Pharmacists: where your skills can take you
Dispense drugs prescribed by physicians and other health practitioners and provide information to patients about medications and their use. May advise physicians and other health practitioners on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medications.
Most common qualification in Australia: a bachelor degree (70% of workers, 2021 Census) · Australian median pay for Pharmacists: A$101,700 full-time (Jobs and Skills Australia) · AHPRA registration (Pharmacy Board)
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Three moves that use what a pharmacist already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Physician Assistants
🧰 Your current job already uses sound judgement, reading people, looking after customers and clients and solving difficult problems.
🎓 A degree. About the same level of study as your job, but in a different field: it leans on Therapy and Counseling and on Psychology, which your job does not use much. The most common level in the US is a master's degree or higher (95%).
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Provide healthcare services typically performed by a physician, under the supervision of a physician. Conduct complete physicals, provide treatment, and counsel patients. May, in some cases, prescribe medication. Must graduate from an accredited educational program for physician assistants.
Dietitians and Nutritionists
🧰 Your current job already uses sound judgement, reading people, looking after customers and clients and solving difficult problems.
🎓 A degree. This job has its own professional qualification, and it asks for more study than your current job. The most common level in Australia is a postgraduate qualification (50%).
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Plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease. May supervise activities of a department providing quantity food services, counsel individuals, or conduct nutritional research.
Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
🧰 Your current job already uses teaching other people, sound judgement, reading people and solving difficult problems.
🎓 A degree. About the same level of study as your job, but in a different field: it leans on Education and Training and on Psychology, which your job does not use much. The most common level in the US is a master's degree or higher (95%).
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Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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