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Education
Healthcare Careers
Give me the money
Why choose healthcare career?
100
Name one of the 250 different healthcare professions available?
What is doctor, dentist, nurse, respiratory therapist, audiologist, pharmacist, pharmacy tech., home health aide, medical assistant, veterinary tech.?
100
This is proof of completing your high school curriculum.
What is a high school diploma or GED?
100
These people prevent, care for, and rehabilitate athletic injuries as directed by a physician.
What is an athletic (physical) trainer?
100
What is the low and high range of salary income for healthcare careers?
What is $24,000 - $300,000?
100
Definition - An Adjective - Providing satisfaction; gratifying. "Working as the school nurse at Sandy Creek is very _____________."
What is rewarding?
200
Economists say 10% of this profession, that diagnoses and treats conditions, could retire in the next 10 years.
What is doctor?
200
This is a national test that is required to enter college.
What is the ACT?
200
This person performs physical examinations, diagnoses illness, recommends treatment, and orders laboratory tests under the supervision of a physician.
What is a physician assistant or nurse practitioner?
200
$200,000 is the average income of a children's doctor, also known as what?
What is a pediatrician?
200
In general, this is a geographic area that is located outside the cities and towns.
What is a rural area?
300
This law enacted in March 2010 is scheduled to add 32 million previously uninsured persons to the rolls by 2019. This law called what?
What is the health care reform law?
300
These classes are all included in what subject area: biology, chemistry, anatomy & physiology?
What is science?
300
This person uses diagnostic imaging, which is taking pictures of a part of the body for the purpose of making a diagnosis.
What is a radiologic technologist or sonographer or cardiovascular technologist?
300
$40,000 - $50,000 is the average salary range of this person who is an expert on diet and nutrition?
What is a dietitian or nutritionist?
300
Definition - Not likely to change or fail; firmly established. Also where horses are kept.
What is stable?
400
The first of these people turned 65 in January 2011 and became eligible for Medicare. A total of 78 million will reach that age by 2030? What are these people called?
What are Baby Boomers?
400
These classes are all included in what subject area: algebra, geometry, statistics.
What is math?
400
These people are those who come when you dial 911. They perform basic life support skills, such as restoring breathing, controlling blood loss, and treating shock victims.
Who are emergency medical technicians or EMTs?
400
$25,000 - $35,000 is the average salary range of an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians or other healthcare professionals, into text format?
What is medical transcriptionist?
400
Definition - An urgent requirement or need. To ask authoritatively or brusquely. "The price of gas goes up because of supply and ________."
What is a demand?
500
This U.S. shortage of which healthcare profession is projected to grow to 260,000 by 2025.
What are registered nurses?
500
This is someone you might talk to if you are interested in choosing a health profession as a career:
Who are • Guidance Counselors · • Teachers · • Parents • Personal role models and mentors • Health professionals (your physician, dentist, school nurse, etc.)
500
A person trained to assist a dentist with clinical and administrative procedures.
Who is a dental assistant?
500
$45,000 - $57,000 is the average salary range of this professional that that teachers students to become nurses ?
What is college nursing instructor?
500
People in this country who have no healthcare services whatsoever.
What are under-served?