[...]... help humanity She had 7 Copyright 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Click Here for Terms of Use 8 • CAREERS FOR CARING PEOPLE done her share of volunteer work, but now she wanted to become a caring nurse Aware that in some areas there was no need for additional nurses, she knew she would need to do some research before relocating When she vacationed in Florida, she visited a number of hospitals,... Companies, Inc Click Here for Terms of Use 16 • CAREERS FOR CARING PEOPLE industry have forced most institutions, even the most successful ones, to seek new ways to survive Many hospital administrators are looking for solutions in merging institutions serving the same or contiguous communities, eliminating competing services, and making more efficient use of physicians and other medical specialists... many excellent positions within medical record departments for trained medical record technicians who work under the direction of professional medical record librarians Aide (CNA or Orderly) Aides feed patients, assist in bathing them, straighten the rooms, and do any other tasks that contribute to a patient’s comfort 30 • CAREERS FOR CARING PEOPLE Employers prefer that applicants have a high school... enable employees to take daytime courses that are otherwise not available Some employers will even pay tuition fees for employees eager to improve themselves The administrator of a large private hospital in the Southeast encouraged CNAs on staff to take daytime courses that would eventually allow them to become certified as LPNs 12 • CAREERS FOR CARING PEOPLE Correspondence or home study courses leading... Grants, and Loans for Undergraduates (5th edition) Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall, 1996 Eberts, Marjorie, and Margaret Gisler Careers for Good Samaritans and Other Humanitarian Types Chicago: VGM Career Books, 1998 Kerby, Debra M Fund Your Way Through College: Uncovering 1,700 Great Opportunities in Undergraduate Financial Aid Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1994 Peterson’s Paying Less for College (13th... drawn to the idea of caring for others in some capacity but hesitate to investigate the field because you are uncomfortable about your age or have limited education or no money to pay for schooling, this chapter should encourage you to pursue your career search Age Is No Barrier You can be twelve years old serving as a baby-sitter or eighty and working as a companion Age is no barrier for caretakers Although... hospital 24 • CAREERS FOR CARING PEOPLE Some of the administrator’s principal day-to-day responsibilities include: • Maintaining an accurate and efficient accounting system, • • • • • including preparing periodic budgets and detailed financial statements Recruiting all hospital personnel, including nurses, pharmacists, janitors, laundry workers, technicians, and so forth, and providing for all the physicians... most up-to-date equipment it can afford Coordinating the work of all the departments and seeing that hospital policies are carried out by the entire staff Supervising the planning and operation of teaching programs for student nurses and other in-service programs for other staff members Acting as the link between the entire hospital staff and the Board of Trustees or other governing body Although four... responsible for personnel relations in your department, teaching employees, purchasing food and equipment, maintaining standards of sanitation, and supervising the food and labor cost accounting As an administrative dietitian, you would work very closely with the administrator of your hospital 26 • CAREERS FOR CARING PEOPLE Diet Therapy This career path can prove intriguing because it calls for planning... elevates one into another world where responsibilities and earnings, as well as the breadth of job opportunities, are much greater No Experience Needed for Entry-Level Jobs Joyce Kabien had served as a candy striper in a nearby hospital during high school Although her assignments were usually of a routine unskilled nature—delivering mail, operating the book 10 • CAREERS FOR CARING PEOPLE cart, escorting .