Anyone know anything about Public Health Educator career ?

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Are you or anyone who know a Public Health Educator ? What is the job like ? Is it in demand and how's the salary ?

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Demand and salary vary from region to region. This is the same with any nursing job. Hopefully someone will be able to come in and give you a personal view, but if not, I found this at What is Public Health?. It actually sounds pretty interesting.

http://www.whatispublichealth.org/careers/PfizerGuide/NurseEd.pdf

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Specializes in Geriatric Nursing.

Duties of carrying out the many services required to keep the population healthy and to prevent serious outbreaks of disease are divided among local, state, and federal government agencies. They provide health officers and nurses for the schools and visiting nurses for the home. They oversee the water supply, the disposal of sewage, the production and distribution of milk, and the proper handling of food in restaurants. Public health agencies impose standards of public health on local communities when needed; they give financial and technical assistance to local communities in time of crisis, such as that caused by epidemics, hurricanes, and floods.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

My friend earned a bachelor of science degree in public health from a private university back in 2001, and after accruing $48,000 in student loan debt, was unable to find a job that paid a decent salary. All of the gigs that she landed with her degree had paid salaries of less than $30,000 annually. She decided to attend an LPN program a few years later because her grade point average of 2.6 was not really competitive enough to get admitted into local RN programs. Let's just say that working as an LPN increased her salary by about $10,000 per year. She is now an RN.

I am cognizant that career pathways are not all about the money. However, tread very carefully before getting into debt to pursue a degree program that might very well lead to limited and low-paying job opportunities.

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Specializes in Psych and Substance Abuse.

It depends on what you want to do and where you want to work. I have a bachelors in health promotion. I also have the CHES certification. Jobs are not plentiful, but I was lucky enough to get a job at the state level. Awesome benefits and guaranteed raises 3 times a year. I make WAY more than I did as an LPN. So it's not all bad!

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Demand and salary vary from region to region. This is the same with any nursing job. Hopefully someone will be able to come in and give you a personal view, but if not, I found this at What is Public Health?. It actually sounds pretty interesting.

http://www.whatispublichealth.org/careers/PfizerGuide/NurseEd.pdf

Thanks for the links !

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My friend earned a bachelor of science degree in public health from a private university back in 2001, and after accruing $48,000 in student loan debt, was unable to find a job that paid a decent salary. All of the gigs that she landed with her degree had paid salaries of less than $30,000 annually. She decided to attend an LPN program a few years later because her grade point average of 2.6 was not really competitive enough to get admitted into local RN programs. Let's just say that working as an LPN increased her salary by about $10,000 per year. She is now an RN.

I am cognizant that career pathways are not all about the money. However, tread very carefully before getting into debt to pursue a degree program that might very well lead to limited and low-paying job opportunities.

Hopefully this is because of your friend's location lol.What state did she find a job in of you don't mind me asking?

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I have two acquaintances/colleagues who are non-nurse public health educators. They are both ridiculously underemployed, both in terms of professional opportunities and in terms of salary. Both are working part-time/prn because that's all the work they can get in our area, and they don't get paid much. (Fortunately, they both have husbands who are the primary breadwinners in the family.) In several conversations I've had with them, they were pretty envious that I (and other nurses) can do pretty much everything they can do (professionally), but get paid a lot more $$$ for doing it (and nurses also have a much wider range of professional opportunities and career paths than they do).

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I have two acquaintances/colleagues who are non-nurse public health educators. They are both ridiculously underemployed, both in terms of professional opportunities and in terms of salary. Both are working part-time/prn because that's all the work they can get in our area, and they don't get paid much. (Fortunately, they both have husbands who are the primary breadwinners in the family.) In several conversations I've had with them, they were pretty envious that I (and other nurses) can do pretty much everything they can do (professionally), but get paid a lot more $$$ for doing it (and nurses also have a much wider range of professional opportunities and career paths than they do).

I guess I'll continue on with my health career exploration lol.i want to do something I'll enjoy,but I want to get paid a descent salary.I'm not going to lie.Any salary below $45,000 is just absurd.A entry level job in PH will land you a salary of $33,000 which I wouldn't be able to survive on.Getting a master's degree would boost my salary,but jobs are scarce! I don't want to waste my time.

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