Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities: Enables patients to stay in their homes by monitoring and recording patient condition: providing support and personal services; teaching families. Monitors patient condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and output, and exercise. Supports patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services; shopping for food and other household requirements; preparing and serving meals and snacks; running errands.

Salary: $22,050 per year

Education: Educational requirements for home health aides vary depending on their employer. Aides who work for organizations that receive funds from Medicare or Medicaid must complete formal training, while those who work for private companies do not have to meet these obligations. On the job training is often provided by more experienced aids, nursing assistants, licensed practical or registered nursing may provide this training.

Reflection: I would want to be a Home Health Aide because it would be an easy job and it wouldn’t be something that people expect you to do well, it would be something I’ll do good.

Heliotherapy

Duties and Responsibilities: Heliotherapy consists of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light using polychromatic polarized light, lasers, light emitting diodes, fluorescent lamps, dichroic lamps or very bright, full-spectrum light. The light is administered for a prescribed amount of time and, in some cases, at a specific time a day.

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Reflection: I wouldn’t want to be in the heliotherapy business because it seems confusing and I don’t understand this medical career. 

Registered Dietitian

Duties and Responsibilities: Registered Dietitian’s collaborates with providers to identify and correct with patients in need of nutrition counseling. Establishes treatment plans and communicates with patients regarding program compliance. Meets directly with patients to identify educational needs provide individual instruction, utilize informational handouts/booklets, or refer to community resources as needed.

Salary: $77,590

Education: Bachelor’s degree in nutrition or dietetics. Registered Dietitian credential requires 1,200 hours of supervised experience and passing an exam.

Reflection: I would like to be a registered dietitian because it’s a very nice job you help others and you get to help others with their needs if you can, you meet directly with them, and you get to counsel their nutrition.

Diagnostic Radiologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Radiologist use medical imaging technologies, such as X-rays, CT scans and MRIs, to diagnose and make treatment decisions regarding patients’ health problems. Radiologist perform image-guided procedures but do not normally handle the general medical needs of a patient. Instead, a radiologist is a specialist who uses the tools of his or hers trade to make a diagnosis for a patient, then present the results to the patient’s physician.

Salary: $273,980

Education: Radiologist are fully licensed physicians who complete at least eleven years of higher education, which includes an undergraduate degree program, doctor of medicine program and a residency. Additionally, all medical doctors must be licensed to practice. Many choose to become certified by American Board of Medical Specialties.

Reflection: I would not want to be a diagnostic radiologist because I don’t understand the job as much and don’t know what really is going on

Dental Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Dental assistants may perform seating patients in the treatment area, passing requested instruments to the dentist during dental procedures, sterilization and preparation of instruments, tanking impressions of teeth for study models, polishing clinical crowns, and exposing and developing X-rays.

Salary: $34,500

Education: Dental assistants receive their formal education through academic programs at community colleges, vocational schools, technical institutes, universities or dental schools. Graduates of these programs usually receive certificates. Although the majority of academic dental assisting programs take nine to eleven months to complete, some schools offer accelerated training, part time education programs or training via distance education.

Reflection: I would want to be a dentist assistant because it is a short time of community college and they pay a dental assistant good and it would be good working like an assistant.

Dental Lab Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: since each dental patient’s needs are different, the duties of a dental laboratory technician are comprehensive and varied. Although dental technicians seldom work directly with patients, except under the direction of a licensed dentist, they are valuable members of the dental care team. They work directly with dentists by following details written instructions and using impressions (molds) of the patient’s teeth or oral soft tissues.

Salary: $53,090

Education: Dental laboratory technicians may receive their education and training through a two year program at a community college, vocational school, technical college, university or dental school. Graduates of these programs receive either an associate degree or a certificate. There also are a few programs that offer a four year baccalaureate program in dental technology.

Reflection: this job sound interesting but I would not like to be a dental laboratory technician because it sounds like you need to have long years of training and education. Also, because the technics they need I don’t have them.