Compare careers
Factual side-by-side attributes from the imported O*NET and BLS OEWS datasets. No career is ranked or recommended.
Career A (or your current career)
Critical Care Nurses
Career B (or your target career)
Emergency Medicine Physicians
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Comparison table
| Metric | Critical Care Nurses | Emergency Medicine Physicians |
|---|---|---|
| National median salary | $97,550 | $335,550 |
| Local median salary | Not published | Not published |
| National employment | 3,379,720 | 32,880 |
| Typical education | Bachelor's Degree | Post-Doctoral Training |
| Job zone | 4 | 5 |
| Important skills | Monitoring, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Active Listening, Service Orientation | Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Social Perceptiveness, Speaking |
| Related careers | Hospitalists, Pediatric Surgeons, Pediatricians, General, Family Medicine Physicians | Critical Care Nurses, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Neurologists, Registered Nurses |
Career transition: skill overlap
Skill overlap
90%
18 of 20 target skills
Target-only skills
2
Current-only skills
2
Skill overlap compares O*NET skills rated at importance 3.0 or above for each occupation. It is a measure of listed skill overlap, not a probability of getting the job.
Shared skills
- Critical Thinking+0.6 level
- Active Listening+0.6 level
- Social Perceptiveness+0.6 level
- Speaking+0.3 level
- Reading Comprehension+1.1 level
- Judgment and Decision Making+0.5 level
- Writing+0.1 level
- Monitoring+0.3 level
- Service Orientation+0.3 level
- Complex Problem Solving+1.0 level
- Coordination+0.1 level
- Active Learning+0.4 level
- Learning Strategies+0.4 level
- Instructing+0.4 level
- Persuasion+0.4 level
- Negotiation+0.3 level
- Time Management—
- Science—
Only in Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Evaluation
Only in Critical Care Nurses
- Operations Monitoring
- Management of Personnel Resources