Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical assistants help physicians and nurses deliver patient care. Medical assistants make the appointments, take blood pressures, respirations, take patients temperatures, and preform pre-examining procedures. Medical assistants work in hospitals, clinics, or in private physician offices.

Salary: $17,000-$18,000

Education:

Students should take biology, physical science, office management, communications, and human relations in high school. Medical assistant programs do accept GED certificates. The programs are provided by community colleges and for profit technical training schools. The training programs make take six months and two years to be complete.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

Looking at what the medical assistant does I think I would like to be one because I get to work in a hospital and help out the nurses and physicians with patient care.

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Licensed practical nurses work with the direction of registered nurses or physicians. They care for the injured handicapped or the sick patients. They take temperatures, blood pressures, and the pulses. They even give the patients injections, help them change, and give the patients baths. They work in hospitals, nursing homes, and extended care facilities. Some nurses work in in private homes for patients.

Salary: $16,000-$23,000

Education:

It is encouraged that the nurses either have a GED or a high school diploma. Unlike registered nurses LPNs don’t have the extensive profession education. Training programs are offered at hospitals, vocational schools, junior colleges, and private schools.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would like to be one because it seems like something I would like to do every day and I get to help patients.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.”

Paul Bear Bryant

He is trying to say that it doesn’t matter if you win what matters is how you prepared yourself to win. You can win a ton of games but the only difference you have from your opposing team is that you worked harder during your practices to achieve that win. Paul's players worked harder and didn't do bad things that made them loose, he won a lot of games because he didn't let his players fool around.

Paul Bear Bryant

Paul Bear Bryant

Paul was an American football player and football coach. Paul was the head coach for the head coach for the university of Alabama football team. Throughout his 25-year tenure as the head coach he had six national championships and thirteen conference championships. He won 323 football games. The University of Alabama has the Paul W. Bryant Museum, the Paul W. Bryant Hall, Paul W. Bryant Drive, and Bryant-Denny Stadium is named in his honor. Before he was the head coach at Alabama he was coaching other universities’ like Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas A&M.

Industrial Hygienist

Industrial Hygienist

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Industrial hygienist checks out health hazards, conduct health risk assessments, manage industrial or business health problems, and they provide consultation. Industrial hygienist can be teachers, administrators, researchers, or consultants. Some work in government teams others work in private practices. Industrial hygienist often:

·         Collect samples and preform laboratory analyses.

·         Check out worker exposure to radiation, vibrations, and noise.

·         Calibrate equipment.

·         Investigate possible health hazards.

·         Conduct epidemiological research.

·         Instruct employees on injury prevention techniques.

Salary:

$40,000-$60,000

Education:

Students need to take challenging college preparatory courses, even in mathematics and science, during high school. To be an industrial hygienist it requires at least a Bachelor’s Degree in occupational health and safety, environmental health engineering, or physical science. Some jobs require for them to get a Master’s degree in the related fields.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would not like to be an industrial hygienist because I don’t think I would do a good job at it.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Righteous community unity starts with ONE upright soul, whether it is a community of family member, students, neighbors, teammates, or business associates. Unity conquers worthy pursuits more quickly and with less effort than individual effort alone.”

Mr. Haymore

This statement means that in any community all you need is one person to start unity. It doesn’t matter who it is because “unity conquers worthy pursuits”. A good community means that you care and look out for each other but that one person makes the community join together.

Home Health Aide

Home Health Aide
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Duties and Responsibilities: Home health aides work for companies that have an in-home assistance to ill, injured, elderly, or disabled patients.  The duties are to take the blood pressure, take temperatures, and the pulse of patients.  They help the patients get in and out of their bed, bath them, dress them, serve meals, and do housekeeping chores like making the beds and cleaning the rooms.       Salary:  $8,000 - $18,000       Educational: Most employees say that the nursing assistants and aides need to have a have a high school diploma or GED certificate.  Some community colleges offer training programs. Reflection: Do you think you would like to be a home health aide? Why? Why not? I don’t think I would like to be a home health aide because I would not enjoy working with elderlies because I can hurt them while doing my duties.