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.