Student Success Statement

                                          "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

                                                                                                      -Bo Jackson

Reflection: Always set the goals you actually want to achieve. Do everything you can to achieve your goal. Be careful not to aim for the impossible because unfortunately there is also the saying, "the higher you fly, the further you fall". The flight of Icarus can be an example.

             

                                                           

Student Success Statement

                         "You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

                                                                                                                     -Michael Phelps

Reflection: Limits are barriers that the human mind puts on you. Barriers can represent any problem, from sports to personal. They give you the sense of not progressing, of not being able to continue. What Phelps is trying to teach you is that those "limits" are simply illusions. The more effort put into your "dream", the more likely your able to surpass those barriers of doubt and hopelessness. 

                                                        

Student Success Statement

                                                     "Try a little harder to be a little better."

                                                                                               -Gordon B. Hinckley

Reflection: If you put more effort into your goals in life, you will see improvements. Life is about improving your strengths and weaknesses. Reading what Hinckley says, much of the time when he says "do better" he means in the context of your situation. He means try harder at improving, and try hard so that people will admire and respect you, and so on. 

                                                             

Medical Illustrator

   

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical illustrators are highly skilled artists.  They work strictly in the medical field and create graphics for textbooks, journals, magazines, and educational films. Their drawings span a wide range from microorganisms to body parts.  Some medical illustrators prepare illustrations that aid in research about or creation of artificial body parts.  At times, they are called upon to use modeling skills to create artificial body parts, such as ears, and noses, for patients that are deformed or have undergone some surgeries.

Average Salary:  $35,000 - $50,000 

Educational Requirements:

Students interested in becoming medical illustrators should take a college preparatory program in high school that emphasizes art and science. In college they should either major in art and minor in science or major in science and minor in art.  Undergraduate science courses should be the same as those required for medical school.

Student Success Statement

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."

                                                                                                            -Thomas J. Watson

Reflection: Achieving excellence is relatively simple. You simply "quit" your bad habits and do your best in everything that you do. Focusing on improving your strength AND weaknesses is key to achieving excellence. The world is competitive so you must strive for the best and never settle for less. 

                                                          

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.  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.

Reflection: I would not like to be a medical assistant because it seems more of a average job than an actual career. By looking at their yearly salary, we can assume that they are paid at minimum wage.
                                                       

Licensed Practical Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities: LPNs observe patients and report adverse reactions to medications or treatments. They collect samples for testing; perform routine laboratory tests, feed patients and record food and fluid intake and output. They help patients with bathing, dressing and personal hygiene, keep them comfortable and care for their emotional needs. In states where the law allows, they may administer prescribed medicines or start intravenous fluids. Some LPNs help deliver, care for and feed infants.

Salary: $40,380 per year

Education: to become a licensed practical nurse you need to complete of a formal program plus supervised clinical instruction. Practical nursing educational programs are offered by vocational schools and community colleges, and require high school diploma. Some of the programs require passing an entrance exam. Teaching and learning is an interactive process between teacher and student.  The process recognizes students as adult learners responsible for the result of their educational experiences.  Each student has the right to an educational climate, which will improve his/her ability to learn.  Students should take responsibility for learning by separating each faculty to find learning needs and by using learned information as a basis on which to increase their different learning knowledge, skills, and educational background.

                                      

Student Success Statement

                  “It’s not the will to win, but the will to PREPARE to win that makes the difference.”   
                                                                                                               -Paul Bear Bryant

Reflection: Having the motivation to succeed is one of the keys to success but preparation can also help you in achieving it faster and more efficiently. In life “winning” can be defined in many different ways but each of us has our own thoughts about what will bring us some measure of happiness and security. Each of these could be defined as "winning" in their own ways. 

                                          

Industrial Hygienist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Recognizes, evaluates, and controls chemical, physical, and biological hazards in the work place. Evaluates university compliance with regard to state and federal occupational health and safety regulations, laws, rules, and codes. Educates and informs employees and students about occupational health and safety hazards. This is a specialized classification and is distinguished from the Health/Safety Specialist in that incumbents perform industrial hygiene functions.

Salary: $77,857

Education: Industrial Hygiene is a health profession that uses the concepts of the natural sciences and mathematics, the principles of engineering, and effective public-health management skills to identify, characterize, and control biological, chemical, physical, and psycho-social agents of disease, disability, or discomfort that may arise in or from the workplace and affect the health or standard of living of workers and/or the community at large.

                                           

                                       

Student Success Statement

“Righteous community unity starts with ONE upright soul, whether it is a community of family members, students, neighbors, teammates, or business associates. Unity conquers worthy pursuits more quickly with less effort than individual effort alone.”
                                                                                                        -Steve Haymore
Reflection: It only takes one person to share his ideas to others in order to grab their attention. Worthy goals are achieved more quickly if he has help from a community. 

Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities: Provide routine individualized healthcare such as changing bandages and dressing wounds, and applying topical medications to the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities at the patient's home or in a care facility. Monitor or report changes in health status. May also provide personal care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of patient.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 aides, nursing assistants (CNAs), licensed practical or registered nurses may provide this training.

Salary: That means that the hourly pay rate increases the longer a home health aide works for us. Entry level aides earn $8 per hour, and aides who have worked with us for a few years or more earn up to $13 per hour. According to published information, the national average wage for home health aides is $9.11 per hour. Our average wage is higher.

Education: Home health aides must receive formal training and pass a competency test to work for certified home health or hospice agencies that receive reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid. Personal and home care aides, however, face a wide range of requirements, which vary from state to state.

                                                     

Student Success Statement

                                                   Together Everyone  Achieves  More
                                                                                        -Anonymous

Reflection: Working as a team can be a really important skill to learn. If you try, anything is possible. If you don’t try you won’t know the outcome and improve upon it. Working as a team means having trust in one another and never giving up.
                                                       

Bullet List

1.                                            Working as a team to get to the top
2.                                                               Bravery
3.                                                              Courage
4.                                                    Supporting one another
5.                                       Showing that anything is possible if you try
6.                                                             Teamwork
7.                                                           Holding hands
8.                                                          Sportsmanship
9.                                                           Fearlessness
10.                                                            Partnership

Healthcare Administer

Duties and Responsibilities: 

The health care industry has become a behemoth, employing hundreds of thousands of physicians, nurses, health specialists, and other non-health workers, and wielding considerable clout on Wall Street. Health care administrators run this behemoth, coordinating and organizing the financing and delivery of care and assisting in the management of health facilities. Executive-level administrators are highly educated individuals responsible for overall policy directions. They

• Assess the need for services 
• Make recommendations regarding the expansion or curtailment of services 
• Establish new facilities
• Run compliance with government agencies and regulations. 

Salary: The average annual wage for healthcare administrators was more than $96,000 in May 2011.For healthcare administrators general medical and surgical hospitals, the average was more than $102,000. The average annual wage was $93,770 for administrators at physicians’ offices, while those control home healthcare services earned an average of $85,860.

Education: Healthcare administrator first complete graduate studies. A bachelor’s degree will only open doors at the entry level, and only a lucky few will be able to work up to a top-level position in a small operation or a middle-management position at a larger facility. A Master’s degree in hospital or nursing administration, public health, public or business administration, and other related fields is usually a requirement for executive office.

                                          

Student Success Statement

                                                 "Work as a team to achieve your dream."

                                                                                                  -Sarah Real

Reflection: With teamwork, you can achieve tasks more efficiently. You divide the effort and multiplies the success. "Two heads are better than one" is a popular quote. A variety of ideas are not in the mind of one person. When people form effective team to work towards a common goal ideas are shared together. As a results of shared ideas, it speeds up the selection of possible solutions. "United we stand divided we fall".

Student Success Statement

  "Your mind is a garden,your thoughts are the seeds… You can grow flowers. Or you can grow weeds..."

                                                                                                                            -Anon

Reflection: You mind is capable of producing anything you plant on it. Your thoughts, your seeds,  could be negative or positive. It is inevitably your choice to choose what you want to plant, good thoughts or bad thoughts, flowers or weeds.

                                           

Histology Specialists

Duties and Responsibilities:

Histology Specialists prepare tissue samples that are used by physicians to determine if a patient has a disease, dysfunction, or malignancy. Histologists prepare samples by using equipment to thinly slice tissue samples. They then mount the thin slices on microscope slides and use chemicals to stain them so important structures are visible. Histologists perform more complex and advanced procedures than technicians and often also perform management functions. They work in hospital, veterinary, pharmacy, or research laboratories.

Average Salary:    

$22,000 - $35,000 (Histologic technicians)  

$30,000 - $50,000 (Histologists)

Educational Requirements:

Students should focus on Math, Science, and English. 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

                                    “You will become as great as your dominant aspiration.”
                                                                                                   -James Allen

Reflection: Everyone has the capability of achieving what they most desire. It's up to them whether to work towards it or not. If they do, there efforts will pay off. 
                                                     

Health Science Librarian

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health science librarian work in many places. Some places are the library of a health organization, a pharmaceutical company, health information centers, and medical schools. Librarians are responsible for finding suitable resources, organizing those materials, so they can be easier to find. They are expert at searching specialized data and the Internet. Many of them produce web pages and other guides to finding health-related information resources. The librarian’s position can be full-time or part-time, often in small organizations.

Average Salary: $58,000

Education:
Students must graduate from high school, taking classes such as English, math, typing, and science. A four-year bachelor's degree is then required, including courses such as science and computer science. A master's degree in library science (MLS) is mandatory. Courses include scientific literature, biomedical communication, bibliographic resource use, library organization and management, and standard cataloging systems. While health science librarians are not required to be certified, the Medical Library Association does offer certification examinations which would help a librarian advance to a higher position. 

Answer: I think i would like to be a health science librarian because my dream is to study something related in medicine.
                                                        

Student Success Statement

“A definite worthy goal, combined with a positive mental attitude (PMA), is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement,”

                                                                                         -Napoleon Hill

Reflection: If you put effort into a goal and always keep doing your best, you will achieve that goal. An example can be if you want to join a soccer team. If you really want to do it then you have to be positive about it and not give up and continue to try your best. Most of all you need to believe in your self.

                                                    

                                                       

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. 

Health information specialists work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, physician offices, and many other medical settings.

Average Salary:    

$20,000 - $25,000 (Coding Specialists)  

$23,000 - $30,000 (Record Technicians)  

$30,000 - $40,000 (Record Administrators)

Educational Requirements:

High school courses in business, information management, science, math, and English are needed. 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. 

                                             

Student Success Statement

                                                    "We become what we think about."

                                                                                            -Earl Nightingale

Reflection: We have the power to become whatever we want to be. If we put our minds to it, we can achieve our goal. We decide early in life just how our life will be. We spend the rest of our lives proving we were right.

                                                         

Health Educator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Health educators provide information on health and health related issues.  They can assess health training needs and plan health education programs.  They may specialize according to specific health concerns, illnesses, or work or training setting.  Health educators may work as independent consultants or in health departments, community organizations, businesses, hospitals, schools, or government agencies.  Health Educators often: 

• Perform health training needs assessments.
• Design and develop health education programs.
• Publish health education materials, information papers, and grant proposals.
• Develop health education curriculum.
• Teach health in public and private schools.

Average Salary:  $20,000 - $35,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take college preparatory courses during high school. 

Health educators have, as a minimum, a bachelor's degree in health education.  Many have master's degrees.  To be certified or licensed to teach health in public schools requires a master's degree and successful completion of a written exam in many states.

                                                   

Student Success Statement

                                   "Good thoughts bear good fruit. Bad thoughts bear bad fruit"
                                                                                                    -James Allen

Reflection: If you have positive thoughts and apply those thoughts to your actions, then you can produce a positive outcome or a "good fruit". Studying for a test can be an example. If you work hard and study all the material, you have a better chance of scoring higher and getting all answers correct. If you have negative thoughts  and apply those to your actions, then you bear "bad fruit". 

                                                   

Genetic Counselor

Duties and Responsibilities: Genetic counselors are health professionals who are trained to help families understand genetic disorders and to provide information and support to those families. They may also serve as patient advocates by referring individuals or families to local services that can be of assistance. Genetic Counselors are in charge of:

• evaluating family history and medical records
• ordering genetic tests
• evaluating the results of this investigation
• helping parents understand and reach decisions about what to do next

Salary:  $25,000 - $55,000

Educational Requirements:  Take courses in the undergraduate program such as psychology, biology, statistics, biochemistry, chemistry and genetics to qualify for admission to a genetic counseling program. A master's degree is needed. Many states require genetic counselors to be certified. 

                                                 

Student Success Statement

                              “I wasn't trying to leave a legacy, I was trying to do what was right.”

                                                                                                             -Dean Smith

Reflection: It is not always about winning or leaving behind a legacy or anything of that sort, but the important thing is that you do what is right. From the right actions that you commit, you'll become a legacy and win. So don't focus on leaving a mark- focus on doing what is right in order to then leave a mark. Dean himself says that it wasn't in his intentions to leave behind a legacy but his main goal was to what was right. Dean Smith has come a long way because of his mindset on choosing the right (and not on success), along with his team that won UNC National Championships.

                                           

Epidemiologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Epidemiologists study the frequency and distribution of diseases within human populations and environments. Specifically, they measure the incidence of disease occurrence and relate it to different characteristics of populations and environments. Epidemiologists perform research, education, and public health practice in universities, government agencies, international organizations, and private corporations. Epidemiologists often: 

• Work on developing or refining methods of measuring and evaluating disease occurrences.
• Develop and recommend public health policy.
• Study or research chronic diseases, infectious diseases, disease outbreaks, injuries, occupations, and environments.

Average Salary:  $30,000 - $50,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging high school courses (including AP or IB courses) available in science, math, and English. 

Epidemiologists have, as a minimum, master's degrees in public health.  Undergraduate requirements for admissions into public health graduate programs vary by schools but usually include strong backgrounds in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and or statistics. 

                                     

Student Success Statements

                            “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all”

                                                                                                                  -Aristole

Reflection: The real meaning of education is to open the door of mind and windows of heart. That means you are studying not only to earn money but also to serve humanity. If you hole yourself up and study for the sake of having knowledge then sure, you'll be intelligent, but what good would it do you? An educated heart would be educated in the practice of self-knowledge. It is to understand yourself before you understand the world. To truly know yourself is far more difficult than science and mathematics. People tend to think too highly or too little of themselves, without ever truly understanding whom they really are. An educated heart would be educated about affections, and the ways of interaction.

                                                                

Environmental Health Specialist (Sanitarians)

Duties and Responsibilities:

Sanitarians, or environmental health specialists, enforce government regulations and advise and educate clients. They also improve water and sanitation facilities and are involved in improving the quality of community environments.  They often: 

• Collect and analyze samples.
• Screen samples for possible health hazards.
• Design or manage sanitation, disposal, and water systems.
• Oversee disposal of infectious wastes.
• Develop and manage prevention and education programs.
• Evaluate and identify health hazards and ensure compliance with regulations.

Average Salary:  $25,000 - $50,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take college preparatory courses, especially in mathematics and science, during high school. 

A career as a sanitarian or environmental health specialist requires a minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in environmental health or environmental engineering.  Many jobs require certification and/or a Master's Degree in these, or related fields. 

Student Success Statement

                               "CTR connects you to happiness and success-CTW disconnects."
                                                                                                       -Steve Haymore

Reflection: Choosing the right can lead  you to many pleasures in life and can lead you to success. From your work to your family, you can achieve happiness by choosing the right. By choosing the wrong, (drugs, stealing, etc.) you can lose that happiness and you won't be able to achieve it unless you change.      

Emergency Medical Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, usually work in teams of two in specially designed ambulances. They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatment at the scenes of accidents and injuries as well as transport casualties to hospital emergency rooms for further care. The job is both physically demanding and stressful.  Emergency medical technicians often respond to: 

• Automobile accidents
• Heart attacks
• Gunshot woundings
• Unscheduled childbirth
• Drownings
• Other serious medical emergencies

Average Salary:  $25,000 - $37,500

Educational Requirements:

Students must have a high school diploma (in some areas GED certificates may be substituted) in order to become an emergency medical technician.  Driver's education, health, and science courses are strongly recommended and may be required before enrolling in some training programs. 

Basic emergency medical technician training includes about  100-120 hours spent in the classroom and 10 hours in a hospital emergency room.  Emergency medical technicians are required to pass state licensing or certification tests and participate in continuing education programs.  Many emergency medical technicians earn associate degrees in their field.

                                           

Student Success Statement

                                       “Choosing the right is always the right thing to do.”

                                                                                            -Alex Linares

Reflection: Doing whats right can have it's advantages. You can make a friend, have a good conscience with the feeling that your helping the world, and have people follow your example of a good person. It's always the right thing to do.

Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Electroneurodiagnostic technologists use electronic graphs to determine if patients are suffering from a central nervous system condition or disease like epilepsy, tumors, stroke, or trauma.  The graphs are records of the brain's electrical activity.  Electroneurodiagnostic technologists usually work in hospitals, laboratories, or physicians' offices.  They: 

• Prepare medical records.
• Apply electrodes and select instrument settings.
• Perform electroneurodiagnostic tests.
• Adjust and maintain their equipment.
• Record test results.
• Identify patient abnormalities.

Average Salary:  $20,000 - $35,000

Educational Requirements:

Electroneurodiagnostic technologists must have a high school diploma and and some courses in computer technology before beginning specialized training. 

Electroneurodiagnostic training can be obtained through vocational schools, community colleges, and in some cases hospitals.  Training takes one year and is followed by another year of supervised experience.  Before beginning practice electroneurodiagnostic technologists must pass written and oral examinations.

                                                       

Student Success Statement

                                          "It's better to be alone than to be in bad company."

                                                                                                        -ANON

Reflection: It's better to be by yourself than being with a bad crowd. You would be in more harm if you are with bad company. These can included people who use drugs, steal, etc. It's better to be alone than to be around these people. Being alone does not mean your lonely because you're enjoying your own company.

Student Success Statement

                                      "You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible."
                                                                                                  -Ezra T. Benson

Reflection: Everyone has a conscience. If you know what you did was wrong, it will not feel right no matter the situation. There is no way you can be comfortable with something you did wrong because eventually you'll feel guilty.

Electrocardiograph Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) technicians usually work under the supervision of cardiologists in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, or bedside.  They operate electrocardiogram equipment to monitor patients' heart problems.  They: 

• Connect electrodes to patients.
• Insert and remove catheters.
• Monitor equipment output.
• Record test results.
• Identify emergencies or abnormalities.
• Operate ultrasound equipment.

Average Salary:  $15,000 - $32,000

Educational Requirements:

Electrocardiograph technicians must have a high school diploma or GED before beginning specialized training. 

Electrocardiograph training can be obtained through vocational schools, community colleges, and in some cases through on-the-job supervised experience.  Basic training takes three to six months.  Advanced training takes one to two years.

                                                 

Registered Dietitian

Duties and Responsibilities:

Registered Dietitians provide advice and education about nutrition and its affect on health.  They work in schools, educational administration, research, hospitals, clinics, industry, food service management, and private practice.  Registered dietitians:

• Organize and supervise food service operations and meal preparation.
• Make dietary recommendations.
• Counsel patients and clients about diets.
• Supervise food purchasing.
• Study the nutritional value of food and how it is used by the body.

Average Salary:  $30,000 - $40,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take a challenging high school curriculum that includes math and science courses.  High school business courses may also prove helpful.

A Bachelor's Degree in dietetics or a related field approved by the American Dietetic Association is required.  Registered dietitians must also pass a professional exam and complete a supervised practicum.