subject: Nursing as a Career [print this page] Nurses are also in demand in medical-related fields outside of direct patient care. Nurses work as programmers and systems analysts in biomedical equipment companies and as analysts and claims adjudicators in health insurance companies, to name a few. Although no longer the primary technical career path for women as it was before the social revolutions of the 1960s, women still make up the majority of the nursing workforce, but many more men are also finding nursing to be a rewarding career path.
