Why Healthcare Is A Great Career for Moms

Being a mom is a great career with a few notable exceptions. Chief among those exceptions is that the pay is lousy. The reward of warm fuzzies, the feeling of a job well done, and the glow of happy faces when you tuck them in at night does not get the bills paid. For that, and a thousand and one other good reasons, moms usually require a second career.

As “Madeleine Albright famously said, “Women can have it all, just not at the same time.” So with a little care and planning, a woman can have children and a career. It is just a matter of choosing the right timing, and also the right career that best fits her circumstances. Many moms find healthcare to be the perfect fit. There are a number of reasons why that is. Here are three:

Flexible Back-to-School Schedule

If there’s one thing moms don’t have much of, it is a lot of spare time. But that pairs well with one of the things moms do best: time management. No one knows how they juggle all the schedules and still find time to provide a healthy meal. But when a job needs to be done and time is at a premium, it’s mom to the rescue.

The online accelerated nursing programs found at many leading schools provide just the right balance between the highest level of academic expectation, and flexibility with regard to schedule and length of program. Accelerated courses take into account your prior academic and life experience, giving you as much credit for what you have already done as possible. This means that moms who may have already started a degree or done prior work in the field will have a leg up on their career of choice.

They’ve Already Mastered Job One

We know that not every mother is the paragon of nurturing compassion. But if a genetic disposition for nurture is ever to be found, it will be in good mothers. They take to the job of nurture with skills that can’t be taught in school. Time Magazine even suggests that Nurturing moms may even boost children’s brain growth. It seems that the nurturing moms are already well qualified to deliver. 

Anyone who has spent significant time in a hospital already knows just how important a good nurse can be. The doctors may be making the calls behind the scenes, but it is the nurse that is on the other end of the call button. It is the nurse that has the power to make you feel better. No one does that quite like a mom.

Mom’s Are Already Amateur Medics

None but the wealthiest among us can afford to take her children to the doctor for every bump and sniffle over the course of their first 18 years. But someone has to tend to it. More often than not, that someone is a mom who is not formally trained in the medical arts. She has changed more diapers, cleaned up more blood, and could write a more comprehensive essay on the varieties of gross body fluid than most second-year med students. 

The only thing she lacks is the formal education that updates those old wive’s tales to something a bit more scientific. Every mother would benefit from the kind of training that would make them a better nurse, as that is just one of the many hats they already have to wear. Moms have already breezed passed the stage where the uncommitted nursing student would have already washed out. It seems a shame not to top off all that practical experience with a career-building degree.

Make no mistake about it, even with flexible learning schedules, a predisposition for nurture, and practical healing experience, being a nurse is not easy. Then again, being a good mom is not easy. And if you are already doing the one, there is no reason you shouldn’t complete the other.