HEALTH Flashcards

(53 cards)

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Designed to let the students familiarize with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services

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Health Career

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An occupation or profession that requires special training.

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Career

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Refers to individual’s plan to make career choice, growing in the chosen career or making career shift.

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Career Planning

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Necessary to understand one’s capabilities and drawbacks. It involves continuous learning and improvement to build and grow in the chosen career path.

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Self-Assessment

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Clusters of careers or occupations that aregrouped because of shared skills. All pathways include a variety of occupations that require different levels of education, skills, and training.

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Career Pathways

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Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you can evaluate and narrow down your opinions through listing the pros and cons, comparing your personal strengths and interest, and deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals.

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Decision Making

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You can explore different careers and work environments through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional resources.

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Career Exploration

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Plan achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your goals, organize your goals into smaller steps, utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt your plan regularly.

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Plan of Action

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Discover your personal strengths through ____________________. (values, interest, personality, testing, sklls, etc.)

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Self-Assessment

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Finding ways to balance individuals’ food & nutrition and their impact on patients’ health.

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Nutrition

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Focuses on communicable and non-communicable diseases.

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Disease Prevention and Control

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Deals with various oral conditions.

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Dental Health

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment.

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Environmental Health Care

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Seeking to reduce community & individual problems related to alcohol & drug abuse

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Drug Prevention & Control

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Specialize in out-of hospital medical care.

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Emergency Medical Services

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children & their families. Providing information on reproductive health, family planning, healthcare of pregnant women & their children.

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Maternal & Child Care

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships & life skills.

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Mental Healthcare

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IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Specialist in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, & improvement of the health of all community members.

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Community Healthcare

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A group of individuals qualified to practice medicine.

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Medical Profession

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A person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability.

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Health Care Provider

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An independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice on and provide general and / or specialized care to a specific area of the body.

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Health Care Practitioner/Provider

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A trained healthcare provider practicing under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner. They include pharmacists, dental hygienists, physical therapists and nurses.

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Allied Health Professionals

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Keep illness/injury from happening

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Appraisal of the condition based on the patient’s subjective report

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Assessment/Evaluation

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Analysis based on signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings.
Identification/Diagnosis
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Management & care of a patient or the combating of disease or disorder
Treatment
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Treatment designed to recover from injury, illness, or disease towards a normal condition as possible.
Rehabilitation/Habilitation
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A method by which patients, their families, attorneys, health professionals, and citizens/ group can work together to develop programs
Advocacy
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The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, & thereby improving their health.
Promotion of Health & Well-being
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The process of sharing & gaining knowledge.
Education
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The diligent inquiry / examination of data, reports and observations in a search for facts or principles.
Research
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Identify and rehabilitate hearing impairments and related.
Audiologist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Assesses, diagnoses, treats and helps prevent mental disorders.
Clinical Psychologist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Promotes good health through proper diet and diseases.
Dietitian/Nutritionist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Normalize tissues by performing scientific manipulation.
Massage Therapist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Assist in career decisions of students .
Guidance Counselor
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Specializes in health education and develops health knowledge, life skills and well-being of students .
Health Educator
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Performs under the direction of phycisian.
Medical Assistant
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Performs various tasks on body fluids from simple blood tests to more complex tests .
Medical Technologist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Help women maintain healthy pregnancy .
Midwife
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Prepares and dispenses medication prescribed .
Pharmacist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Gives emergency medical treatment .
Paramedic
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Uses purposeful activity and interventions for patients who are limited by physical injuries or illnesses.
Occupational Therapist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Performs imaging procedures such as x-ray, MRI, CT scan.
Radiologic Technologist/Radiographer
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Treats physical impairments .
Physical Therapist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Treats patients with speech defects and disorders.
Speech Language Pathologist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Performs phlebotomy or drawing blood.
Phlebotomist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Administers radiation therapy and observation of patients during treatment.
Radiation Therapist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Promotion of cardiopulmonary health.
Respiratory Therapist
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Gives aid to people with social problems.
Social Worker
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Foot orthotic and orthopedic experts other.
Pedorthist
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An activity – based career exploration to broaden your knowledge about careers in the health field.
Health Career Orientation
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**ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION** Body of knowledge concerning physiologic, metabolic and structural responses to short term and long term physical activity other.
Exercise physiologist