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Landing a job with good pay, great benefits, and a promising future is a rare find in today's economy. Nursing offers all of that and the jobs are plentiful.

"It's a secure, stable environment that has lots of opportunity," said Lucretia Craig, Freeman Chief Nursing Officer.

Freeman Health System's chief nursing officer says the dynamic environment that we live in allows the health care field to attract many different professionals.

"Everything from respiratory therapy, X-ray technology, which is actually radiology technology, operating room technicians, EKG technicians," said Craig.

That list goes on. Physicians and nurses are 2 of the top jobs that often remain unfilled, leaving plenty of opportunity for people like Missouri Southern State University Nursing Graduate Kori Buck.

"I graduated on May 11th and I started working on the floor May 17th. It was immediate patient care, immediately dive in to what I went to school for and what I wanted to do," said Kori Buck, G.N. Freeman Health System Nurse.

Buck says the 2 years of intense studying in nursing school definitely pays off.

"You get medical, dental, and vision. You get life insurance, paid days off, vacation time and disability," said Buck.

To Buck, it's more than a secure way to make a living.

"There's a sense of pride, knowing that you've done your job to the best of your ability," said Buck.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics, there are still 577,000 job openings in health care and social assistance 216,000 of those in nursing alone.


Search for jobs at some of the hospitals in southwest Missouri:


http://www.freemanhealth.com/careers
http://www.jobs.net/jobs/mercy/search/state/missouri/

http://www.coxhealth.com/body.cfm?id=1725
http://www.citizensmemorial.com/careers/