W-3-4: Health Career Pathways

• Personal Health Care


  • Providing hands-on care to patients and their families in various settings, such as hospitals, physician offices, dentist offices, mental health facilities or rehabilitation clinics
  • Centered on the patient and provides the needs anytime, anywhere, inside and outside the institutional points of careSample Careers
  • Dentist
  • Psychiatrist
  • Nurse
  • Optometrist
  • Deititian
• Maternal and Child Care


  • Focuses mainly on reproductive health, infant care and how best to protect the health of mothers and their children
  • Healthcare workers deal with complex public health issues that direct affect women, children and their families

  
  

  • Sample Careers

  •Obygyne

  •Pediatrician

  •Nutritionists

  •Mid-wife

  •Maternal and

  child health nurses
• Mental Health Careers


  • Require excellent listening, verbal communication, interpersonal, critical thinking, and decision-making skills
  • Help facilitate interactions with individuals who are in distress
  • Have excellent job outlooks with employment expected to grow at least faster than the average for all occupations between 2016 and 2026
• Clinical and Counseling Psychologists


  • Diagnose and then treat people who have behavioral, emotional, and mental disorders
  • Help their clients and patients deal with crises, and illnesses
  • Earn a Ph. D. or Psy. D. degree in psychology
  • Takes between five to seven years to complete either of these doctorates
• Marriage and Family Therapisists


  • Help couples, families, and individuals overcome or learn how to manage mental illnesses and disorders within the context of their relationships
  • Require a master's degree in marriage and family therapy
• Clinical and Social Workers


  • Diagnose patient's mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders and then provide treatment through individual and group therapy
  • To become a clinical social worker, you must get a Master's Degree in Social work (MSW)
• Psychiatric Registered Nurse


  • Registered nurses (RNs) who specialize in psychiatric and mental health work
  • Care for patients who have mental, behavioral, and emotional disorders
  • Nursing education programs, including those that culminate in a bachelor's of science degree, include psychiatric-mental health education
• Psychiatric Registered Practioner


  • Nurse practitioners (NPs) who can also specialize in psychiatry and mental health
  • Provide assessments and therapeutic interventions to patients with psychiatric disorders and addictions in outpatient and inpatient settings
  • After becoming licensed as an RN, you must earn an master's degree or doctorate in nursing practice and get a state-issued NP license
• Psychiatrists

  • Physicians who specialize in treating psychiatric disorders
  • Complete four years of medical school after earning a bachelor's degree
  • Then do a four-year residency in psychiatry
  • Require a medical license and certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry
• Mental Health Counselors


  • Help people overcome emotional and mental disorders and addictions
  • Require a master's degree in mental health counseling or a related field of study
• Occupational Health and Safety


  • Protect employees from infectious diseases by monitoring a workplace for risk, educating staff about safety procedures and recommending vaccinations
  • Protect workers from sickness, disease, and injury arising from possible hazards of their employment and workplace
• Community Health Care


  • Specialists focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members
  • Focuses on an overall geographic area rather than on shared characteristics such as age or diagnosis
  • The defined area could be as small as a neighborhood, or it could encompass a city or an entire region
• Drug Prevention and Control


  • Seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs and policy advocacy

  Sample Careers

  • Drug Enforcement
  • Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
  • Community Health Worker
• Nutrition and Diatetics

  • Find ways to balance individuals' food and nutrition and their impact on patients' health
  • Include meal planning, food preparation and economics
• Health care is forecasted to remain a large source of job growth in the labor market

  The long-term trend toward more employment in health care is expected to continue, with many occupations in health care expected to grow