Health Care Careers

1. Health Care Careers Mrs. Jessica Dean

2. Daily Objectives • Compare the educational requirements for associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees • Contrast certification, registration, and licensure

3. Educational Requirements • Depend on many factors • Can vary from state to state • Some basic standards do exist

4. Secondary Education • Refers to basic preparation in high school • Includes major core courses • Keyboarding, computer applications, and accounting skills can be utilized in many health careers

5. Health science technology education(HSTE) • Secondary career/technical program in health occupations • Prepare students for immediate employment in many health careers • Also prepare students for additional education after graduation

6. Postsecondary Education • Education received after graduation from high school • Includes education in career/technical schools, community colleges, and universities

7. Types of degrees • Associate degree • Awarded by career/tech school or community college • Requires completion of prescribed two-year course of study

8. Bachelor’s degree • Awarded by college or university • Requires completion of prescribed course of study that usually lasts for four or more years

9. Master’s degree • Awarded by college or university • Requires completion of one or more years beyond a bachelor’s degree

10. Doctorate, doctoral or doctor’s degree • Awarded by college or university • Requires completion of two or more years beyond a bachelor’s or master’s degree • Some require four to six years of additional study

11. Certification, registration, licensure • Methods used to ensure skill and competency of health care personnel and protect consumer or patient • Certificate or statement is issued if person fulfills requirements of education and performance and meets standards and qualifications established • Ex: certified dental assistant, certified laboratory technician, certified medical assistant

12. Registration • Required in some health careers • Done by regulatory body (professional associations or state boards) in health care area • Administer examinations and maintain current list of qualified personnel • Ex: registered dietitian, registered respiratory therapy, registered radiologic technologist

13. Licensure • Government agency authorizes individuals to work in a given occupation • Usually require a person to • Complete an approved educational program • Pass a state board test • Maintain certain standard to obtain and retain licensure Ex: physicians, dentists, physical therapist, registered nurses, licensed practical/vocational nurses

14. Usually graduation from an accredited program required before certification, registration, or licensure will be granted • Ensures program of study meets established quality competency standards • Important to make sure school has accredited programs before enrolling

15. Continuing Education units (CEUs) • Required to renew licenses or to maintain certification or registration in many states • Individual must obtain additional hours of education in the specific health care career during a specified period of time

16. Training • Professional • Usually requires four or more years of college and an advanced degree • Ex: medical doctor, dentist

17. Technologist or therapist • Requires three or four years of college in addition to work experience • Ex: medical laboratory technologist, physical therapist, speech therapist

18. Technician • Usually requires two-year associate degree, HSTE, or three to four years of on-the-job training • Ex: dental lab tech, medical lab tech, surgical tech

19. Assistant or aide • Usually requires up to one or more years of training that combines classroom and/or on-the-job experience • Ex: dental, medical, or nurse assistant

20. Daily objectives: • Describe therapeutic health care careers along with duties, educational requirements, and employment opportunities • Interpret abbreviations used to identify therapeutic health career workers

21. Five career clusters • Therapeutic services careers • Diagnostic services careers • Health informatics careers • Support services careers • Biotechnology research and development careers

22. Directed toward changing the health status of the patient over time. Workers use a variety of treatments to help patients who are injured, physically or mentally disabled, or emotionally disturbed. Treatment is directed toward allowing patients to function at maximum capacity. Therapeutic services:

23. Dental Careers • Job duties • Concerned with health of teeth and soft tissues of mouth • Places of employment • Private dental offices, labs, clinics, dental departments in schools, hospitals, health departments • Specialty areas • General dentistry, endodontic, orthodontics, oral surgery, pedodontics, periodontics, prosthodontics

24. Levels of Dental Workers • Dentists (DMD or DDS) • Dental hygienists • Dental lab tech • Dental assistants

25. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) • Job duties • Provide emergency, prehospital care • Provide care to victims of accidents, injuries, and sudden illness • Places of employment • Fire/police department, rescue squads, hospital ER, urgent care centers, industry, emergency helicopter or life flight services, military

26. Levels of Workers • First responder • Emergency Medical Technician basic (EMT-B) • Emergency Medical Technician Defibrillator (EMT-D) • Emergency Medical Technician Intermediate (EMT-I) • Emergency medical Technician Paramedic (EMT-P)

27. Medical Careers • Job duties • Involved with diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of diseases and disorders of human body • Places of employment • Private practices, clinics, hospitals, public health agencies, research facilities, HMOs, government agencies, colleges or universities

28. Levels of Workers • Physicians (doctors) • Doctor of Medicine (MD) • Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) • Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) • Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) • Physician assistants • Pathology assistants • Medical assistants

29. Mental and Social Services • Job duties • Mental services: deal with mental or emotional disorders • Social workers: help people deal with illness, employment, or community problems • Places of employment • Hospitals, psychiatric clinics, home health agencies, public health departments, government agencies, counseling centers, prisons, long-term care facilities

30. Levels of workers • Psychiatrists • Psychologists • Psychiatric/mental health technicians • Social workers • Genetic counselors

31. Mortuary Careers • Job duties • Preparation of the body • Cremation or burial of the remains • Places of employment • Funeral homes/mortuaries, crematoriums, cemetery associations

32. Levels of Workers • Funeral directors/morticians/undertakers • Embalmers • Mortuary assistants

33. Nursing Careers • Job duties • Provide care for a patient under direction of physician • Direct care at mental, emotional, and physical needs of the patient • Places of employment • hospitals, long-term care facilities, rehab centers, physicians’ office, clinics, public health agencies, home health agencies, HMOs, schools, industry, government agencies

34. Levels of workers • Registered Nurses (RN) • Nurse practitioners (CRNP) • Nurse midwives (CNM) • Nurse educators • Nurse anesthetists • Clinical nurse specialist (CNS) • Licensed Practical/Vocational nurse (LPN/LVN) • Nurse assistants

35. Nutrition and Dietary Services • Job duties • Recognize importance good nutrition has on health • Promote wellness and optimum health • Provide dietary guidelines to treat various diseases • Prepare food for health facilities • Places of employment • Hospitals, long-term care facilities, child/adult daycare facilities, wellness centers, schools, clinic

36. Levels of workers • Dieticians or nutritionists • Dietetic technicians

37. Veterinary careers • Job duties • Work with all types of animals from house pets to livestock to wildlife • Places of employment • Animal hospitals, vet offices, labs, zoos, farms, animal shelters, aquarium, drug or animal food companies, fish and wildlife services

38. Levels of workers • Veterinarians (DVM or VMD) • Veterinary technologists/technicians (VTR) • Veterinarian assistants or aides

39. Vision Services careers • Job duties • Provide care to prevent and treat vision disorders • Places of employment • Offices, optical shops, department stores, hospitals, schools, government agencies, clinics

40. Level of workers • Ophthalmologist • Optometrists (OD) • Ophthalmic medical technologists (OMTs) • Ophthalmic technicians (OTs) • Ophthalmic assistants (OAs) • Opticians • Ophthalmic laboratory technicians

41. Other therapeutic careers • Occupational Therapy (OT) • Occupational Therapy assistants (OTA) • Help people with physical, developmental, mental, or emotional disabilities • Physical Therapist (PT) • Physical Therapy assistant (PTA) • Provide treatment for disabling joint, bone, muscle, an/or nerve injury or disease

42. Pharmacists (Pharm D) • Pharmacy technicians • Dispense medications and provide information on drugs and the correct ways to use them • Massage therapist • Use massage, bodywork, and therapeutic touch to muscles to provide pain relief • Recreational therapist (TR) • Recreational therapy assistant

43. Respiratory therapy (RT) • Respiratory therapy technician (RTT) • Administer oxygen, gases or medications for heart and lung diseases • Surgical technicians • Set up operating room with equipment and prepare patient for surgery • Speech-language pathologist • Identify, evaluate, and treat patients with speech and language disorders

44. Audiologists • Test hearing, diagnose problems, and prescribe treatment • Art, music, and dance therapists Deal with social, physical, or emotional problems • Athletic trainers (AT) • Prevent and treat athletic injuries • Dialysis technicians • Operate kidney hemodialysis machine and monitor patients

45. Perfusionists • Operate heart/lung machine

46. Daily Objectives • Describe diagnostic health care careers along with duties, educational requirements, and employment opportunities • Interpret abbreviations used to identify diagnostic health career workers

47. Diagnostic Service Careers • Job duties • Create a picture of the health status of a patient at a specific point in time • Perform tests or evaluations • Places of employment • Hospital labs, private labs, outpatient centers, doctor’s offices, clinics, public health agencies, drug firms, research or governmental agencies

48. Types of workers • Electrocardiograph (ECG) technician • Electroencephalographic (EEG) technologist • Medical laboratory technologist (MT) • Medical laboratory technician • Phlebotomist • Collect blood and prepare it for testing

49. Radiologic technologists (RT) • Work with x-rays, radiation, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance to diagnose and treat disease • Radiographers • Nuclear medicine technologists • Ultrasound technologists • Mammographer • Computer tomography technologist (CT) • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) • Positron tomography technologist (PET)

50. Daily Objectives • Describe health informatics, support services, and biomedical health care careers along with duties, educational requirements, and employment opportunities • Interpret abbreviations used to identify health career workers