The rest of us means the traditional healthcare workers are the doctors, nurses, therapist, techonologist, and pharmaceutical pharmacist. These tradional workers are the direct patient care. But one fifth of the healthcare support staff work behind the scene.
Just like anyother employers, healthcare facilities hire accountants, finance, human resource managers, actuarians, payroll personnel, marketing and advertising professionals, communication department,dietiticians, maintenance, and engineers.
They hire accountants for their accounting department and to keep track of expenses and what is tax deductible or not.
Healthcare Managers to manage the units of deparments. Most of these healthcare managers are promoted within or hire from outside which require healthcare recruiters on a retairner basis.
Healthcare secretaries to support the nurses in the units for order entry, answering phone calls, and filing important nursing notes.
Healthcare clerks needs to verify informations, schedule appointments, and submit claims and process insurance claims to assure biling are done in effecient, adequate, and within the parameters of the insurance industries. Healthcare clerical workers such as receptionist, front desk clerks answer and take messages and to assist nurses in the admission process.
Other important supporting players are the IT professionals such coders, analyst, desktop support,computer software developer,and managers who manages the complex computer system needed to run an important healthcare informations and data accross a network of computers.
Because the overall healthcare employment outlook is bright and the large base of traditional and non traditional healthcare workers, the need to replace retiring employees and others who leave the field will continue to create a substantial number of openings in the healthcare field.
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics listed healthcare as the fastest growing careers and the medical staffing employment agencies are billion dollar business.
