What can I do with an EKG certification besides nursing?

Is EKG Certification a waste of money? or can it lead to a rewarding career?

• I am in sales and I want a complete career change. I am interested in health care but have no college experience or health care whatsoever. The community college offers a EKG ...show more

• Answer:

  I'm not sure that there are too many jobs for an ekg tech. If wanting to take an ekg course, please opt for the more affordable county vo-tech school or community college as opposed to those private $$ tech schools as long as the program is accredited within the industry. With radiography, perhaps look at the link from the other postee for accredited programs. Please keep in mind that the curriculum is supposed to be quite intense along with one of the prerequisites being 'technical physics'. Each school, regardless of the major or course of study, may have different prerequisites so it's best to check with the individual school(s) that one is looking into attending. Regardless of which program that you'd like to attend, please steer clear of those online, for-profit schools such as penn foster, capella, everest, sanford brown, university of phoenix, ashworth, kaplan and others as they are merely out to 'make a profit' (and course credits may not transfer): http://www.ripoffreport.com and can type into search. For US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ For general career info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search 'radiologic technologists' or such.