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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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.

Dialysis Technician

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Dialysis Technician

Duties and responsibilities:

Dialysis Technicians operate machines that remove waste and excess fluid from the blood of patients whose kidneys can no longer carry out those functions. Dialysis technicians are also referred to as renal dialysis technicians, hemodialysis technicians, or nephrology technicians.  They work under the physicians, primarily                                                                in hospitals and clinics.

Dialysis technicians must fully understand the operation of the kidney dialysis machines. They are responsible for their operation, cleaning, and sterilization. They must also fully understand their patients’ needs. Dialysis technicians carefully monitor and record weight and vital signs before, during, and after the blood cleansing procedures. Additionally, they instruct patients about in-home treatments. Because dialysis technicians work with blood, they must exercise strict safety recantations against infectious disease such as hepatitis and AIDS.

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Dentist

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Duties and responsibilities:

 Dentists examine patients’ mouths, treat patients with dental problems, and provide preventive education many education. Many are employed by dental schools, health agencies, hospitals, or professional groups. Some operate their own practices. Dentists:

•Diagnose oral problems.

•Fill cavities.  

•Perform root canals.

•Treat gum disease.

•Practice orthodontia.

•Give anesthesia and perform oral surgery.

Average salary: $45,000-$150,000

Educational requirements:

Students should take the most challenging high school courses (including AP or IB

courses) available in science, math, and

English.

Most dental schools require entrants to have

a bachelor’s Degree with emphasis in the

sciences.

Dental school if four years in length in order

to practice dentistry following graduation,

dentist must pass a national examination  

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Dental Assistant

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Dental assistants help provide dental care. They often work in teams with dental hygienist and laboratory technicians. They may work in health clinics, dental schools nursing homes, and the military, but usually they work for dentists in private practice.

Dental assistant duties include:

•      Helping patients feel comfortable during treatment.

•      Taking and developing dental x-rays.

•      Taking medical histories for patients.

•      Sterilizing and preparing dental instruments and equipment.

•      Instructing patients about dental health care to include brushing and flossing.

•      Performing office management task.

Average Salary: $14,000-$25,000

Educational Requirements:

Dental assistant must have a high school diploma or GED certificate.

They must receive additional training at a community college, vocational school, or dental school to learn their skills. Length of programs varies between six months and one year. To become certified, dental assistant must pass an examination from the Dental Assistant National Board.

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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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Nurse Practitioner and

Clinical Nurse Specialist

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Duties and responsibilities:

Nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialist and advanced practice registered nurses who have received special courses and training. They usually work closely with doctors and can perform many high-level primary care tasks. They often specialize in types of practice such as establish private practices; however, most work in doctor’s offices, hospitals, or neighborhood health centers. Duties often include:

•Talking detailed medical histories and performing complete physical exams.

•Providing diagnoses and recommending treatment plans.

•Treating detailed common medical conditions, illness, and injuries.

• Prescribing limited medications

•Counseling patients and families

Average salary: $39,000-$70,000

Educational requirements:

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

Students must complete all of the educational requirements to become a baccalaureate

prepared registered nurse. They must then complete additional master’s level training and

pass a certified examination.

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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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Chiropractor

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Educational requirements:

Students who want to become chiropractors should take challenging high school science, math and English courses.

Chiropractors must complete a ten semester program in a chiropractic college after completing two years or junior college study.

Most states require that chiropractors pass certification examination before being granted a license to practice.
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