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By Jen Seuhr and Shea Drefs
Did you know the five fastest-growing industries in the U.S. all belong to the health care sector? Employers from doctor’s offices to labs and home care companies are expected to increase staff by up to 4.8 percent every year until at least 2024. If you’re as excited about this sector as the analysts, try the following courses to help get you in the door or advance your career.
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First Aid & Safety
Provider: Carone Fitness
If you want to start with the basics of patient care, this course serves as an excellent launching pad. You’ll learn how to carry out common first aid procedures — including CPR for infants, children and adults — and explore general safety and emergency preparedness. Carone Fitness courses are designed to be completed in 10 to 18 weeks, so you could be a safety aficionado by summer!
eHealth – Opportunities and Challenges
Provider: edX
The digital revolution is transforming health care as we know it, bringing with it an incredible number of job opportunities. Even if you don’t plan to work with information technology directly, demonstrating a basic understanding of the eHealth movement will go far. This free class serves as the perfect introduction, defining basic eHealth concepts and considering the field’s opportunities and challenges. CourseTalk users have especially appreciated the real-world examples incorporated throughout the lessons. “The course was very insightful and above all innovative in its presentation by incorporating experiences and challenges from real professionals into the course lectures,” said one anonymous reviewer.
Certificate in End of Life Care
Provider: ed2go
End-of-life care is a specialized field where compassionate, skilled health care professionals can have a huge impact. If you’re interested in working with the terminally ill, this certificate could help distinguish you during a job search and support you in day-to-day care. You’ll learn about pain, psychology, ethics and culture as they relate to dying. And if end-of-life care isn’t for you, ed2go offers certificates in a variety of other healthcare areas, such as holistic health, gerontology, meditation and mental health.
Learn to Care & Support People Experiencing Mental Illness
Provider: Udemy
This short course explores the symptoms of and treatments for mental illnesses including schizophrenia, bi-polar affective disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and eating disorders. CourseTalk reviewers unanimously loved the course, calling it useful, interesting and easy to understand. With just an hour of video content and a money-back guarantee, you don’t have much to lose with this option!
Midwifery
Provider: Open2Study
Midwife baby delivery has recently surged in popularity in the United States, and it’s long been a common choice for mothers-to-be around the world. This free course, starting February 15, is designed for people considering a career in the growing profession. It looks at the history of midwifery, as well as the role of the midwife throughout a woman’s pregnancy. The instructor has a doctorate in midwifery plus decades of experience as both a nurse and a midwife, so you’re sure to be in good hands.
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What do you think? Is a career in health care right for you? Explore our 230 courses on the subject and get one step closer to finding out!
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Did you know the five fastest-growing industries in the U.S. all belong to the health care sector? Employers from doctor’s offices to labs and home care companies are expected to increase staff by up to 4.8 percent every year until at least 2024. If you’re as excited about this sector as the analysts, try the following courses to help get you in the door or advance your career.
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First Aid & Safety
Provider: Carone Fitness
If you want to start with the basics of patient care, this course serves as an excellent launching pad. You’ll learn how to carry out common first aid procedures — including CPR for infants, children and adults — and explore general safety and emergency preparedness. Carone Fitness courses are designed to be completed in 10 to 18 weeks, so you could be a safety aficionado by summer!
eHealth – Opportunities and Challenges
Provider: edX
The digital revolution is transforming health care as we know it, bringing with it an incredible number of job opportunities. Even if you don’t plan to work with information technology directly, demonstrating a basic understanding of the eHealth movement will go far. This free class serves as the perfect introduction, defining basic eHealth concepts and considering the field’s opportunities and challenges. CourseTalk users have especially appreciated the real-world examples incorporated throughout the lessons. “The course was very insightful and above all innovative in its presentation by incorporating experiences and challenges from real professionals into the course lectures,” said one anonymous reviewer.
Certificate in End of Life Care
Provider: ed2go
End-of-life care is a specialized field where compassionate, skilled health care professionals can have a huge impact. If you’re interested in working with the terminally ill, this certificate could help distinguish you during a job search and support you in day-to-day care. You’ll learn about pain, psychology, ethics and culture as they relate to dying. And if end-of-life care isn’t for you, ed2go offers certificates in a variety of other healthcare areas, such as holistic health, gerontology, meditation and mental health.
Learn to Care & Support People Experiencing Mental Illness
Provider: Udemy
This short course explores the symptoms of and treatments for mental illnesses including schizophrenia, bi-polar affective disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression and eating disorders. CourseTalk reviewers unanimously loved the course, calling it useful, interesting and easy to understand. With just an hour of video content and a money-back guarantee, you don’t have much to lose with this option!
Midwifery
Provider: Open2Study
Midwife baby delivery has recently surged in popularity in the United States, and it’s long been a common choice for mothers-to-be around the world. This free course, starting February 15, is designed for people considering a career in the growing profession. It looks at the history of midwifery, as well as the role of the midwife throughout a woman’s pregnancy. The instructor has a doctorate in midwifery plus decades of experience as both a nurse and a midwife, so you’re sure to be in good hands.
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What do you think? Is a career in health care right for you? Explore our 230 courses on the subject and get one step closer to finding out!
Continue reading...
