We live in a highly specialized age. New industries and professions spring up as established sectors break down into smaller categories. Driven by wealth of detail in an increasingly complex world, employers and clients prefer to hire specialists rather than generalists. That decision is often based on cost-effectiveness. And with so much more to know about everything, it pays to specialize in your areas of interest.

This is particularly true in medical profession. As society becomes more health conscious, general awareness of cause and effect is bringing health issues into mainstream of daily life. Medicine no longer happens entirely within walls of a hospital. Nurses find themselves in other settings, playing roles of social workers, detectives or attorneys. These new career paths offer an expanding range of professional benefits, including career advancement, job security, and even self-employment opportunities. So, how can you get there from where you are now?

Kaplan University’s Health Care Pathways Programs This is where a school like Kaplan University enters picture. As an institution with almost 70 years’ experience in preparing adults for rewarding careers, Kaplan offers Health Care Pathways, an online program for nurses, therapists, social workers, and anyone whose professional life is moving into convergence of these fields.

There are five certificates available through Health Care Pathways, each addressing a growing need within or related to medical profession.

Geriatric Care Management Certificate A Geriatric Care Manager (GCM) arranges health and human services for senior citizens whose self-care abilities are in decline. A GCM will assess his or her patient’s needs, coordinate services required, and monitor situation for ongoing effectiveness. If you have a passion for helping elderly and are trained as a registered nurse, medical doctor, physical or occupational therapist, social worker, case manager, or psychologist, you can easily enter this profession with Kaplan’s GCM certificate. Although AARP statistics put average hourly rate at $74, this could vary widely depending on your background, number of cases you choose to handle, and whether you work for a government or insurance agency, home health care or long-term care service, social service agency or as an independent consultant.

When did 'Greek Fire' actually become a useful weapon and how did oil become napalm? What science was lost during and after this apparently protracted period of war between ideologies? There is no clear nation or alliance of city-states that existed before or after this truly horrific period or centuries of warfare that began with ouster of Ariadne from Crete, if not before. We think natural gas was used in conjunction with phosphorus and other chemicals known to agents during this war but that it didn't produce kind of heat that vitrifies rock. I think Biblical stories of bringing down walls of Jericho may relate to ultrasound or 'the lost chord'.

It is highly likely that allegiances shifted and new alliances or combatants came and went. The Kelts of Danube area including Amazons may even have separated from their Thracian neighbors and Uighurs may have gained a lot by associating with Semitic remnants of a previously Phoenician Anatolian group including Sargon and Hammurabi whose ethics clearly went against women or egalitarian modes of previous island powers. The Milesians who went to Epirus and later Etruria (the Bruttii) clearly escaped according to Trojan chronicle of Homer and their own historians. Pont and Armenians would seem to be Hittites who were still known to have given women right to own land like their brother Hurrians in era 2000 BC. according to Agatha Christie and her archaeologist husband; but perhaps they agreed to fight despite this on behalf of their neighbors who were patristic. Maybe they remained neutral like Canada did in Viet Nam or as neutral as others who sell themselves to highest bidder during protracted conflicts.