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Opportunities in the Healthcare Profession


One of the ways the African Scientific Institute fulfills its objectives to excite African Americans about science and technology is to point ways towards job opportunities.  To this end, ASI has been working on one such campaign through career opportunities in healthcare professions.

This Campaign is called: Reaching Out to the Black Community!

ASI’s strategies to address shortages include , but are not limited to:

  • Exposing, motivating, assisting and supporting underrepresented Black

teens and adults, in pursuing careers in the healthcare field.
  • Increasing the pool of African-Americans in healthcare schools and the healthcare workforce, with a special emphasis on nursing.
  • Assisting to address the nation’s nursing and other healthcare personnel

shortages, while simultaneously addressing the under-employment and unemployment crisis among African-American adults and teens.

Partnering with healthcare schools, hospitals, and other employers to recruit and retain individuals of color in the healthcare field.

  • Spotlighting and exposing nursing and other healthcare role models.

Why the emphasis on nursing?

In comparing healthcare career choices, nursing provides more options, when considering education and training time, specialties, job portability and wages.

After completing an Associates’ Degree in nursing and successfully passing the State’s licensing exam, new RN graduates at entry level can earn hourly wages averaging $35 to $40 per hour in the Bay Area. For those who might consider working in another state or out of the country, nursing careers are in demand. Canada for example, has a nursing and nursing instructors’ shortage.

In closing, healthcare career doesn’t automatically mean a hospital job or care of the sick. Healthcare careers have many facets. You can work in healthcare planning and administration, health education, disease prevention, coding, research, computer support and many other important and challenging fields.

Additional information on ASI’s Five Year Campaign: Reaching Out to the Black Community, contact: Outreach Coordinator & ASI Consultant, Carlos Kimathi, P.O. Box 2895, Salinas, CA 93902, or phone 1-866-305-2593