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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