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Overview
Nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide is a program that prepares individuals to perform routine nursing-related services to patients in hospitals or long-term care facilities, under the training and supervision of a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse.
Highlights
School with the highest reported median starting salary ($60K) with a Certificate: Best Care College
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Careers for program graduates
Nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
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Current completions
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Completions over time
Have completions for medical assisting services changed over time? Increasing completions may mean you'll likely have an easier time finding a school that offers this degree, with the opposite being true as well.
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Salary and Debt
How are students who recently completed a degree in nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide doing?
Below is the distribution of starting salaries along with accumulated federal and private education loans across schools that offer a degree in the field practical nursing, vocational nursing and nursing assistants, which includes
nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide.
Careers
Recommended careers for those with a degree in medical assisting services
Those who study Medical Assisting Services (which combines 2 programs) may be prepared to work as:
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Where can I complete this degree
Explore schools that offer nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide degrees and certificates
You can use this table to find schools that offer this program based on location and program level offered. Each entry goes to a school page similar to this one with all our information about that school.
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The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an idea of the educational quality each school might offer:
Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Careers for medical assisting services majors
medical assisting services is part of a larger collection of programs: Nursing Aids. Is there a different program that's close to medical assisting services that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
Gender
Gender of recent graduates
Of all people with any degree in nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide earned in the last academic year, 88% were women.
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Context: Gender representation
How does the gender distribution in this major compare to all other majors?
Context: Percentage women
This major has a higher percentage of women than 90% other programs.
Distribution: salaries by gender
Does gender greatly influence your salary with this degree? The closer the bar are, the less discrepancy there is.
Context: Salary inequity
For medical assisting services graduates, men have a 54% higher median salary than women, This is high: 98% of programs have graduates with lower salary inequities.
Race/Origin
Race/Origin of recent graduates
Here is an overview of race/origin for all nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide graduates from this last academic year. We found a lower percentage of international graduates than in 64% of other programs.
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Asian
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Completions over time
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Context: Percentage of Minority Graduates
Minority students comprise a lower percentage of graduates than in 45% of other programs.
