HEALTH 10 4TH QUARTER

• Audiologist – identifies and rehabilitates hearing impairments and related disorders.
• Clinical psychologist - assesses, diagnoses, treats and helps prevent mental disorders
• Dietitian - promotes good health through proper diet and treatment of diseases
• Medical Assistant - performs under the direction of a physician.
• Medical Technologies- performs a variety of tasks on body fluids, from simple blood test
• Occupational therapist - uses purposeful activity and interventions to maximize the independence and health of any client.
• Paramedic - gives emergency medical treatment or assists medical professionals in emergency situations
• Radiologic Technologist - healthcare professionals who perform imaging procedures, such as x-ray examinations
• Physical Therapist - examines, evaluates, and treats physical impairments through use of special exercise.
• Radiation therapist - administers radiation therapy services to patients and observes patients during treatment
• Pedorthist - are foot orthotic and orthopedic footwear experts trained in the assessment of lower limb anatomy and muscle and joint function.
• A career is an occupation or profession that requires special training
• Self Assessment - Discover your personal strengths through (values, interests, personality, testing, skills, etc.)
• Career Exploration - You can explore different careers and work environments through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, personal resources.
• Decision Making - Before you decide on your taking a career that works for you, you can evaluate and narrow down your options through listing the pros and cons, comparing your personal strengths and interests, and deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals.
• Plan of Action - Plan achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your goals , organize your goals into smaller steps, identify actions for each step, utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt your plan regularly.
• Health career Planning - refers to an individual’s plan to make a career choice, growing in the chosen career or making a career shift. Career planning involves the very important step of self-assessment.
• Career pathways are clusters occupations that are grouped because of shared skills. All pathways include a variety of occupations that require different levels of education, skills, and training. Selecting a career pathway provides you with an area of focus, along with flexibility and a variety of ideas to pursue for personal development
• Disease Prevention and Control -People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Their work includes immunization, screening of newborns, promotion of breastfeeding, infant diseases prevention, adolescent healthcare, and life skills. Sample Careers: * Community Health Work Education and Research
• Personal Healthcare - Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level. These include monitoring patients; administering and assisting in personal care and hygiene; performing housekeeping duties; and advising clients on related healthcare issues like infant care, hygiene, and nutrition.
• Maternal and Child Care -These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children, and their families. These include providing information on reproductive health, family planning, healthcare of pregnant women and their children, and improvement of health delivery system through advocacy, education, and research.
• Mental HealthCare -These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills. These include cognitive and psychosocial development, promotion of healthy self-esteem through feelings and anger management and identifying warning signs or red flags of learning disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, stress, and bullying.
• Community Healthcare -Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members.
• Environmental Healthcare Management -These health workers try to establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment. These include monitoring the quality of environment and impact of human activities on ecosystems and developing strategies for restoring ecosystems
• Drug Prevention and Control -People whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs and policy advocacy.
• Nutrition - Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and their impact on patients’ health. These include meal planning, food preparation and economics
• Health Education - Those who work in this field are tasked with promotion of healthcare and training of health workers on managing change in healthcare. Their work involves assessing individual and community needs, planning, implementing, and evaluating health programs, promoting the understanding of various health-related behaviors plus coordinating health education services
• Dental Health -Dental health workers deal with various oral conditions which include chronic mouth and facial pain, oral sores, periodontal (gum) disease, tooth decay and tooth loss, other diseases and disorders that affect the oral cavity, and risk factors for oral diseases which include unhealthy diet, tobacco use, harmful alcohol use, and poor oral hygiene.
• Occupational Safety -Careers in this path are related to the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. These include protecting workers from sickness, disease, and injury arising from possible hazards of their employment and workplace.
• Emergency Medical Services - People assigned in this work specialize in out-of-hospital medical care. Their skills include first-aid procedures, emergency medical treatment and transport of patients, rapid emergency medical response and immediate medical attention.
• The medical profession is a group of individuals qualified to practice medicine. Allied health professions, on the other hand, are lines of work that still deal with healthcare, but are distinct from medicine
• Chiropractor - diagnosis and treats neuromuscular disorders with emphasis on treatment through manual adjustment and/or manipulation of the spine.
• Massage therapist - performs the scientific manipulation of the soft tissues of the body for the purpose of normalizing those tissue
• Emergency Medical Technician - also known as ambulance technician.
• Guidance Counselor - assists students with personal, family, education, and career decisions and concerns; also helps them develop job-finding skills and other life skills needed to prevent and deal with problems
• Health Educator - specializes in health education and promotes the development of health knowledge, life skills, and positive attitudes toward the health and well-being of students.
• Midwife - professionals with the expertise and skills in helping women maintain healthy pregnancies, assist in, or perform childbirth delivery, and help in women’s recovery process through the postpartum period.
• Nurse - trained to provide care for people who are sick or injured; monitors patients’ health and records symptoms, assists physicians during examinations and treatment, and administers medications.
• Cardiovascular technologist - uses imaging technology to help physicians diagnose patients with cardiac (heart) and peripheral vascular (blood vessel) ailments
• Clinical officer - performs general medical duties such as the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury, recommendation and interpretation of medical tests, performance of routine medical and surgical procedures, and referral of patients to other practitioners.