Health

• Career


  occupation or profession that requires special training
• Health Career


  let the students familiarize with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services
• Health Career Planning


  individual’s plan to make career choice, growing in the chosen career or making career shift.
• Self-assessment


  necessary to understand one’s capabilities and drawbacks.; continuous learning and improvement to build and grow in the chosen career path
• Career Pathways


  clusters of careers or occupations that are grouped because of shared skills
• All pathways include a variety of occupations that require

  different levels of education, skills, and training.
• Why pursue a health career?

  • Good Salary

  • Job Security

  • Do work that interests you

  • Find a health career that fits your educational plans

  • A clear path to advancement

  • Work with people (or not)
• Components in Making a Health Career Plan

  • Self-assessment

  • Career exploration

  • Decision Making

  • Plan of action
• Medical Profession


  a group of individuals qualified to practice medicine
• Health Care Provider


  a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability
• Health Care Practitioner/Provider


  independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice on and provide general and / or specialized care to a specific area of the body.
• Allied Health Professionals


  trained healthcare provider practicing under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner
• Prevention


  keep illness/injury from happening
• Assessment/Evolution


  appraisal of the condition based on the patient’s subjective report
• Identification/Diagnosis


  analysis based on signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings
• Treatment


  management & care of a patient or the combating of

  disease or disorder
• Rehabilitation/Habilitation


  treatment designed to recover from injury, illness, or disease towards a normal condition as possible
• Advocacy


  a method by which patients, their families, attorneys, health professionals and citizens/group can work together to

  develop programs
• Promotion of Health & Well-being

  the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, & thereby improving their health
• Education


  process of sharing & gaining knowledge
• Research


  diligent inquiry / examination of data, reports and

  observations in a search for facts or principles
• Audiologist


  identify and rehabilitate hearing impairments and related
• Clinical Psychologist


  assesses, diagnoses, treats and helps prevent mental disorders
• Dietitian/Nutritionist


  promotes good health through proper diet and diseases
• Guidance Counselor


  assist in career decisions of students
• Health Educator


  specializes in health education and develops health knowledge, life skills and well-being of students
• Massage Therapist


  normalize tissues by performing scientific manipulation.
• Medical Assistant


  performs under the direction of physician
• Medical Technologist


  performs various tasks on body fluids from simple blood tests to more complex tests
• Midwife


  help women maintain healthy pregnancy
• Occupational Therapist


  uses purposeful activity and interventions for patients who are limited by physical injuries or illnesses.
• Pharmacist


  prepares and dispenses medication prescribed
• Paramedic


  gives emergency medical treatment
• Radiologic Technologist/Radiographer


  performs imaging procedures such as x-ray, MRI, CT scan.
• Physical Therapist


  treats physical impairments
• Speech Language Pathologist


  treats patients with speech defects and disorders
• Phlebotomist


  performs phlebotomy or drawing blood.
• Radiation Therapist


  administers radiation therapy and observation of patients during treatment.
• Respiratory Therapist


  promotion of cardiopulmonary health.
• Social Worker


  gives aid to people with social problems