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• COMPONENTS AND STEPS IN MAKING A HEALTH CAREER PLAN


  1. Self-assessment

  2. Career exploration

  3. Decision making

  4. Plan of action
• Therapeutic services or direct patient care


  Considered as "hands-on" patient care
• Therapeutic services or direct patient care


  • Medical specialists attending to patients
  • Nurses and nursing care providers
  • Physical therapists
  • Dentists
• Imaging and diagnostics


  Involves the use of technology in the diagnosis of patients
• Support services


  Responsible for keeping a clean and sanitary hospital or the therapeutic environment
• Support services


  • Hospital maintenance engineers and technicians
  • Environmental facilities manager
• Research and development


  Contributes to the advancement of health care through science and technology
• Personal health care


  These services include companionship and assistance to people who need to remain safe and who need to engage in day-to-day activities
• Personal health care is considered non-medical or private duty, caregivers in demand, especially to the elderly who may need companions
• Maternal health


  • Concerned with the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period
  • Includes other health concerns that help reduce illnesses and death of women due to childbirth
• Psychologists


  Professionals who counsel people who have deep emotional problems
• Psychiatrists


  Medical practitioners who diagnose and treat patients who have mental illnesses
• Counselors


  Assist people with problems related to mental health, and family, personal, educational, and career decisions
• Community health career


  A person who helps local communities receive health care from social service systems and government
• Environmental health


  • A field of science that studies how the environment influences human health and disease
  • Concerned with all aspects of the natural and man-made environment that may affect human health
• Health education


  The profession that involves educating people about health
• Exercise


  • The health areas that are taught are no drugs, physical, social, environmental, emotional, intellectual, spiritual health
• Nurses


  The profession who are concerned with the attainment, maintenance, and recovery of the optimal health and quality of life of patients and communities
• Emergency medical services


  The goals are to preserve life, promote recovery, and prevent further injury
• Emergency medical services are also known as paramedic service rescue in first aid
• Cardiologist


  Specializes in heart disease
• Epidemiologist


  Specializes in disease outbreaks
• Geriatrician


  Specializes in diseases and conditions of the aged
• Gynecologist


  Specializes in the female reproductive system
• Immunologist


  Specializes in the immune system
• Neonatologist


  Specializes in the nervous system
• Neurologist


  Specializes in the nervous system
• Neurosurgeon


  Specializes in surgery in the brain and nervous system
• Obstetrician


  Specializes in pregnancy, labor and childbirth
• Ophthalmologist


  Specializes in eye disease and treatment
• Orthopedist


  Specializes in the skeletal system
• Otolaryngologist


  Specializes in the head, neck, ears, nose, and throat
• Pediatrician


  Specializes in childhood disease and conditions
• Radiologist


  Specializes in x-rays
• Gastroenterologist


  Specializes in the stomach, intestines and digestive system
• Oncologist


  Specializes in cancer and tumors
• Pathologist


  Specializes in the study of tissues and the essential nature of disease
• Plastic surgeon


  Specializes in the use of materials to build tissues
• Rheumatologist


  Specializes in diseases of connective tissues, joints, muscles, and tendons
• Anesthesiologist


  Specializes in the administration of anesthesia