Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities:

Home health aides usually work for companies that provide in-home assistance to ill, injured, elderly, or disabled customers. Their duties include taking the blood pressure, temperature, and pulse of patients. They help get in and out of bed, take baths, and dress. They also prepare and serve meals as well as perform housekeeping chores like making beds and cleaning rooms.

Average Salary: $8,000-$18,000

Educational Requirements:

Most employers prefer that nursing assistants and aides have a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some vocational schools and community colleges offer training programs.

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Student Success Statement

“Together Everyone Achieves More”

ANON

Reflection: I believe this statement means that when you work together, you can always achieve more than what you would on your own. 

Healthcare Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Healthcare administrators direct and manage hospitals and other healthcare facilities. They are responsible for long-range planning, financial administration, personnel administration, materials management, purchasing, public affairs, and patient administration.

Small hospitals may have only one administrator, while larger facilities may have many. Some administrators specialize in specific fields like patient administration or purchasing.

Health care administrators also work in HMOs, health agencies, clinics, or for private practices.

Average Salary: $35,000-$100,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take challenging high school courses in business, science, math, and English. Most healthcare administrators hold master’s degrees in healthcare administration or business administration.

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Student Success Statement

“Work as a team to achieve your dream.”

Sarah Real

Reflection: I believe this statement means that if there’s something that you want to achieve, you will always need some ones help to achieve it. Maybe you will be able to do it by yourself, but it never hurts to work with someone. Sometimes you can even achieve more than what you wanted or even achieve it faster.

Student Success Statement

“Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds…you can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds…

ANON

Reflection: I believe this statement means that what you think about is very important. If you think about something negative, then you won’t go on to do anything positive. But if you think about something positive, then you most likely won’t do anything negative. Whatever you think about is what you will become.

Histology Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Histology Specialist include both Histologic Technicians and Histologists. Histologists are also referred to as Histotechnologists. Both histologic technicians and histologists prepare tissue samples that are used by physicians to determine if a patient has a disease, dysfunction, or malignancy.

Histology technicians and histologists prepare samples by using equipment to thinly slice tissue samples. They then amount the thin slices on microscope slides and use chemicals to stain them so important structures are visible.

Histologists perform more complex and advanced procedures than technicians and often also perform management functions.

Histology specialists work in hospital, veterinary, pharmacy, or research laboratories.

Average Salary:

$22,000-$35,000 (Histologic technicians)

$30,000-$50,000 (Histologists)

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging high school courses in science, math, and English.

To become a histologic technician, students must either earn an associate’s degree in the field and complete a one year internship or complete a long-term training program in a histopathology lab. They must also pass a national examination.

To become a histologist, students must either earn a bachelor’s degree that includes a one year clinical internship or complete a long-term training program in a histopathology lab. They must also pass a national examination.

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Student Success Statement

“You will become as great as your dominant aspiration (goal)”

James Allen

Reflection: I believe this statement means that if you go after you dream, you will achieve it. No matter how big it is.

Health Science Librarian

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Sciences Librarian and Library Technicians collect and organize medical information and help practitioners find the information they need for patient care, education, research, and administration.

Librarians select and acquire books, journals, and other library material. They also establish electronic and digital database information systems. They organize this information into collections and develop catalogs for access and provide reference assistance to patrons. They coordinate and control budgets and supervise library technicians.

Library technicians assist librarians in organizing collections, shelve books, manage circulation desks, answer patrons’ questions, and perform administrative duties.

Average Salary:

$20,000-$30,000 (Library Technicians)

$35,000-$55,000 (Librarians)

Educational Requirements:

Students should take challenging high school courses in information management, science, math, and English.

Health sciences library technician training varies by employer. Some provide on the job training, but all prefer that students complete library technician programs at a community college or technical school. Associate’s degrees can be earned in many of these programs.

Health Science Librarians should earn an undergraduate degree in one of the life sciences and must earn a master’s degree in library science from a program that is accredited by the American Library Association. Some library science graduate programs offer specialized courses in health science librarianship.

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Student Success Statement

“A definite worthy goal, combined with a positive mental attitude (PMA), is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.”

Napoleon Hill

Reflection: I believe this statement means that if you set your mind to do something good, then most likely you will achieve it. If you want to do something but you don’t put your mind to it, then you won’t achieve it because you’re not trying. If it’s worthwhile, achieve it. 

Health Information Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Information Specialists obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, 

finance, and insurance data. They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There are a variety of job specialties with in this field including Registered Record Administrators, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialties. Administrators coordinate the various information management responsibilities and supervise record technicians and coding specialists. Record technicians ensure medical records are accurate, coordinate reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for research. Coding specialists assign and post correct diagnosis and procedure codes to records and report to insurance companies.

Average Salary:

$20,000-$25,000 (Coding Specialists)

$23,000-$30,000 (Record Technicians)

$30,000-$40,000 (Record Administrators)

Educational Requirements:

Students should take high school courses in business, information management, science, math, and English.

Coding specialists must have a high school diploma or GED certificate. Training is usually conducted on the job, but classes are offered at technical schools and community colleges. To become certified, specialists must pass an examination.

Accredited record technicians must earn an associate’s degree from an accredited college program or from the American Health Information Management Association Independent Study Program. Additionally, they must pass a credentialing examination.

Record administrators must complete a bachelor’s degree program in the field and pass a certification examination.

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Student Success Statement

“Good thoughts bear good fruit. Bad thoughts bear bad fruit.”

James Allen

Reflection: I believe this statement means that if you do something good, there will be good consequences. But if you do something bad, there will be bad consequences.