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You can start your Health Care career in many different places, depending on your education. At WA Career Bridge, jobs are organized by how much education and training they require.
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The Health Care professions represent one of the largest employment areas in the United States. This field attracts people with a wide range of educational backgrounds, from high school through graduate school, because it offers such a variety of career options.
The growth of the health care industry has many factors including:
- Our growing elderly population, This has caused extreme growth in the need for home health care, community health workers, and clinical outpatient services.
- Managed-care and cost-control efforts have generated growth in positions that do many of the routine tasks that doctors and dentists used to perform; at a much lower cost to patients and insurance companies.
- Technology advances have created entirely new positions within the Health Information Technology field.
- Increased health consciousness has increased the growth in such fields as health advocates and counselors.
Did You Know.....
That you could have a healthcare career without being a nurse or doctor?
When people think about healthcare as a career they often focus on the most traditional, visible roles: doctors and nurses but there are many other choices for you in the healthcare field. There are over 100 recognized allied health professions and most of these are experiencing shortages - many greater than nursing.
What is Allied Health?
A way of understanding what allied health includes is to picture a hospital and all those involved with patient care except for doctors, nurses and pharmacists. Allied health professionals include dietitians, occupational therapists, physical therapists radiographers, and speech language pathologists.
Allied health professionals are healthcare practitioners with formal education and clinical training who are credentialed through certification, registration and/or licensure. These professionals work to deliver high-quality patient care services for the identification, prevention and treatment of diseases, disabilities and disorders.
Education levels differ among allied health professions. A considerable amount of programs give specialized instruction for jobs in allied health services immediately following graduation from high school. Students anticipating a career in allied health services can enroll in programs heading to a certificate or degree at the associate, baccalaureate, professional or grad level.
Who are Allied Health Professionals?
There are hundreds of allied health professions and over six million people in allied health related careers today, which represents about 60% of all healthcare providers. Working within allied health means you will be immersed in patient care (directly or indirectly). As an allied health provider you may work within a team, providing constant assessment and interpretation of patient needs; or you may practice independently.
Allied Health Professionals:
- Improve the quality of patient care
- Typically attend 2 or 4 year educational programs in community colleges or universities.
- Are educated in over 1000 programs in the U.S., which are staffed by 3000+ allied health faculty and enroll over 30,000 students.
- Are experiencing a workforce shortage greater than currently seen in nursing.
Two Broad Categories:
Due to a considerable healthcare staffing shortage, allied health professionals are in high demand. The allied health professions fall into two broad categories: technicians (assistants) and therapist/technologists. Technicians are trained to perform procedures; they are required to work under the supervision of technologists or therapists.
The educational process for therapists or technologists is more intensive and includes acquiring procedural skills. Students of therapy/technology learn to evaluate patients, diagnose conditions, develop treatment plans and understand the rationale behind various treatments in order to judge their appropriateness and potential side effects. Students learn to evaluate patients; responses to therapy and make appropriate decisions about continued treatment or modification treatment plans.
Some Examples of Allied Health Professionals Include:
Physical therapists, dental technicians, psychologists, midwives, medical technicians, physician’s assistants, laboratory technicians, medical technologist, medical transporters, paramedics, laboratory technologists, public health advocates, occupational therapists, and audiologists, among many others.
Members of each profession provide unique services, which support patients as they recover from trauma, learn to manage chronic conditions, or struggle with emergence of acute conditions.
Below are some examples of the careers Allied Health encompasses:
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