Educational Requirements
The minimum educational requirement for becoming a licensed practical nurse (LPN).
What is a certification?
Assists athletes with preventing managing and recovering from injuries
What is an Athletic Trainer?
This role assists patients with daily activities and provides basic care under the supervision of a nurse.
What is a Certified Nursing Assistant?
Before entering medical school, aspiring doctors usually need to complete this level of higher education.
What is a Bachelors Degree?
Involved in capturing a picture of the health status of a patient at a single point in time.
Diagnostic Services Health Care Career
This type of education is required for pharmacists before they can practice.
What is doctorate/doctoral degree?
Trained in one field or occupation & receive additional education to work in a second and even third occupation
What are multiskilled/multicompetent health care providers?
This role involves managing the business and administrative functions of a health care facility.
What is Health Care Administrator?
To practice as a certified medical laboratory technician, one must often obtain this specific credential.
What is a Certification?
Involve serving the needs of patients through direct or indirect patient care.
What are Support Services?
Ensuring that the program of study meets the established quality competency standards and prepares students for employment
What is Accreditation?
Works with patients with kidney failure to provide their treatment
What are Dialysis Technicians?
This profession focuses on creating and implementing rehabilitation plans for patients recovering from injuries or surgeries.
What is a Physical Therapist?
Units healthcare professionals need to complete to remain licensed.
What are Continuing Education Units?
Dentists and social workers fall under this career cluster pathway.
What are Therapeutic Services Careers?
Process by which a government agency authorizes individuals to work in a given occupation
What is Licensure?
Treatment and prevention of disease of the gums, bone, and structures supporting the teeth - requiring a 6-8 year education
What is Periodontics?
This profession involves interpreting and analyzing medical images to aid in diagnosis.
What is a Radiologist Technician?
This field involves using biological systems and organisms to develop products and technologies for medical and agricultural applications.
What is Biotechnology?
National Health Care Standards Career Cluster Pathways.
What are therapeutic, diagnostic, support, biotechnological research, and health informatics services?
Involves being listed or recorded by a regulatory body (like the state board) and may be required for certain professions but doesn’t necessarily mean advanced qualifications
What are Registrations?
Secondary program that prepares graduates for immediate employment or continuing education.
What are HSE programs? What are Secondary Health Science Education Programs?
This health care cluster pathway manages and analyzes health data to improve patient care and health care operations through electronic health records (EHRs).
What are Health Informatics Services?
The range of actions, processes, and procedures that a licensed health professional is permitted to perform, based on their education, training, and experience.
What is Scope of Practice?
This career level requires 3-4 years of college plus work experience, usually a bachelor’s degree and, sometimes a master’s degree
What are Technologists or Therapists?