Education
Additional hours of training required to renew licenses or maintain certification and registration
What are CEUs?
Registered Nurse
RN
The additional hours of training required to renew licenses or maintain certification or registration
What are CEU's?
Works under the supervision of the RN or LPN, to assist patients with ADL's, such as bathing, feeding, and ambulation.
What is a PCT?
The amount of time that a bachelor's degree takes to complete.
What is 4-6 years?
Any education obtained after high school
What is postsecondary education?
Patient Care Technician
PCT
When a program of study has met standards for employment in a health care career.
What is accreditation?
Dispenses medications per written orders from physicians.
What is a Pharmacist?
A bachelor's degree can be earned at this place
What is a university?
A degree awarded by a college or university after completion of one or more years of work beyond a bachelor's degree.
What is a Master's Degree?
Pharmacist
What is PharmD?
The process whereby a government agency authorizes individuals to work in a given profession
What is licensure?
Individuals who work under the supervision of a pharmacist to help prepare medication and other duties as directed by the pharmacist
What is pharmacy technician?
Individuals who provide treatment to improve mobility and prevent or limit disability in patients.
What are physical therapists?
A degree that can be earned at a vocational/technical school or community college.
What is an Associate's Degree?
Optometrist
What is OD?
Careers that are directed toward changing the health status of a patient over time.
What are therapeutic services?
They identify and tract diseases as they occur in a group of people
What are Epidemiologists?
An individual who operates electrocardiograph machines, which record electrical impulses that originate in the heart
What is an electrocardiograph technician?
The programs that prepare students for immediate employment in many health care careers after high school graduation.
What is Secondary Health Science Education?
Doctor of Podiatric Medicine
What is DPM?
Tests or procedures that aid in the detection and diagnosis of diseases and injuries
What is Diagnostic services?
Also known as a venipuncture technician
What is a phlebotomist?
Where a bachelor's degree can be earned
What is a University?