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Health Careers
Mr. Gs Select Healthcareers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nursing Assistant or Nurse Aide | Assists the nurses with basic nursing skills (the nurse's right hand person) |
| Occupational Therapist | Helps people of all ages to improve their ability to perform their daily living activities. |
| Physical Therapist | Helps patients with disabilities with large muscle groups like legs, arms, back muscles. |
| Recreational Therapist | Uses recreational and leisure activities as form of treatment |
| Veterinarian | A specialist takes care of animals and pets |
| Dental Hygienist | Works under the supervision of a dentist to remove stains and deposits from the teeth |
| Dietetic Technician | Gathers and evaluates diet histories, assists in planning patient meals, provides nutritional counseling and conducts food service operations and oversees food preparation and service |
| Dietitian | Organizes and supervises the food service operations and meal preparation, makes dietary recommendations, counsel patients and clients about diets and provides educational programs for nutrition, diet modifications, and diet therapy. |
| Audiologist | Tests and measures hearing functions, determines types of hearing disorders, develops and provides patient rehabilitation plans and programs Recommends, dispenses, and tests hearing aids |
| Diagnostic Medical Sonographer | Works with equipment that directs very high frequency sound waves in the body tissues to provide images or pictures of internal organs, diseased masses, and fetuses. |
| Radiographer | Uses radiation equipment (x-ray,ultrasound, PET, MRI) to help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries under the direction of a physician |
| Blood Bank Technology Specialist | Collects blood and tests for its type and identifies proteins, toxins, abnormal conditions and types of blood used in transfusions and establishes and manages donor and frozen blood programs. |
| Cytotechnologist | Mounts samples of the body's cells on slides and studies them under a microscope looking for clues that signal the presence of a disease. |
| Histology Technician/Histotechnologist | Prepare slides by immersing tissues in fluid to prevent decay, replace the specimen's water with wax, and set the tissues in wax |
| Medical Laboratory Technician | Collects, types, and groups blood under the supervision of pathologists. Stains slides and perform routine tests on the body's blood, tissues, and fluids. Keep records and clean and sterilizes equipment. |
| Medical Technologist | Uses microscopes, computers, and chemicals to prepare and study body tissues and fluids providing data so doctors and researchers can determine the presence and extent of disease. |
| Phlebotomist | Works in the laboratory collecting and processing blood to be analyzed. |
| Athletic Trainer | Develops conditioning and nutrition programs to help athletes prevent injuries. Supervises the treatment and rehabilitation prescribed by physicians when injuries occur. |
| Emergency Medical Technician/Paramedic | Responds to health care crises by driving ambulances, giving emergency medical care, and if necessary, transporting patients to hospitals. Responds to heart attacks, unexpected childbirth, car accidents among other emergencies. |
| Medical Assistant | Prepares patients for exams by taking vital signs. Assist with first aid, collects and processes specimens, and performs ordered tests. |
| Perfusionist | Operates the heart-lung machine during heart bypass and open heart surgery. Monitors blood circulation during surgery and keep the surgical team informed of the patient's condition. |
| Surgical Technologist | Checks charts, position patients on the operating table, and provide emotional support. Prepares the skin and helps apply equipment and monitoring devices. |
| Health Information Manager | Manages health information to meet legal, administrative, and medical requirements, while maintaining complete confidentiality. Creates systems to organize and computerize large amounts of records. |
| Health Information Technician (Medical Records Technician) | Reviews, organizes, and evaluates patient's records for completeness and accuracy and uses records to complete statistics. Assigns code numbers to store patients information according symptoms, diseases, and operations |
| Medical Transcriptionist | Listens to a tape-recorded summary about a patient, types what is heard, and then places the information in the clients' permanent record. |
| Medical Coder | Uses classification system (ICD-9) to assign code numbers to each symptom, diagnosis, disease, procedure, and operation that appears on a patient's chart . |
| Medical Illustrator | Creates visual material to represent scientific and technical information which is used to explain medical information to students, physicians, and patients. |
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