Health Careers Final

take x-rays, sterilize and prep rooms, perform office management tasks, and inform about dental care. (community college board exam)

dental assistant

screen patients for dentist, clean teeth, apply fluoride, x-rays. (associates degree and board exam)

dental hygienist

take x-rays, sterilize and prep rooms, perform office management tasks, and inform about dental care. (community college board exam)

dental assistant

screen patients for dentist, clean teeth, apply fluoride, x-rays. (associates degree and board exam)

dental hygienist

fill cavities, diagnose oral cavities, preform oral surgery, practice orthodontics. (bachelors degree and dental school plus exam)

dentist

diagnose / treat patients with hearing and balance problems, make rehab plans, recommend / dispense / and test hearing aids. ( doctoral )

audiologist

measure, analyze, and image heart, report results to see extent of damage, review and record med history, maintain equipment. ( associates )

cardiovascular technologist

use imaging equipment on body tissue, disease mass, organs, babies, medical history, and explain procedures. (1-4 year education and certification exam)

diagnostic medical sonographer

execute blood volume, explain tests, prepare tests, position scanners on patients. (associates with 1 year program at hospital)

nuclear medicine technologist

uses radiation tools, preps patients, places equipment, maintains equipment. (associates)

radiographer

works with people who have cancer, maintains equipment, records medical records. (1-4 years education)

radiation therapy

provide direct care to patients, teach in clinical settings, work as researchers, consultants, or nurse managers. (masters)

Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)

interview patients on drug use, allergies, and family history, manage patients airway, control breathing, monitor vital sings, and give anesthesia. (masters degree from CRNA program)

Nurse Anesthetist

Provide care for healthy women through child birth, provide emotional and physical support to mother, assist in labor and delivery. (masters)

Nurse Midwife

Diagnose and assess patient conditions while working with physicians, conduct health screenings and physical exams, prescribe tests and educate patients. (masters)

Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Provide basic beside care such as temperature, pulse, breathing, and blood pressure checks, as well as give injections and mediation. Change dressings, evaluate patient needs, implement care plans, and supervise CNAs. (associates)

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Answer patient call lights, serve meals, check vitals, visit patients while helping them change position, walk, and bathe, and eat. Assist with medications, changing clothes. ( State approved training program)

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

gather and evaluate diet health, assist in planning patient meals, provide nutritional counseling. (associates and exam)

Dietetic technician

make diet recommendations, provide advice, council, study nutritional value of food. (Bachelors, ADA exam, internship)

dietitian

meeting legal, admin, and medical requirements, create systems to organize files, determined polices and budgets, supervise. (2 or 4 years and take exam but can go onto masters)

health information manager

review and check accuracy on files, assign code numbers to symptoms, disease, and operations, supervise. (associates and licensing test)

health information technician

listen to voice recordings that physicians make and then make into written reports. Interpret med terms and abbreviations to prepare med history and discharge summary. (associates and licensing test)

Medical transcriptionist

select and quire book and journals, establish electronic and digital database into systems, develop catalog for access and provide reference assistance, coordinate and control budgets and supervise. (2-4 years of education)

health science librarian

use a code system to assign code numbers and letters to each thing on a patient chart. (associates and exam)

Medical coder

create graphics, prepare illustrations, aid research about artificial body parts. (major in art and minor in science or opposite and a national exam)

medical illustrator

type letters, take dictation, maintain files, update records, take calls, greet patients, take history, establish charts, make appointments, prepare bills, record payments, and complete insurance files. (associates degree)

medical secretary

Develop conditioning and nutritional programs to help athletes prevent injuries, supervise the treatments and rehab prescribed by physicians when injuries occur. (Exam, bachelors, 1500 hours of clinical)

Athletic Trainer

Respond to health care crisis, proceed with medical care under the direction of a physicians. (EMT course)

EMT's / Paramedics

Operate heat-lung machine during heart bypass and open heart surgery. (masters and supervised for 150 surgery's)

Perfusionist

Check charts, position patients on operation table, and provide emotion support. Prepare skin and help apply equipment monitoring devices. Maintain sterility. During an operation, operate lights, suction machines, and diagnosis equipment, pass instruments. (Associates)

surgical technologist

Prepare patients for exams by taking vital signs, assist with first aid, collect and process specimens, and preform ordered tests, schedule appointments, prepare and maintain patient records, and arrange hospital admissions. Type reports, process insurance forms, and keep financial records. (Certification exam and associates)

Medical Assistant

dispensing prescriptions to patients, conduction of heath screenings, giving immunizations, advising on safe use of meds. (Doctoral degree and pass multiple exams)

Pharmacist

prepare prescriptions and refill requests, packing and preparing med labels and bottles, process insurance claims. (optional associates degree)

pharmacy technician

collect blood and test for type, establish and manage donor and frozen blood program, manage blood bank, teach other employees. (bachelors and certification)

blood bank technology specialist

mount sample of the body's cells on slides and study under a microscope. Report findings to a pathologist. (Bachelors)

cytotechnologist

prepare slides of tissue (bachelors)

histology technician/histotechnologist

collect, type, and group blood under the supervision of pathologists. Preform routine tests on the body's blood, tissue, and fluids. Keep records and sterilize equipment. Use tools to gather data. (Associates)

Medical Laboratory Technician

Use microscopes, computers, and chemicals to prepare and study body tissues and fluids providing data so doctors and researchers and determine the presence and extent of disease. (bachelors)

Medical Technologist

Work in the laboratory collecting and processing blood to be analyzed. (bachelors)

Phlebotomist

apply art form to improve communication, interview patients and communicate to other professionals, maintain records. (masters and state exam)

Creative arts/ recrational therapist

use physical excessive to hep increase patient strength and use computer programs to help clients improve critical thinking, and help patients use adaptive materials to live every day life. (masters and exam)

Occupational therapist

prepare materials and equipment used during treatment, preform clerical duties, help treatment plan made by OT. (associates and exam)

Occupational Therapist assistant

Preform under PT vision, help make therapy sessions productive, keep area clean and ready. (associates and CPR certified)

Physical Therapist Assistant

use movement exercises to develop endurance coordination and muscle strength. work with patients to overcome emotional and physical barriers. (Doctoral degree and exam)

Physical Therapist

member of the radiation oncology team, generate radiation dose distributions and dose calculations. (bachelors and year of clinical)

medical dosimetrist

provide care for anyone with an artificial limb, provide range of splints, braces, and special footwear, provide best artificial replacement for patient. (bachelors and 1 year residency and certification exam)

prothetist / orthotist

assess patients and use written and oral tests to diagnose. (masters and 300 hours of clinical)

speech and language pathologist

assist radiologist and oncologist by treating disease and exposing patients bodies to radiation and maintaining equipment. (1-4 year program and exam)

radiation therapy technologist

testing patients for lung abnormalities and setting up equipment, and measure lung compasity. (associates and exam)

respiratory therapist

set ventilators and other equipment, explain treatments, monitor patients. (1 year program and exam)

respiratory therapy exam

help families work through conflicts by improving communication and relationships. (masters)

counselor

enable people to function as effectively and independently as possible in their homes, communities, and jobs. (masters)

human social worker

using interviews to find out about a patients thoughts, feelings, development, motivation, perceptions, and relationships with others.

psychologist

assist with placing people back into society after hospitalization or rehab.

Social Worker