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Comment posted Which Career Choice Is Better Correctional Officer Or Medical Sonographer? by rexx0046.

here is my take. i have not been to NC so can’t be sure but everywhere that i know there are many nursing assistant jobs. you should be able to get one easily. you might have to study and get your license first, i don’t know. also the cost of living in NC is much less than NJ so you will not be starting behind the curve.
next, i would decide what kind of schooling would be best and go for that while working as a nursing assistant. i also think nursing is a better career than sonography in that it would give you more options and perhaps better pay as well, and so might be something you would want to look into.

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  • These are two relatively different fields.
    Medical sonographer involves working with a varied type of patients to figure out diagnostic problems such as infectious, viral, cancers, and other things that might be within the person’s body. This is where you’re working in a rather secure area, and also you’re working with one or two people or patients at a time. You’re normally working in the hospital setting or in a clinical setting.
    A correctional officer is often working in the prison, or correctional facility. You are sometimes working with people who have varying criminal offenses or drug or other violations. You are working in a very secured area, but you are working with high risk people. If you’re a smaller lady, then this field may not be as good of a field, although it pays well.
    If you haven’t been able to get any jobs as a nursing assistant, and your license needs to be renewed, then take some refresher courses in this, and then see if you are able to get a practicum to practice some of the skills again, and then you never know, you will be offered a job,.
    Good luck!

Recent comments by rexx0046

  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    I understand it completely. I’m a nursing student (LPN). In Oregon, it is crazy to get into any sort of nursing program. LPN is a little less competitive, but most people want that RN first and are willing to spend two years on a waiting list cooling their heels rather than becoming an LPN first and bridging up to RN.
    It was still crazy to get into the LPN program. I had to take a test, write an essay on the spot, then right five more and submit them, have two letters of recommendation, and do an interview with the program director.
    I think the biggest reason nursing is so competitive is because of the nursing shortage. In such a such @$$ economy, it is a relatively secure job.
    Good luck.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Actually, this is one career area where the place you obtained your RN from is not as important as the fact that you have the RN. And, it is a well known fact that community colleges and some of the Cal States turn out far better nurses (in terms of clinical hours experience) than the UCs where they are heavy on theory but not so much on clinical experience. I spent 3 days a week on the hospital floor in the CC; but my friend at the UC spent 1/2 to 1 day a week in clinicals. She actually had to take some outside nursing extension courses after she was done to get a bit more experience. Once you start staff nursing, almost no one will ask or care where you got that RN from–all they want is a competent nurse on the floor. FYI-CSULB has a really tremendous nursing program–your family does not understand the nursing career path.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    No!
    Most recruiters ask if you have a license.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Nursing is a regulated profession. Everyone who enters the profession must write the same exam to get a license.
    Therefore everyone starts at the same level of competency as tested by the exam.
    The school you go to does not matter – if they could not prepare nurses who pass the exam they would not be in business.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Nope!
    An RN is an RN and will be an RN. I’m a pre-nursing student at a CA community college and I got accepted to CSU, Bakersfield for their BSN program! With that said, I will be transfering to a CSU and am on my way to be an RN. In the field of nursing, it really doesn’t matter where you get your degree, as long as you are an RN. The nursing field has a shortage unlike other majors, and once you are an RN, you will be working side by side with other RN graduates from top tier universities such as Yale along with community college graduate RNs. If those people tell you to go to a top tier university for nursing, do not listen to them, because they do not know much about the nursing field. Nursing school should never cost you an arm and a leg, so you go to which ever school is the cheapest and convenient for you. Let those other people brag about their lives and their level of education, but one thing they will never understand is that experience teaches.
    Good luck with your endeavors!

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  1. rexx0046 on October 26, 2009 3:49 am

    here is my take. i have not been to NC so can’t be sure but everywhere that i know there are many nursing assistant jobs. you should be able to get one easily. you might have to study and get your license first, i don’t know. also the cost of living in NC is much less than NJ so you will not be starting behind the curve.
    next, i would decide what kind of schooling would be best and go for that while working as a nursing assistant. i also think nursing is a better career than sonography in that it would give you more options and perhaps better pay as well, and so might be something you would want to look into.

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  2. mtwaites on October 26, 2009 4:44 am

    These are two relatively different fields.
    Medical sonographer involves working with a varied type of patients to figure out diagnostic problems such as infectious, viral, cancers, and other things that might be within the person’s body. This is where you’re working in a rather secure area, and also you’re working with one or two people or patients at a time. You’re normally working in the hospital setting or in a clinical setting.
    A correctional officer is often working in the prison, or correctional facility. You are sometimes working with people who have varying criminal offenses or drug or other violations. You are working in a very secured area, but you are working with high risk people. If you’re a smaller lady, then this field may not be as good of a field, although it pays well.
    If you haven’t been able to get any jobs as a nursing assistant, and your license needs to be renewed, then take some refresher courses in this, and then see if you are able to get a practicum to practice some of the skills again, and then you never know, you will be offered a job,.
    Good luck!

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