Large numbers of Northern Missouri high school students learned about the prospects of embarking on healthcare careers earlier this month, according to a published report.
For the 10th Annual Health Care Career Day, Sullivan County Memorial Hospital in Milan hosted more than 200 regional high school students on February 2, KTVO reports. They heard details about registered nursing jobs, pharmacy jobs, laboratory technicians and other jobs germane to the industry.
“We want to give them the opportunity to hear these speakers talk about why they picked their choices of career paths and this helps the students pick curricular, pick classes, know that they may need to be focusing on math, focusing on science,” chief executive officer Martha Gragg with Sullivan County Memorial Hospital told the news source. “It gives them an opportunity to do job shadowing later at a facility of their choice.”
The students also listened to professionals within various healthcare careers discuss their life and times.
Roughly 40 percent of healthcare jobs are situated in hospitals while 21 percent are in either nursing homes or residential care facilities, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixteen percent of healthcare jobs are in doctors’ offices.