Therapeutic Careers
Career Clusters
Careers
Education/Requirements
Potpourri
100

This career would preform prehospital care for victims of accidents, injuries, or sudden illness

 What is Paramedic, EMT, or First Responder

100

Careers in this cluster are directed towards changing the health status of a patient over time.

What is Therapeutic Services Careers?

100

This career collects blood and prepares for testing

What is Phlebotomist?

100

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?

100

Individual who organizes, manages, & assumes the risks of a business

Who is an Entrepreneur?

200

A medical specialist who treats diseases and disorders of children  

What is a Pediatrician?

200

Workers involved in creating a picture of the client's health status at a single point of time

What is Diagnostic Service Careers?

200

The RN that is educated to provide total care for normal pregnancies

What is a Nurse Midwife?

200

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?

200

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)?

300

Health career that is involved in the preventative, repair/replacement of diseased or damaged teeth/gums

What are Dental Careers?

300

This career cluster has a focus on documentation of patient records and analyzing health information

What is Health Informatics?

300

This career prevents and treats athletic injuries

What is an Athletic Trainer?

300

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?

300

This is the term for a person that can preform a variety of health care skills.  

Multicompetent or multiskilled worker

400

Health careers are involved in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases and disorders

What are Medical Careers?

400

This group of careers focuses on using living cells to create useful products

What is Biotechnology Careers?

400

A dental specialty that specializes in the alignment and straightening of the teeth

What is an Orthodontist?

400

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?

400

A health career that dispenses medications and provides information on drugs/medications

What is a Pharmacist?

500

Health careers that prepares the body for burial or cremation

What would be Mortuary Careers?

500

Career cluster involved with creating a therapeutic environment to provide direct or indirect patient care

What is Support Services?

500

The career that examines eyes for vision problems and defects

What is an Optometrist?

500

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?

500

The career that prepares the body for interment by washing the body and replacing the blood with embalming fluid

What is an Embalmer?