Therapeutic Careers
This career would preform prehospital care for victims of accidents, injuries, or sudden illness
What is Paramedic, EMT, or First Responder
Careers in this cluster are directed towards changing the health status of a patient over time.
What is Therapeutic Services Careers?
This career collects blood and prepares for testing
What is Phlebotomist?
A degree awarded by a college or university after a prescribed course of study that usually takes four years to obtain
What is Bachelor's Degree?
Individual who organizes, manages, & assumes the risks of a business
Who is an Entrepreneur?
A medical specialist who treats diseases and disorders of children
What is a Pediatrician?
Workers involved in creating a picture of the client's health status at a single point of time
What is Diagnostic Service Careers?
The RN that is educated to provide total care for normal pregnancies
What is a Nurse Midwife?
The degree that is awarded by a career/technical school or community college after completion of a prescribed two year course of study
What is an Associate's Degree?
In health care, what is the name for the process of obtaining information needed to renew a license or maintain a certification
What are Continuing Education Units (CEUs)?
Health career that is involved in the preventative, repair/replacement of diseased or damaged teeth/gums
What are Dental Careers?
This career cluster has a focus on documentation of patient records and analyzing health information
What is Health Informatics?
This career prevents and treats athletic injuries
What is an Athletic Trainer?
The degree that is awarded by a college or university after the completion of one or more years of a prescribed course of study beyond a bachelor's degree
What is a Master's Degree?
This is the term for a person that can preform a variety of health care skills.
Multicompetent or multiskilled worker
Health careers are involved in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and disorders
What are Medical Careers?
This group of careers focuses on using living cells to create useful products
What is Biotechnology Careers?
A dental specialty that specializes in the alignment and straightening of the teeth
What is an Orthodontist?
A level of education for health occupations that usually requires at least three to four years of college plus work experience
What is a technologist/therapist?
A health career that dispenses medications and provides information on drugs/medications
What is a Pharmacist?
Health careers that prepares the body for burial or cremation
What would be Mortuary Careers?
Career cluster involved with creating a therapeutic environment to provide direct or indirect patient care
What is Support Services?
The career that examines eyes for vision problems and defects
What is an Optometrist?
A process by which the government agency authorizes individuals to work in a given occupation after the person has completed an approved education program and passed a state board test
What is a licensure?
The career that prepares the body for interment by washing the body and replacing the blood with embalming fluid
What is an Embalmer?