Optician

Duties and Responsibilities: Opticians fit and dispense eyeglasses for patients based upon prescriptions written by ophthalmologists or optometrists. Optician’s help the customer’s select eyeglass frames and then measure their faces so that correct size frames can be ordered.  They also measure the distance between the corneas of the eyes so that the lenses may be correctly fitted in the frames. 

Salary: $19,000 - $40,000

Education: Students should take high school courses in physics, algebra, mechanical drawing, and geometry.  A high school diploma or GED certificate is needed to begin training as an optician

Reflection: I don’t think I would like this job I’m just not suitable for it, and I have no interest in it.

Clinical technologist

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Clinical technologists perform more complex laboratory test and procedures than technicians. They also supervise technicians, conform there test, and manage laboratory quality control programs.

Most clinical laboratory specialist work in hospital, but they are also employed by private practices, medical groups, research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and universities.

Average salary: $20,000-$28,000(Clinical laboratory technicians)

$25,000-$40,000

Educational requirements:

Students should take most challenging high school courses in, science, math, and English.

An associate’s degree in the field or completion of a specialist in-house training programs is required to become a clinical laboratory technician.

A bachelor’s degree in the field is normally required to become a clinical technologist; however some employers accept an associate’s degree and extensive clinical experience as a substitute. Many technologists pursue additional graduate educational or specialist training to advance their careers in clinical chemistry, blood banking, and microbiology.  

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Clinical Laboratory Specialist

Duties and responsibilities:

Clinical Laboratory Specialist include both Clinical

Laboratory Technicians and Clinical Technologist.

These professions are also refereed to as Medical

Laboratory Technicians or Medical Technologist.

Both technicians and technologist perform laboratory

work to identify work to identify, diagnose and treat

disease.                                          

Clinical laboratory technicians use microscopes,

laboratory equipment, chemicals and computers

to perform laboratory procedures. They also

collect blood specimens and prepare culture

media. They conduct test and prepare reports for

clinical technologists and physicians.

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Student Success Statement

“Have the courage to say no. Have the

courage to face the truth. Do the right

thing because it is the right. These are the

magic keys to living your life with

integrity.”

W. Clement Stone

Reflection:

What I think this means is that you should always choose the right it’s the best thing you should do in if you want to be proud of what you’re doing in life. Always choose the right and it’ll all be good.