Health Information Specialists

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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 practioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There are a variety of job specialties within this field including Registered Record Administrators, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialists. Administrators coordinate the various information management responsibilities and supervise record technicians and coding specialists. Record technicians ensure medical records are accurate, coordinate, reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for research. Coding specialists assign and post correct diagnoses and procedure codes to records and report codes to insurance companies.

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)

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Student Success Statement

"There is no pillow so soft as a 

clear conscience"

French Proverb

I feel what this quote has to say is that with a clear conscience you have a clear mind. Somehow you feel relieved. As if everything it as peace and there's nothing bothering you at all. It honestly does feel softer than a pillow.

Nurse Practitioner and

Clinical Nurse Specialist

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Duties and Responsibility:

Nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists are advanced practice registered nurses who have received special courses and training. They often specialize in specific types of practice such as pediatrics, psychiatry, or obstetrics. Some establish private practices: however, most work in doctor’s offices, hospitals, or neighborhood health centers. Duties often include:

·        Taking detailed medical histories and performing complete physical exams.

·         Providing diagnoses and recommending treatment plans

·        Treating common medical conditions, illnesses, and injuries

·        Prescribing limited medications

·        Counseling patients and families

Average Salary: $39,000 - $70,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take challenging high school courses in science, math, and English.

Students must complete all of the education requirements to become a baccalaureate prepared registered nurses. They must complete additional master’s level training and pass a certificate examination.

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Student Success Statement

"You have only ways to do what

 is right. It will become easier by

practice, and you enjoy in the 

midst of your trials the pleasure of

an approving conscience.

Robert E. Lee

I know that choosing the right will always lead you to the right life. With that being said, choosing the right directs you to the right path. I believe this quote is quite explanatory within itself. Simply, it is just saying that doing what is right will eventually become easy. It is just a process  For example, a football player doesn't just wake up one morning and become professional. It is all a process that needs to be taken at your own pace. In life, we all have choices. Wither they be right or wrong, we choose what goes left or right. For instance, we chose to all come to school today, Now we could have ditched but we all didn't. We just gotta choose the right.

Clinical Laboratory Specialists

Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical Laboratory Specialists include both Clinical Laboratory Technicians and Clinical Technologists. These professions are also referred to as Medical Laboratory Technicians or Medical Technologists. Both technicians and technologists perform laboratory work to identify, diagnose, and treat diseases.

Clinical laboratory technicians use microscopes, laboratory equipment, chemicals and computers to perform laboratory procedures. They also collect blood specimens and prepare culture media. They conduct tests and prepare reports for clinical technologists or physicians.

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Student Success Statement

“Have the courage to say no. Have the

courage to face the truth. Do the right

thing because it is right. These are the

magic keys to living your life with

integrity.”

W. Clement Stone

If you follow everything in chronological order based on what is right, than everything will come right to you. Honestly, it is pretty simple. All you literally have to do is, right.

Chiropractors

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Educational Requirements:

       Students who want to become chiropractors should take challenging high school science, math and English courses.

      Chiropractors must complete a ten semester program in a chiropractic college after completing two years of college or junior college study.

Most states require that chiropractors pass a certification examination before being granted a license to practice.

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Student Success Statement

" If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true 

do not say it. "

Marcus Aurelius

   What this quote has to say is based on honesty, knowing what kind of person you are, and preventing hurt feelings. We control our actions and what comes out of our own mouths. When they say: "if it is not true do not say it", I believe an example of what they are trying to say is spreading rumors. Spreading rumors is like spilling toothpaste out of the tube. Once it's out, it is hard to try and take it back in and clean up the mess. I strongly and sincerely do agree with the message this quote is trying to send.

Patterson University Students Choose the Right

             

         Four football students, that attend to Patterson University, find themselves into an open-door-ed store one Sunday afternoon. Little do they know, however, that the store is closed and they door was just left unlocked. Now, we all know that ones' first instinct is to steal, if we knew that there was no supervision, that is. Not these guys. When they finally came to realization of what the situation was, they didn't steal any items. Nor did they take any money or wreck the place. They left the store the exact same way they entered the store. Honest.

        If doing right or wrong, in which case, either way, there will be consequences. I know for a fact, that since they decided to do right, they got rewarded for it. They could have easily stole some things since there wasn't any supervision to tell them what is right and wrong. However, they didn't need that. They had their conscious.  

Chiropractor

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Duties and Responsibilities:

       Chiropractors treat patients by manually adjusting parts of the human body, especially the spine. Chiropractors and their patients believe the problems with bone and nerve alignment can cause illness and problems in other parts of the body, a view not widely accepted by allopathic physicians and other traditional medical practitioners.

     Chiropractors manipulate their patients’ spinal columns for treatment. They may prescribe specific diets or exercises, but not drugs. Chiropractors cannot perform surgeries.

     Most chiropractors establish a private practice and some provide home treatments. Others form group partnerships in clinics or chiropractic hospitals.

Average Salary: $30,000 - $100,000

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Student Success Statement

"I have three messages:

1. We should never give up.

2. You are never to old to chase your dreams.

3. It looks like solitary sport, but it takes a team."

Diana Nyad, American Swimmer

               I know that these three messages are what Diana Nyad stands for. they're her principles that she stands by. She feels that if we go by and listen to these messages, we will be able to accomplish many, for instance, the way she did, in which case.

Biomedical Equipment Technician

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Biomedical equipment technicians inspect, maintain, and repair different types of medical equipment used to diagnose and treat disease. They perform safety checks and train practitioners to safely operate equipment. Biomedical equipment technology has been one of the fastest growing medical career fields in recent years.

Average Salary: $20,000 - $38,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take challenging science, math, and electronic courses in high school.

Following high school, biomedical equipment technicians complete one to three years of course work in biomedical equipment technology, medical electronics, or biomedical engineering. Most programs lead to certification and/or associate degrees. Some employers will hire electronics technicians and provide on-the-job biomedical technology training.

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Music.

Music .

Music is just so absolutely, positively, and creatively wonderful.

It fills your soul in ways you can't understand.

There aren't any words that can explain half of the way I feel towards my love for music.

When a person, or personally myself, is joyful, we hear the music.

However, if the individual is depressed, for some reason, we can only understand the lyrics.

I feel that music has taught me so many life lessons.

I love to listen to the stories, as well.

One perfect example is, the song "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin.

Now, many might claim that song to be as a "satanic" song.

 But from my understanding, it is simply a song about a lady who is buying all this gold, little does she know that it is all fake.

But in her eyes she's buying " a stairway to heaven "

Another one of my all time favorites would be "Touch of the Hem of His Garment" by Sam Cooke

I know it is more gospel but the story it has to tell is just so amazing.

I, and will always, find oldies and older rock more fascinating then any type of genre there can possibly be.

Students Success Statement

"To know what is right and to not do it 

is the worst cowardice."

Confucius

I believe the quote simply explains itself. What Confucius means by a sign of cowardice in knowing what is right and still not doing it, is that you are being a coward in your actions. I feel like a person is just being lazy in not doing, in which case, what they're suppose to and to be doing another.

Biomedical Engineer

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Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available in high school.

All biomedical engineers have at least a bachelor’s degree in engineering. Many have advanced graduate degrees as well. Courses of study include a sound back round of mechanical, chemical, or industrial engineering, and specialized biomedical training. Most programs last from four to six years and all states require biomedical engineers to pass examinations and be licensed.

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I LOVE FOOD. 

Food is just like OMG.

Food is life.

Food is the only one there for you.

Food loves you.

Food. Who doesn't like food ?

Food is just like awesomeness!!!

Food is love.

Love is food.

Food is all we need.

Food is in your soul.

Who needs friends, when you have food (;

Who needs to be social, when you have food .

I love food.

'Nuff said.

Student Success Statement

"Always do right"

Mark Twain

      From this quote, I can actually say that I have no idea what Mark Twain is trying to say. I know, literally speaking, he intentionally means to always do what's right. Either that be in  decisions or actions, in the doing. However, metaphorically speaking, I don't understand what  it means to do right. Everyone can see what is right and what is wrong, but to actually do what is right is based on the individual. I believe what Mark Twain is trying to get at is that doing right can always lead you somewhere. It is just plain and simple to "always do right" and I strongly agree with Mark Twain's idea. 

Biomedical Engineer

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Biomedical Engineers use engineering principles to solve health related and medical problems. They do a lot of research in conjunction with life scientists, chemists, and medical professionals to design medical devices like artificial hearts, pacemakers, dialysis machines, and surgical lasers. Some conduct research on biological and other life systems or investigate ways to modernize laboratory and clinical procedures.

Frequently, biomedical engineers supervise biomedical equipment maintenance technicians, investigate medical equipment failure, and advise hospitals and installing new equipment.

Biomedical engineers work in hospitals, universities, industry, and research laboratories.

Average Salary: $29,000 - $600,000

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Student Success Statement

"Success is simple.

Do what's right, the right way, at the right time"

Arnold H. Glasgow

What does it even mean to do right?

That's one simple question that the human being can't even answer themselves. When, in reality, we all have our own definitions of doing what's "right". To me, however, doing what's right doesn't necessarily have one answer. To do what is right, simply and can only mean, knowing your morals, values, and what you stand for and what you believe is right. Doing what's right does not mean, for say, helping an old lady crossing the street or picking up trash at the park. Doing what is right is always being honest because you, yourself, feel that it is wrong to lie. Doing what's right may also mean not falling into peer pressure because that's one principle you have always followed. It only comes natural for all of us to do what is wrong, but we have to teach and learn what we feel is right. That is simply what I feel towards doing right "at the right time" or even in the "right way"

Audiologist

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Duties and Responsibilities:

            Audiologists work with patients who have hearing disorders. They may work in hospitals or clinics, private practice, schools or universities, nursing homes, industry, or research lavatories. They perform examinations, tests and evaluations as well as provide treatment. Audiologists often:

·         Test and measure hearing functions

·         Identify types of hearing disorders

·         Develop and provide patient rehabilitation plans and programs

·         Conduct audio logical research

·         Provide educational, medical, and professional consultation

·         Recommend, dispense, and test hearing aids

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, English, and speech.

Audiologists have master’s degrees in audiology and are licensed.

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Student Success Statement:

"We need the courage to start and continue what we 

should do, and the courage to stop

what we shouldn't do"

Richard L. Evens

One of my favorite quotes has always been: "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone", and I do feel that, that quote can perfectly imply to this topic. To" have the courage to start" is the same to your life beginning "at the end of your comfort zone". When someone is comfortable, in which case of where they stand in their life, they start to become lazy. With that being said, it does honestly take alot of courage to start your life and what we should do with it. To "have the courage to stop what we shouldn't do" can mean alot of things. To me, however, it has to do with peer pressure. Knowing who you are, your morals and values. As well as, knowing how to stand up for your morals and values. 

Athletic Trainer

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Athletic trainers work with athletic teams, athletes, coaches, and sports medicine physicians. They help develop training programs to prevent injuries as well as rehabilitation programs for the injured. They treat injured athletes under the direction of team or sports medicine physicians. Before athletic events they will bandage, wrap, and affix braces to prevent injuries. They work on the muscles of athletes before and after events. In addition, they may set up nutritional diets and meals for athletes in training. Athletic trainers will also advise on protective gear and on training equipment.

Athletic trainers work for sports teams, schools, colleges, clinics, health clubs, corporations, and hospitals.

Average Salary: $25,000 - $35,000

Educational Requirements:

-Students should take challenging science, math, and English courses in high school.

To be a certified athletic trainer, students must complete an educational program that includes 1,500 hours of supervised clinical experience. Most programs result in a bachelor’s degree from a college with an emphasis in physical education.

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                         Student Success Statement

            "Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

                                                        Peter F. Drucker

                      Reflection: I strongly do believe that the quote itself already is explaining itself. To "start with what is right rather than what is acceptable" means to simply just believe and do what is right. I believe that we have to just believe in our instincts, morals, and values and just stick to them in any situation that can possible ever occur. We should always do what's right and never do what others think is "acceptable". The only people who are to judge what truly is acceptable is no one other, but yourself. If a person isn't satisfied with themselves than it shouldn't even come across their mind to try and be "acceptable" for somebody else. I we do what's right, everything will be right. If we do wrong, everything will be wrong. 

Allopathic Physician (M.D)

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Educational Requirements:

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

After three or four years of college, prospective physicians must attend medical school. Undergraduate requirements for admission to all medical schools include one year of basic chemistry, one year of organic chemistry, one year of biology, and one year of physics. Some medical schools also require course work in calculus, English, the humanities, or social science.

Medical school usually includes two years of additional study in both basic and clinical sciences and is followed by a year-long hospital internship. Physicians who want to specialize must then undertake a three-year residency in their specialty.

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HPIAM

      Huntington Park Institute of Applied Medicine

         Daily Enrichment for 2013-14

    

      “Health-Related Careers and Descriptions”

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Allopathic Physician (M.D.)

Duties and Responsibilities:

Allopathic physicians, M.D.s, are medical doctors who treat disease and injury using counteractive methods. For example, they will prescribe antibiotics to kill bacteria that have caused an infection. Allopathic physicians often work in public or private hospitals or clinics and many have private practices. Their work hours can be long and irregular. Although many allopathic physicians become internists, generalists, or family practioners, most specialize on other medical fields.

Specialties include:

·        Anesthesiologist  - administers anesthesia

·        Cardiologist – treats heart disease

·        Dermatologist – treats skin conditions

·        Gastroenterologist – treats digestive problems

·        Gerontologist – provides care for elderly

·        Gynecologist – treats female reproductive system problems

·        Neurologist – treats brain and nervous system problems

·        Obstetrician – provides pregnancy care and delivers babies

·        Oncologist – treats cancer

·        Orthopedist – treats skeletal problems

·        Pathologist – interprets disease in tissues

·        Pediatrician  - provides care for children

·        Pulmonologist  - treats respiratory problems

·        Surgeon – performs operations

·        Urologist – treats urinary problems

Average Salary: $100,000 - $275,000

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Student Success Statement