Promising Jobs: Paths to nursing can be direct or winding
VTDigger
Our series highlights how people join what a Vermont Department of Labor survey found are the four most in-demand professions that pay a higher-than-average wage. Today: nursing. Previously: teaching, carpentry and bookkeeping.
On the ground floor below a Paint and Sip studio, across the street from the temporary digs of Burlington High School in the old Macy’s store, students at Burlington Technical Center’s Health Science Academy are getting a jump on their college degree.
In addition to courses that can earn them 17 college credits, students can enroll in a certification program for phlebotomy (technicians who collect blood samples) and an EMT certification program. The students spend half a day at the academy, and the rest of the time at their high school.