Medical Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical assistants help physicians and nurses deliver patient care.  They schedule appointments; take blood pressures, respirations, temperatures; and perform other routine patient pre-examining procedures.  Sometimes they help with office and clerical tasks.  Medical assistants work in hospitals, clinics, and private physician offices.

Average Salary:  $17,000 - $18,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should complete high school with courses in biology, physical science, office management, communications, and human relations, although medical assistant training programs may accept GED certificates.  Medical assistant training programs are provided by community colleges and for-profit technical training schools.  They may take between six months and two years to complete.

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Duties and Responsibilities:

                Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) work with and under the direction of registered nurses and physicians.  They care for injured, handicapped, and sick patients.  Their duties include taking temperatures, blood pressures, and pulses.  They also give injections, change dressings, and help give patients baths.  In general, they care for patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and extended care facilities.  Some practical nurses work in private homes.

Salary: $35,000 - $45,000

Educational Requirements:

 Although a high school diploma or GED certificate is not always required, it is encouraged.  LPNs do not have the extensive professional education that is required for a registered nurse.  State approved training programs are offered by the hospitals, vocational schools, junior colleges and private schools. 

Student Success Statement

Together Everyone Achieves More

Anon

Teamwork will help be become successful in life.

• Teamwork 
• Friendship
• Climbing 
• 4 people
• holding hands
• hill
• sky
• a goal
• motivation
• people hiking

Healthcare Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Healthcare administrators direct and manage hospitals and other healthcare facilities.  They are responsible for long-range planning, financial administration, personnel administration, materials management, purchasing, public affairs and patient administration. Small hospitals may have only one administrator, while larger facilities may have many.  Some administrators specialize in specific fields like patient administration or purchasing. Health care administrators also work in HMOs, health agencies, clinics, or for private practices.

Salary:                                                              

 $35,000 - $100,000 

Education:

Students should take challenging high school courses in business, science, math, and English. Most healthcare administrators hold master's degrees in healthcare administration or business administration. 

Reflection:

Yes I would like to be a Healthcare Administrator, because it pays good.

Student Success Statement

"Your mind is a garden.

Your thoughts are the seeds...

You can grow Flowers.

Or you can grow weeds..."

ANON

Only you can control your life,you plan what you want to be in life, no one can get in your way if you don't let them. And you will be success full if you plant great thoughts onto your brain.

Whats on my mind?

Whats always on my mind is the future, the thought of me making it through high school into a college or dropping out, and having a regular job, regretting my life like the rest of my family terrifies me.

Histology Specialists

Duties and Responsibilities:

Histology Specialists include both Histologic Technicians and Histologists.  Histologists are also referred to as Histotechnologists.  Both histologic technicians and histologists prepare tissue samples that are used by physicians to determine if a patient has a disease, dysfunction, or malignancy. Histology to stain them so important structures are visible. technicians and histologists prepare samples by using equipment to thinly slice tissue samples.  They then mount the thin slices on microscope slides and use chemicals Average Salary:    $22,000 - $35,000 (Histologic technicians)  $30,000 - $50,000 (Histologists) Educational Requirements: Students should take the most challenging high school courses in science, math, and English. To become a histologic technician, students must either earn an associate's degree in the field and complete a one year internship or complete a long-term training program in a histopathology lab.  They must also pass a national examination. To become a histologist, students must either earn a bachelor's degree that includes a one year clinical internship or complete a long-term training program in a histopathology lab.  They must also pass a national examination.

Student Success Statement

"A definite worthy goal, combine with a positive mental attitude (PMA), is the starting of all worthwhile achievements."

Napoleon Hill

What this quote is saying that you always need to have a positive attitude no matter what happens never give up.

Health Information Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Information Specialists obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, finance, and insurance data.  They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

Salary:

$20,000 - $25,000  (Coding Specialists) 
$23,000 - $30,000 (Record Technicians)  
$30,000 - $40,000 (Record Administrators)

Education:

Students should take high school courses in business, information management, science, math, and English. Coding specialists must have a high school diploma or GED certificate.  Training is usually conducted on the job, but classes are offered at technical schools and community colleges.  To become certified, specialists must pass an examination.

Answer:

No, because it doesn’t seem like the right choice form me.