What health care careers only require a Bachelor's degree ?

Friday, March 4, 2011

I am a senior in high school trying to decide what I wanna do with my life :) I know i want to go into the health/medicine field of study. I have a program called A+ which allows you two free years at any community college, so I thought of getting an Associates degree in Radiology or Dental Hygiene.. but I can't really find a list of careers that require bachelor's degrees.. I'd love to be a nurse anesthetist or a Physician Assistant, but I just dont know if I can make it through 6-8 years of school.. please help!
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RNs can get an associate's degree or bachelor's degree. I would normally advise against getting your associates for nursing since it still takes 3-4 years to actually get the degree and you have less job opprotunities, but if you truly got it for free it may be worth it. You could get the ADN, and then do a bridge program for BSN then go for nurse anesthetist. You could also get the bachelors and work as a nurse, and if you want to you could go for the CRNA or some other advanced practice nurse/ nurse pracitioner, if not you could still get a good job. That may be smarter than PA school, since you would be more committed to graduate school. Radiology may take you 3 years, and it may run through the summer which may not be paid for by your program
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