National Healthcare Standards/Pathways
Name the Health Career Pathway
Medical Careers
Education
Other chapter information and vocabulary
100

This pathway involves treating a patient to improve their condition over time.

Therapeutic Services

100

Which Healthcare Career Pathway includes

Admitting Clerk?

Health Informatics Services

100

This career is also known as a funeral director.

Mortician

100

It typically takes 1-2 years after obtaining a Bachelor's degree to earn which degree? 

Master's Degree

100

This is a person, often including dentists and optometrists, who owns and runs their own practice.

(business owner)

entrepreneur

200

This pathway involves creating a picture of a patient's health status at a single point in time.

Diagnostic Services

200

Which Healthcare Career pathway includes

Phlebotomist?

Diagnostic Services

200

This career is a doctor who only treats the feet, ankle, and lower legs.

Podiatrist

200

A bachelor's degree typically takes how many years to complete?

4

200

This is the procedures, processes and actions that healthcare providers are legally permitted to perform in keeping with the terms of their professional license

Scope of Practice

300

Pathway that involves using living cells and their molecules to make useful products

Biotechnology research and development

300

Which Healthcare Career Pathway includes

Optometrist?

Therapeutic Services

300

This is a medical doctor who specializes in diseases of the heart and blood vessels.

Cardiologist

300

These education units are important to ensure health professionals stay up to date with current treatments and trends.

Continuing (education units) aka CEUs

300

The process by which a government agency authorizes individuals to work in a a given occupation.

licensure

400

Career pathway that involves creating a therapeutic environment to provide direct or indirect patient care.

Support Services

400

Which Healthcare Career Pathway includes

Radiologist?

Diagnostic Services

400

This is an RN with an advanced education specializing in total care for pregnancies (Prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal).

Nurse Midwife (CNM)

400

Two year degree that can be earned at a junior college

Associates degree

400

Groups or associations that bring together individuals in the same profession

Professional Organization

500

Careers that involve documentation of patient records and health information

Health Informatics

500

Which Healthcare Career Pathway includes

Medical Illustrator?

Health Informatics Services

500

This career studies the harmful effects of chemical, biological, and physical agents on the living system (the human body)

Toxicologist

500

Secondary education programs that prepare a student for immediate employment in many healthcare careers or for additional education after graduation.

Health Science Education (HSE)

500

This ensures that the program of study meets the established quality competency standards and prepares students for employment in the health care career.

Accreditation