Do you enjoy working with people and solving health problems? If you have a keen interest in caring for patients, health and wellness, and want to help people recover from injury and disease, a career as a nursing practitioner could be a strong fit for you.  Patients need an empathetic and well-trained nurse to help them through the critical stages of illness and treatment, and you can help restore them back to good health as a nurse practitioner (NP).

As a parish nurse, you will blend your medical knowledge with your spiritual beliefs. Central to a parish nurse's work is the idea that faith is important to total healing. Parish nurses do not simply rely on prayer, but rather believe that a patient's spiritual strength will support them through the medical tests and treatments they face. It is your responsibility as a parish nurse to help the patient understand the medical side, and comfort them through the spiritual side. Rather than working in a hospital, as a parish nurse, your healing skills will be around a specific congregation or community.

Do you enjoy working with older people? Geriatric Nursing is a field that continues to grow as our population ages. A geriatric nurse is a nurse practitioner that, similar to a clinical nurse, has continued their education, but focused it on adults over retirement age. You will help patients manage their physical and emotional needs.

If you feel called to work in a specific area of medicine, you might want to consider becoming a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS). As a CNS (as with nurse practitioners), you can work in hospitals, assisted-care facilities, homes, or even have your own practice. However, unlike nurse practitioners, you will only work in the specialty field you chose, be it pediatrics, nephrology, or the emergency room.

If you are self-reliant, you might want to look into becoming a nurse practitioner. Similar to clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners have advanced, master's-level education. As an NP, you will learn how to diagnose common ailments, perform routine tests, prescribe medication, and work closely with patients to meet their health needs. Nurse practitioners can have their own practice, or work in hospitals and assisted-living facilities.

If you can stay organized when work is pulling you four different ways at once, you would make a perfect medical assistant. As a medical assistant you will work in a doctor's office or hospital where you will manage files, coordinate schedules, handle the bookkeeping, aide doctors in routine exams, and pretty much do everything that needs doing. Sounds a bit stressful? You can take charge and manage it like no one else.

Television hospital dramas often show the operating room clean and prepared with every instrument. But, in reality, who is in charge of ensuring that operations go off without a hitch? That person would be the surgical technician. If you are the type of person who is interested in working in the medical field and believes that it is always best to be organized, this may be the position for you.

When you hear ultrasound technician (also known as sonographer or ultrasonographer), you might first think of babies. And you would be right. But as an ultrasound technician, you would also have the opportunity to aide doctors in discovering cancer, heart disease, and other life-threatening illnesses in patients.