If you are looking to enter the healthcare industry, you need more than just admissions requirements and step-by-step guides. You need to catch up on what’s happening in healthcare and that changes all the time.
The HealthcareDegree.com blog tackles topics relevant to both those joining the healthcare field and those already working within it. From updated salary figures to ongoing regulatory battles to interviews with professionals, we cover the issues that matter. Check out some of the posts below to learn more about where the healthcare industry is at right now, where it is headed, and how it all affects you.
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Mentors in Health: Interviews with Two Mental Health Counselors
March 16, 2020Two clinical mental health counselors open up about their career journey, including their advice for prospective professionals in this field.
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Mentors in Health: Interview with a Physical Therapist Assistant
March 13, 2020Britany Cunningham is a licensed physical therapist assistant (also known as a PTA) who works at several clinics in Nampa and Caldwell, Idaho. As a “PRN” (short for the Latin phrase pro re nata), she has a floating schedule and works with multiple clinics as needed.
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Fighting the Coronavirus: The Minds that Wage Wars Against Society’s Biological Threats
March 4, 2020As new cases of the infected around the world began to rise from the double digits into the triple, social media channels from Twitter to TikTok turned into a free-for-all of fear, finger-pointing and conjecture, while political and health leaders continued to tout different perspectives, adding to the confusion. Depending on which source is narrating, the problem can seem alarmingly serious or mildly disconcerting.
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Mentors in Health: An Interview with a Doula
March 2, 2020In response to concerning statistics about the maternal mortality rate in the United States, obstetrics and gynecology organizations are calling for increased maternal support before, during, and after childbirth. One allied health profession that serves the emotional and physical needs of expectant mothers during their birth experiences are doulas. They are professional health coaches dedicated to supporting women and their families.
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Mentors in Health: An Interview with a Pharmacist
February 7, 2020Pharmacists make people feel good again. As medication specialists, they dispense prescription medications to patients and also act as consulting experts on the safe use of those substances. This is no small task: two-thirds of American adults already use prescription drugs, and an increasingly aging population will push these numbers higher.
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Issues in Chiropractic Care: The Legislative Fight for Medicare Coverage
January 21, 2020Since 1972, Medicare coverage has included only one chiropractic service: manual manipulation of the spine. Currently, seniors who require treatment beyond manual manipulation of the spine must either pay their chiropractor out of pocket for those services or find another provider who is allowed under Medicare to provide them.
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Mentors in Health: An Interview with an Integrative Nutritionist
December 17, 2019Interested in pursuing a career as a nutritionist? Read on to learn more about the daily life of a nutritionist in an interview with featured healthcare mentor Audrey Laurelton, Integrative RDN.
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Physician Assistants (PAs) in Kentucky: The Fight for Full Prescriptive Authority
December 17, 2019One solution to the shortage of physicians in Kentucky is to give PAs full prescriptive authority, which is the ability of a medical professional to prescribe patients scheduled or controlled drugs. Over the last 30 years, most states have independently updated their laws to do so, and today, PAs have the ability to independently prescribe patients with controlled drugs in 49 states. The one outlier? Kentucky.