Health Careers 101
This person listens to your heart, checks your lungs, and can write prescriptions.
What is a doctor?
This healthcare worker often checks vital signs and gives medications throughout the day.
What is a registered nurse (RN)?
This is the fastest degree path to become a registered nurse.
What is an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)?
This healthcare worker supports doctors and nurses by taking vital signs and prepping patients.
What is a medical assistant?
Your heart beats about this many times a day.
What is 100,000?
This professional helps patients improve their diet for better health.
What is a dietitian or nutritionist?
This professional usually diagnoses your condition and decides the main treatment plan.
What is a doctor?
EMT stands for this.
What is Emergency Medical Technician?
This expert works mostly behind the scenes with medications and rarely sees patients.
What is a pharmacist?
The loudest sound the human body makes is usually this.
What is a sneeze?
This healthcare worker helps patients regain movement and strength after injuries.
What is a physical therapist?
When you're staying in the hospital, this person monitors your condition the most frequently.
What is a nurse?
This certification is required for most patient care jobs and teaches life-saving skills.
What is CPR or Basic Life Support (BLS)?
These professionals help with emotional health and support patients dealing with stress, anxiety, or trauma.
What is a therapist or counselor?
Over your lifetime, you’ll spend about 6 years doing this activity.
What is eating?
This person keeps track of patient charts, appointments, and billing—often behind a desk.
What is patient service representative?
This type of nurse has advanced training and can examine patients, order tests, and prescribe medicine.
What is a nurse practitioner (NP)?
After high school, it typically takes this many years to become a doctor who can practice on their own.
What is 11–15 years?
This team member makes sure patients get the right care across multiple providers and appointments.
What is a care coordinator or case manager?
This part of your body contains more bacteria than there are people on Earth.
What is your mouth or gut?
This technician draws blood for lab tests or donations.
What is a phlebotomist?
You want to work with patients and start your healthcare career in 2–4 years without going to medical school. This path may be right for you.
What is becoming an RN?
This test is taken after nursing school to become a licensed RN.
What is the NCLEX-RN?
This healthcare worker specializes in helping patients relearn to swallow or speak after illness.
What is a speech-language pathologist?
This tool used to be made from pig bladder, but today it's used to help drain the bladder.
What is a catheter?