Q4-HEALTH-COMPONENT-PLANNING-FOR-HEALTH-CAREER.pptx

Lesson

1. PLANNING FOR HEALTH CAREER

2. What is the importance? Health careers are getting important nowadays because of abundance of health care-related works.

3. People are becoming more and more health conscious and they put health as a priority in their lives.

4. Those who work in the prevention and the cure are of illnesses or injuries are considered important.

5. HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS

6. The Health Science career is divided into five pathways: Therapeutics services Diagnostics services Support services Health informatics Biotechnology research and development

7. 1. Therapeutics services or direct patient care -also considered as “hands-on” patient care

8. Example: Medical specialist attending to patients, nurses, and nursing care provider, physical therapist, dentist.

9. 2. Imaging and diagnostics -responsible for the use of technology in the diagnoses of patients

10. Example: Medical laboratory technologist, ultrasound, x-ray technicians, radiologist

11. 3. Support services -responsible for keeping a clean and sanitary hospital or therapeutic environment

12. Example: Hospital maintenance engineers and technicians, environmental facilities managers

13. 4. Health informatics and business -Includes documentation services, medical record management, hospital unit coordination, hospital information and communication system

14. Example: Health information coders, data analysts, health care administrations, medical billers, public health educators

15. 5. Research and development -contributes to the advancement of health care through science and technology

16. Example: Biomedical chemist, toxicologist, pharmaceutical scientist, biomedical engineers

17. HEALTH CAREER

18. 1. Public health

19. 1. Public health -it addresses health concerns of communities at risk for disease and injury.

20. 3 primary task of public health

21. 1. Assess and monitor the health communities

22. 2. Formulate policies.

23. 3. Assure that all population have access to appropriate and cost-effective care.

24. Career opportunities: Public health practice Health education

25. 3. Epidemiology 4. Environmental health 5. International health

26. 6. Maternal and child health 7. Nutrition 8. Health services administration

27. 2. Personal health care

28. 2. Personal health care Includes companionship and assistance to people who need to remain safe and engage in day-to-day activities.

29. Also considered non-medical or private duty, caregivers are in demand, especially to the elderly who needs companions.

30. 3. Maternal and Child Care

31. 3. Maternal and Child Care Concerned with the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period.

32. Concerns: 1. Family planning and preconception care-screening and health education.

33. 2. Prenatal care -for early detection of any potential complications of pregnancy.

34. 3. Postnatal care -recovery from childbirth, newborn care, nutrition, breastfeeding.

35. 4. Mental Health Practitioners

36. 4. Mental Health Practitioners They are professionals who are trained to help patients who have mental and emotional problems and illnesses.

37. They are the psychologists, psychiatrist, professional counselors, clinical social workers, and related specialists.

38. Psychologists -are professionals who counsel people who have deep emotional problems.

39. -they also work in hospitals, criminal justice system, schools, and other institution.

40. 2. Psychiatrists -medical practitioners who diagnose and treat patients who have mental illnesses.

41. -those who have problems in substance abuse are also treated by a psychiatrist.

42. 3. Counselors - Assist people with problems to mental health and to making family, personal, educational, and career decisions.

43. 5. Community Health Career

44. Career that helps local communities receive care from the social service system and government. 5. Community Health Career

45. 6. Environmental Health Career

46. Career that studies how the environment influences human health and disease. 6. Environmental Health Career

47. 7. Drug Prevention And Control

48. People whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs and policy advocacy.

49. Psychiatrist and Psychologist 2. Psychiatric nurses and detox specialist

50. 3.Counselor 4. professors, researchers, and social workers

51. 8. Nutrition And Dietetics

52. A field of science that is concerned with the relationship between health and nutrition.

53. Dietitian are professional who design nutrition therapist to help the body be protected against disease.

54. 9. Health Education

55. Profession that involves educating people health.

56. 10. Nursing

57. NURSE is a professional who are concerned with the attainment, maintenance, and recovery of patients.

58. 11. Emergency Medical Services

59. People assigned in this work specialize in out-of-hospital medical care. Their skills include first-aid procedures, emergency medical treatment and transport of patients, rapid emergency medical response and immediate medical attention.

60. Sometimes known as paramedic service or rescue aid squad.

61. Quiz

62. 1. Types of health careers wherein -also considered as “hands-on” patient care

63. 2. Responsible for the use of technology in the diagnoses of patients

64. 3. Addresses health concerns of communities at risk for disease and injury.

65. 4. Concerned with the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period.

66. 5-6 Give 2 concerns of maternal and Child Care.

67. 7. Focus on the mental and emotional problems and illnesses.

68. 8-10 Give 3 professional practitioners under mental health