Primary Care
These employees keep records of patients' medical histories and symptoms. They help doctors in administering patients' medicines, diagnostics, and treatments. They monitor a patient's status and recovery progress, as well as operate medical equipment.
What is a Registered Nurse?
This employee cleans patients' teeth, and assist dentists when necessary. They clean and polish teeth with hand, power, and ultrasonic tools. In some cases, they remove stains with an air-polishing device, which sprays a combination of air, water, and baking soda. They polish teeth with a powered tool that works like an automatic toothbrush. They use x-ray machines to take pictures to check for tooth or jaw problems.
What is a dental hygienist?
This employee performs or interprets the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear cardiology treadmill studies, mammography, or ultrasound. They communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families. They provide counselling to radiologic patients to explain the processes, risks, benefits, or alternative treatments. They also perform interventional procedures such as image-guided biopsy, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, transhepatic biliary drainage, and nephrostomy catheter placement, and treat malignant internal or external growths by exposure to radiation from radiographs (x-rays), high energy sources, or natural or synthetic radioisotopes.
What is a Radiologist?
These employees focus on patients' overall health and believe that misalignments of the spinal joints interfere with a person's neuromuscular system and can result in lower resistance to disease, as well as other conditions of poor health. Some professionals use procedures such as massage therapy, rehabilitative exercise, and ultrasound in addition to spinal adjustments and manipulation.
What is a Chiropractor?
This employee the first point of contact for anyone calling or arriving at a clinic, hospital, or other healthcare facility. They greet patients, update files, prep exam rooms, and carry out a range of other duties that keep the medical office operating smoothly.
What is a Medical Office Assistant?
Doctors who treat diseases, disorders and injuries of the heart and blood vessels.
What is a cardiologist?
These employees evaluate the health of their clients. Based on their findings, they advise clients on which foods to eat—and which foods to avoid—to improve their health. Some employees provide customized information for specific individuals. For example, they might teach a client with high blood pressure how to use less salt when preparing meals. Others work with groups of people who have similar needs. For example, they might plan a diet with limited fat and sugar to help patients lose weight. They may work with other healthcare professionals to coordinate patient care.
What is a Dietitian?
These employees collect samples and perform tests to analyze body fluids, tissue, and other substances. They perform complex tests and laboratory procedures for other healthcare professionals. For example, they may prepare specimens and perform manual tests that are based on detailed instructions. This type of employee working in small laboratories performs many types of tests; in large laboratories, they generally specialize.
What is a Medical Technologist?
These employees help patients understand problems, including issues at home, at the workplace, or in their community. Through counselling, they work with patients to identify their strengths, or resources they can use to manage problems.
What is a Counselling psychologists?
These employees assist clients suffering from physical or cognitive impairments such as mental illnesses. They should provide companionship to these clients by talking, playing games with and going on walks with clients. They will also be expected to help with a client's day to day tasks and chores, such as hygienic measures (brushing teeth, bathing), changing bed linens, cooking etc.
Personal Care Aide/Personal Support Worker
These employee monitor maternal conditions during labour by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations. Pre-birth, midwives monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation, as well as identify, and treat pregnancy-related problems
What is a midwife?
These employees care for the sick or injured in emergency medical settings. People’s lives often depend on their quick reaction and competent care. They respond to emergency calls, performing medical services and transporting patients to medical facilities. When taking a patient to a hospital, one employee may drive the ambulance while another monitors the patient's vital signs and gives additional care. Some employees work as part of a helicopter's flight crew to transport critically ill or injured patients to a hospital. They also transport patients from one medical facility to another. Some patients may need to be transferred to a hospital that specializes in treating their injury or illness or to a facility that provides long-term care, such as a nursing home
What is a Paramedic?
These employees specialize in creating images of the body’s organs and tissues. The images are known as sonograms (or ultrasounds). Sonograms are often the first imaging test performed when disease is suspected. They may work closely with physicians or surgeons before, during, and after procedures.
What is a Diagnostic medical sonographers?
When diagnosing the patients, these employees communicate with their patients in order to assess their levels of speech or language difficulty. They determine the extent of their communication problems through basic reading and vocalizing tasks to identify treatment options. They treat patients through teaching them how to make sounds and improve their voices, alternative communication methods, improving their ability to read or write, or develop and strengthen muscles used to swallow. They may also counsel patients and families on coping with communication disorders.
What is a speech-language pathologist (SLP)?
This employee typically work for certified home health or hospice agencies that receive government funding and therefore must comply with regulations. They work under the direct supervision of medical professionals, usually registered nurses. These workers keep records of services performed and of clients’ conditions and progress.
Home Healthcare Worker?
These employees take and record patients’ personal information. They must be able to keep that information confidential and discuss it only with other medical personnel who are involved in treating the patient. Electronic health records (EHRs) are changing medical assistants' jobs. More and more physicians are adopting EHRs, moving all their patient information online. They need to learn the EHR software that their office uses. In larger practices or hospitals, medical assistants may specialize in either administrative or clinical work.
What is a Medical Assistant?
These employees evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements. They perform diagnostic tests or measurements such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and colour vision testing. They also develop non-surgical treatment plans for patients with various visual conditions.
What is an Orthoptists?
This employee injects patients with contrast dyes so that the images will show up on the magnetic resonance imaging scanner. The scanners use magnetic fields in combination with the contrast agent to produce images that a physician can use to diagnose medical problems.
What is an MRI technologist?
These employees help to assess and treat mental, behavioural, and emotional disorders, including anxiety, addiction, and depression. They provide individual, group, family, and couples therapy, working with clients to develop strategies to change behaviour or cope with difficult situations. They also work to deliver various social assistance programs or community services, referring clients as needed to other resources or services, such as support groups, supportive housing, or other mental health professionals. They maintain contact with other agencies and health care providers involved with clients to provide information and obtain feedback on clients' overall progress.
What is a mental health social worker?
This employee organizes and manages health information data by ensuring that it maintains its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security in both paper files and electronic systems. They use various classification systems to code and categorize patient information for insurance reimbursement purposes, for databases and registries, and to maintain patients’ medical and treatment histories.
What is a Medical Record and Health Information Technician?
These employees provide nursing services, within a defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures, including nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection, and reinforcing teaching done by registered nurses regarding how family members should care for a relative.
What is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)?
These employees are medical professionals who work with pharmacists to help patients and make sure they get the best care. They often are the people who find, package, and label prescribed medications. Their work is then checked by pharmacists. They can work in your neighborhood pharmacy or places like hospital pharmacies, medical offices, nursing homes, prisons, the military, and even veterinary practices. Some work in the drug industry, in sales and production.
What is a Pharmacy Technician?
This employee studies the nature, cause, and development of diseases. They analyze and interpret results from tests such as microbial or parasite tests, urine analyses, hormonal assays, fine needle aspirations (FNAs), and polymerase chain reactions (PCRs), and communicate pathologic findings to surgeons or other physicians. They also manage laboratories, conduct research, and present scientific findings. They examine microscopic samples to identify diseases or other abnormalities and develop or adopt new tests or instruments to improve diagnosis of diseases. They may also perform autopsies.
What is a Pathologist?
This employee shows patients how to use appropriate adaptive equipment, such as leg braces, wheelchairs, and eating aids. These devices help patients perform a number of daily tasks, allowing them to function more independently. Some employees work with children in educational settings. They evaluate disabled children’s abilities, modify classroom equipment to accommodate children with certain disabilities, and help children participate in school activities. Some employees provide early intervention therapy to infants and toddlers who have, or are at risk of having, developmental delays. Therapists who work with the elderly help their patients lead more independent and active lives.
What is an Occupational Therapist?
The primary responsibility of this employee is to plan, develop, organize, implement and validate Therapeutic Recreation programs designed to meet the social, cultural, recreational, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the residents in a Long-Term care facility.
What is a Recreation Coordinator?