Health Sciences Librarian

Duties and Responsibilities: Health Sciences Librarians and also Library Technicians collect and they organize medical information and they help the practitioners find the information that they need for the patient care, education, research, and also administration. The librarians select and acquire books, journals, and other library material.  They also establish in electronic and digital database information systems.

Salary: $35,000 - $55,000

Education: Students should take some challenging high school courses in information management, science, math, and English. Health sciences library technician train in varies by the employer.

Reflection: Do you think you would like this job? Why or why not? I think I would like this job because I like to be organized and I wouldn’t mind help finding that they need knowing it would be right at the reach of things.

Home Health Aid

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Duties and Responsibilities: They help patients get in and out of bed, take baths, and dress.  They also prepare and serve meals as well as perform housekeeping chores like making beds and cleaning rooms.

Average Salary:  $8,000 - $18,000

Educational Requirements:

Most employers prefer that nursing assistants and aides have a high school diploma or GED certificate.  Some vocational schools and community colleges offer training programs.

Education: Most employers would like that the nursing assistants

and the aides have a high school diploma or also GED certificate.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be a Health Aid Educator? Why? Why not?

I do think I would like this job because I would like to helot e elderly to help them clean up and feed them the only thing that would get in my way from working here is the help cleaning them that in a way would bother me, but I guess if ii worked in that job I wouldn’t mind as much.

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Heath Science Librarian

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Sciences Librarians collect and organize medical information and help practitioners find the information they need for patient care, education, research, and administration. They organize this information into collections and develop catalogs for access and provide reference assistance to patrons. Collaborate with the scholarly trust expert panel to guide repository development and standards, include:

Convene the scholarly trust expert panel at regular intervals

·       Vet publication criteria, copyright issues, review processes and ongoing management practices.

·       Development of scholarly trust publication criteria.

·       Regularly review digital submissions for possible inclusion

Average Salary: $20,000 - $30,000  

Educational Requirements:

Students should take challenging high school courses in information management, science, math, and English. Health sciences library technician training varies by employer.  Health Science Librarians should earn an undergraduate degree in one of the life sciences and must earn a master's degree.

Question: Would you like to be a Health Quest Librarian? Why? Why not?

Answer: No I would not like to be a health quest librarian because ut doesn’t seem to interest me as much as I thought it would.

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Health Educator

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Duties and Responsibilities:

 Health educators provide information on health and health related issues. They can assess health training needs and plan health education programs. They may specialize according to specific health concerns, illnesses, or work or training settings. Health educators may work as independent consults or in health departments, community organizations, businesses, hospitals, schools or government agencies. Health educators often:

·       Perform health training needs assessments.

·       Design and develop health education programs.

·       Publish health education materials, information papers, and grant proposals.

·       Develop health education curriculum.

·       Teach health in public and provide schools

Average Salary: $20,000-$30,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take college preparatory courses during high school

Health educators have, as minimum, a bachelor’s degree in health education. Many have master’s degree. To be certified or licensed to teach health in public schools requires master’s degrees and successful completion of a written exam in many states.

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Would I like to be a Health Educator?

I would like to be a health educator because it seems nice to help out others and schools about what they do and show them what we do and how we do it.

Rehabilitation or Mental

Health Counselors

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Rehabilitation or mental health counselors work with the mentally, emotionally, and physically disabled. It is their job to help patients develop more faith in themselves. They work with patients to help them become self-sufficient and productive. Counselors often work closely with their patients’ doctors and family. Counselors may work I a private practice, for schools, industry, or in hospitals or residential health care settings. Counselors often:

·       Work with patients who abuse alcohol or are addicted to drugs

·       Interview and observe patients to determine problem areas

·       Conduct personality, aptitude, achievement, and psychological tests

·       Help patients find and keep jobs

Average Salary: $25,000 - $45,000

Educational Requirements:

Students interested in becoming counselors should take a challenging high school curriculum.

A bachelor’s degree in education, physiology, or sociology is the minimum requirement for low counseling jobs, but a master’s degree is required for most. To become licensed by a state, counselors must pass written and oral examinations and work for about two years in a supervised clinical setting.

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Health Information Specialist

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Educational Requirements:

Students should take high school courses in business information management, science, math and English.

Coding specialist must have a high school diploma or GED certificate. Training is usually conducted on the job, but classes are offered at technical schools and community colleges. To become certified, specialist must pass an examination.

Accredited record technicians must earn an associated degree from an accredited collage program or from the American Health Information Management Association Independent Study Program. Additionally they must pass a credentialing examination.

Record administrators must complete a bachelors degree program in the field and pass a certification examination.

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Health Information Specialist

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Duties and Responsibilities :

Health information Specialist obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, finance, and insurance data. They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There are a variety of job specialist within this field Registered Record

Administrators. Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialist . Administrators coordinated the various information management responsibilities and supervised record technicians and coding specialist. Record technicians ensure medical records are accurate, coordinated, reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for search. Coding specialist assign and post correct diagnosis and procedure codes to records and report codes to insurance companies,

Health information specialist work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, physician offices, and many other medical settings.

Average Salary:

$20,000-$25,000 (Coding Specialist)

$23,000-$30,000(Record Technicians)

$30,000-$40,000(Record Administrator)
             
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