though 2018. The Handbook also reports that the median salary for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses is now $40,380, and that the median salary for Nursing [...]

By Danielle Koons
Whether you’re taking nursing classes or enrolled in an online nursing program, or even if you just know someone who is pursing their nursing degree online, we think you’ll appreciate Danielle Koons’ following post dedicated to all nurses for Nurse Appreciation Week.
As you may know, National Nurses Week, aka Nurse Appreciation Week, is [...]

This week, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is hosting its ICD-10-CM/PCS and Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC) summit in Baltimore.
That might not strike you as the top news story of the day, but the fact is that computer-assisted coding (CAC) could have a much bigger impact on your life than today’s baseball scores or tonight’s weather report.
Why? [...]

I was in tenth grade, visiting my best high school friend. We suddenly noticed that people were talking loudly outside his house. We went out and saw that a group of neighbors was standing around a man who had fallen down and was lying on the sidewalk. The man lay still. He looked ashen. The [...]

As we’ve noted before on this blog, the demand for medical billers and coders is increasing steadily. There are many reasons why. Perhaps the most important reason is that the number of healthcare providers is growing fast in America. There are now urgent care centers, diagnostic centers, short-term surgical centers, and other care providers that [...]

There’s no doubt about the fact that a flu epidemic (or near-epidemic anyhow) is happening right now across the United States. If you doubt it, a map that you can see online at the KYPost blog will convince you that the epidemic really is happening.
That post also contains state-by-state information on just how bad the [...]

Sooner or later in your school years, you are going to have to pass a test that asks you to name the parts of a cell. (NOT a cellphone, the other kind of cell.) The funny thing is, at some point it might actually be useful to know how a cell functions, and what its [...]

I don’t know about you, but I like to think of myself as someone who helps other people. When someone tells me that they need assistance of some kind, I try to stop, listen, and do what I can. Even in random encounters on the street or in public places, I try to be kind [...]

Now that StraighterLine also offers professor-led online college courses, we thought you might want to know a little more about our professors. We’ve asked each of them to answer a series of questions to help you decide whether you want to enroll in their courses or stick with our more traditional self-paced courses. As with [...]

We’re very pleased to announce that you are now able to study Microbiology at StraighterLine. Actually, you are able to choose from two Microbiology courses. One will be regular old Microbiology. The other will be Microbiology with a lab component, created for those of you who need to take science courses with lab components before [...]

by Jeffrey Simons
There may never be a better time to become a nurse. America’s baby boomers are aging. At the same time, Americans are living longer. The government projects that there will be more than 880,000 new jobs for nurses created between 2010 and 2020. And the American Association of Colleges of Nursing is predicting a [...]

Whether you are thinking of becoming a chemist or simply are taking a chemistry course in high school or college, you really should head on over to the American Chemical Society (NCS) home page to see what’s happening this week.

If you want to ride the hiring wave, now could be a great time to train to become a nurse, an operating room technician, a radiologist, or a member of one of the other fast-growing health care professions.

Is it hard to find a job today? In many cases, yes. But the fact remains that demand is high for trained professionals in a number of fields. And here’s some good news. Those fields don’t require years and years of education or training. 

There is a certain type of person, a person completely unlike myself, who fits into the healthcare world. This person is ambitious, loving, kind, patient, and understanding. This person also loves people and wants nothing more than to heal the sick.