Health-Related Jobs
Someone who takes blood and works at a blood bank
What is phlebotomist?
This is known as a 4-year degree
What is a bachelor's degree?
Careers in this pathway include paramedics, athletic trainers, and nursing careers
What are therapeutic services?
This type of hospital typically treats a wide range of conditions and age groups
What is a general hospital?
This is the name for facilities that provide care for the elderly, people with physical or mental disabilities and individuals with chronic or long-term illness
What are Long-Term Care Facilities?
Someone who helps take children out of potentially dangerous situations
What is a social worker?
This is known as a 2-year degree
What is an associate degree?
Careers in this pathway detect, diagnose, and treat illnesses, injuries, and disease
What are diagnostic services?
This type of hospital cares for certain ages or conditions
What is a specialty hospital?
These clinics provide first aid or emergency care to ill or injured patients
What are emergency care clinics?
Someone who is usually the first at a scene and can stabilize the victim by providing advanced life support (ALS) medical treatment
What is a paramedic?
This is the highest degree awarded by a graduate school
What is a doctorate degree?
Careers in this pathway are known as the "info people" They are the ones who track patient data and patient health information
What are health informatics?
These hospitals are often called "teaching hospitals"
What are University or college medical centers?
These facilities deal with mental disease and disorders. They also provide guidance and counseling to those who need it
What are mental health facilities?
Someone who is responsible for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating people for mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders
What is a psychologist?
This degree is an academic degree intermediate between the bachelor's degree and the doctor's degree. Example: MA or MS
What is a master's degree?
Some examples of careers in this pathway are hospital cooks and servers
What are support services?
A veteran’s hospitals is an example of this type of hospital
What is a government hospital?
These facilities provide care for terminally ill people who usually have life expectancy of six months or less. They focus on making the patient comfortable rather than trying to treat them.
What is hospice care?
The person who helps terminally ill patients and their families enjoy quality of life
What is a hospice worker?
After completing medical school, you can earn this degree? Hint: it is abbreviated as "MD"
What is a doctor of medicine (MD) degree?
This pathway focuses on finding new ways to treat diseases and create new medical devices
What is the biotechnology research and development pathway?
This is an example of a service that a general hospital could provide
What are diagnostic, medical, surgical, and emergency care services?
These facilities provide care directed at helping patients with physical or mental disabilities obtain maximum self-care and function
What are rehabilitation facilities?