Student Success Statement
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Benjamin Franklin

student success statement
"courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway."
Chae Richardson

wellness professional

Duties and Responsibilities: Wellness professionals support, and train people on their health and fitness goals.The types of goals are as varied weight and diabetes prevention and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Salary: $53,100

Education: A wellness professional often has a degree in nursing, fitness or sports medicine. There are no specific requirements but many positions require on the job training and certification from an accredited wellness organization.

Student Success Statement

"You can't hire someone to do your push-ups for you."

Jim Rohn

student success statement

"Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude....a man's attitude will create the situation he imagens."

James Allen

Student Success Statement

"Kindness is the essence of greatness."

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Speech Pathologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Speech pathologist asses, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in patients. Speech, language, and swallowing disorders result from a variety of causes such as stroke, brain injury, hearing loss, developmental delay, a cleft palate, cerebral palsy, or emotional problems.

Salary:

$69,870

Education:

To become a Speech Pathologist you must earn a Master’s degree.

1. Gave money
2. Gave food to homeless
3. Donated clothes
4. Received money
5. Returned lost phone
6. Returned lost wallet
7. Say bless you when someone sneezes

Student Success Statement

"Visualization-Imagination: What you see is what you get"

Anon

Sonographer

Duties and Responsibilities:

Sonographers, or ultrasound technologists, work with equipment that directs very high frequency sound waves into the body tissue to produce images or pictures of internal organs, diseased masses, and fetuses. These images are then used by physicians to diagnose and treat patients. Some sonographers specialize in a certain part of the body.

Salary:

$24,000-$38,000

Education:

Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available to them in High School. Sonographer training programs are offered at community college and hospitals. They can be completed in one or four years depending on prior work experience. They must pass annual certification test. 

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Student Success Statement

"You will never be a winner if you lose you temper"

Anon

Social Worker

Duties and Responsibilities:

Social Workers help people and their families adjust to problems in their lives such as serious illness, child abuse, substance abuse, mental illness, handicaps, juvenile delinquency, and anti-social behavior. Often they must help people accept situations that cannot be changed.  Frequently they work with the underclass, including the homeless, chronically unemployed, and mentally ill. Most social workers work for the government in offices, hospitals, clinics, prisons, or the courts.  Some also work in nursing homes, group homes, schools, or businesses.

Their duties often include:

•          Interviewing and counseling individuals, families, and groups.
•          Assessing needs and developing response plans.
•          Referring clients to professional or community services.
•          Coordinating responses between civic, religious, governmental, and other organizations.

Salary:  $20,000 - $42,000

Education:

Students should prepare for a career in social work by taking challenging high school courses in English, science, and math. Some organizations may allow a social worker to practice with a bachelor's degree in social work, however most positions require a graduate degree.  Clinical positions require additional licensing after the completion of one or two year supervised internships.

Student Success Statement

"A CTR champion is a person who makes a great human out of himself."

Noemi Trigueros 

Environmental Health Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Environmental health specialists enforce government regulations and advise and educate clients.  They also improve water and sanitation facilities and they improve the quality of community environments.  Some of their duties are: 

• 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 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 or a master's Degree in these or related fields.

student success statement

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

William Penn

X-Ray Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Radiologic Technologists use x-ray machines, ultrasound machines, magnetic resonance scanners, positron emission scanners, and other technologically advanced machines to help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries under the direction of a physician.  They are responsible for explaining and getting patients ready for radiological tests and treatment that will be performed.  They place the equipment at the right distance and right angle from the patient to make the appropriate images for the physician.  Radiographers also assist physicians in performing sophisticated procedures.  It is their responsibility to ensure that the radiology equipment is properly maintained.  They work in hospitals, clinics, medical laboratories, nursing homes, and in private industry.

Average Salary:  $24,000 - $36,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available in high school. To become a registered radiologic technologist, students must complete a two year training program in a hospital or school.  A high school diploma or GED certificate is required for entry into these programs. 

Student success statement

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

Abraham Lincoln

Radiation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Radiation therapy technologist assists radiologist and oncologist in treating diseases by exposing areas of patient’s bodies to ionizing radiation. In addition to helping with treatments, technologist is responsible for maintaining the radiation therapy equipment and helping maintain patient records. Radiation therapy is provided in hospitals, public health clinics, cancer treatment centers, and private offices.

Average Salary:

$22,000-$36,000

Education:

Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available in high school. Students can train to become a radiation therapist in either one or two year programs.  One year programs are often offered by hospitals.  To qualify for a one year program, an applicant must have graduated from an approved program in radiologic technology or been a nurse with education in radiation physics.  A high school diploma or a GED is required to enter two year courses.

Student Success Statement
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon self respect, dignity, integrity, and self esteem.
Dr.Laura Schlessinger

Psychologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychologists study the behavior and actions of people to understand, explain, and change their behavior patterns. They also give counseling. They work in schools, clinics, hospitals, and private practice. Their duties include:

·         Diagnosing and treating problems.

·         Interviewing and observing patients.

·         Developing, selecting, and administering test.

·         Counseling patients, groups, and families.

·         Developing mental health programs.

·         Conducting research and teaching.

Average salary:  $45,000 - $65,000

Educational Requirements:

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

Licensed psychologists must earn a Ph.D. in psychology.  Admission to graduate programs is usually dependent on the quality of undergraduate performance in a psychology major.  Clinical psychologists must complete a two-year supervised internship after earning their doctorate and pass oral and written state qualifying exams.

Student success statement

"Right is right only when entire."

Victor Hugo

                Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychiatrists work with people who have mental illness. They are licensed to use a wide variety of treatments and may write prescriptions.  Psychiatrists may work for the government, private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities.  Their duties include:

Designing treatment programs.

Conducting psychotherapy sessions.

Prescribing potent mental illness drugs.

Supervising electrotherapy treatments.

Conducting research.

Leading a team of mental health care providers.

Average Salary:  $90,000 - $200,000

Educational Requirements:

They must complete the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine. They must also psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.

student success statement

"your worth consists in what you are and not what you have."

Thomas Edison

Psychiatric Aide

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychiatric aides take care of all the physical or mental needs of a person.  They have to make beds, serve meals, and help patients dress, eat, and bathe, if necessary. Check vital signs, administer medications, collect specimens and blood samples, serve meals and feed patients that need assistance. Organize, direct and encourage patients to participate in educational, social and recreational activities. Provide intake services to patients entering treatment.

Salary: $43,430 - $81,063

Educational Requirements:

You can become a psychiatric aide with a high school diploma or high school equivalent such as a G.E.D.

When you tell one lie
Paul Hatch
when you tell one lie, it leads yo another
So you tell two lies to cover each other
Then you tell three lies and, Oh brother,
You're in trouble up to you r ears

So you tell four lies to try to protect you
Then you tell fives lies do folks wont suspect you
Then you tell six lies and you'll collect
A life filled  with worries and fears

'Cause you cant remember how many lies you've told
And half the things you say aren't true
And sometimes you'll slip up, you'll trip up and then
Whatever will become of you?

So you  lie and lie without t even trying
And each lie you tell will keep multiplying
Till the whole world will know you're lying
Then you'll be
Suspected
Detected
Rejected
Neglected
Disliked
And you should!
When you lie, you re closing the door
ON everything good

student success statement

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in DETERMINATION."

Tommy Lasorda

Reflection:What i think this quote means is that ifyou think something is impossible you wont be able to do it if you think you can and keep trying you will do it

Pharmacy Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Pharmacy Technicians responsibility is filling prescriptions according to doctor’s orders for patients.  Technicians measure the correct amount of medication from larger containers to prescription size containers. They also add drugs to intravenous solutions. Some of their duties include:

·         Checking inventories and ordering supplies.

·         Keeping pharmacy work areas clean.

·         Helping fill out insurance forms.

Average Salary:  $15,000 - $25,000

Educational Requirements:

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

A high school diploma is usually required to begin pharmacy technician training.  Then a two year course to receive a certificate is available at most community colleges. 

student success statement 

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.Live the life you have imagined."

Henry David Thoreau

Pharmacist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Pharmacists prepare prescriptions written by physicians, dentist, and other practitioners. They review these prescriptions to validate their accuracy and then prepare the medication. This can include weighing, measuring, and mixing drugs. Pharmacist also answer questions patients may have about the drugs they are taking. Pharmacist work in hospitals, clinics, health departments, universities, grocery, and drug stores.

Average Salary:

$33,000-$51,000

Education:

Students should take the most challenging high school classes available in English, science, and math. Pharmacists must graduate from a college of pharmacy.  Most pharmacy schools require applicants to take the pharmacy college admissions test, and other colleges will admit students directly from high school.

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Student Success Statement

"I will Persist until I succeed."

Og Mandino 

Perfusionist

Duties and Responsibilities:
Perfusionists operate circulation equipment when it is necessary to replace the patient’s circulatory or respiratory functions. This is most common in heart surgery and similar operations. Perfusionists also control the temperature of the patients during surgery. Their duties include:
• Operating heart and lung machines
• Administering some types of anesthesia
• Administering some types of medication
Average salary:
$50,000
Education Requirements:
A high school diploma with strong background in biology and chemistry is required to be accepted in Perfusionist training programs. Admission preference is given to students with college science work or experience in respiratory therapy and medical terminology.

student success statement

"nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTANCE.

TALENT will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

GENIUS will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

EDUCATION will not: the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistance and Detremination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

President Calvin Coolidge

                Patient Representative

Duties and Responsibilities:

Patient Representatives address the concerns and special needs of patients and their families.  They evaluate patient satisfaction, investigate complaints, collect information about patient dissatisfaction, work to solve patient problems, and educate staff.

Average Salary:   $20,000 - $40,000

Educational Requirements:

Students interested in this career should take challenging high school courses in business, science, math, and English. Not all requirements are the same but most employers prefer college graduates with backgrounds in health or social services. 

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Student Success Statement

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

Matt Biondi

Osteopathic Physician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Osteopathic Physicians (D.O) diagnose, treat injuries, and diseases. Their main focus is on musculoskeletal system, holistic medicine, proper nutrition, and environmental factors in maintaining good health.

Average Salary:

$110,000

Education:

Students thinking about joining this medical career should take the most challenging high school courses available in science, math, and English. Then after taking three to four years of college, prospective physicians must attend medical school. Medical school usually includes two years of additional study in both basic and clinical sciences and still requires a yearlong internship at a hospital.

student success statement

The Answers to these questions will determine your success or failure:

1. Can people trust me to do what is right? Yes

2. Am i committed to doing my very best? Yes

3. Do i treat people the way i want to be treated? Yes

If the answer to these questions is YES, There is no way you can fail."

Lou Holtz

 Optometrist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Optometrists treat vision problems. They prescribe eyeglasses, contact lenses, or vision therapy depending on the problem. Some specialize in industrial vision safety, environmental vision care. They may not however write a medical prescription, treat diseases, or perform surgery.

Average Salary:

$78,000

Education requirements:

Students must take the most challenging high school course available to them in math, science, and English. You need at least 2 years of college in a pre-professional to enter an optometry school. Optometry is 4 years in length.   

Student Success Statement 

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew. That intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong."

President John F. Kennedy

Optician
Duties and Responsibilities:

The optician has to measure clients for glasses. They measure client’s bride and eye size, temple length, pupillary distance using measuring devices. They make sure that the lenses are made to specifications, maintain records of prescriptions, and contact insurance provider.  

Salary:

$46,042

Education:

Becoming a Optician requires a high school diploma or an approved GED equivalent, and formal education and training or an apprenticeship.

Student Success Statement

"No student ever attains eminent success by simply doing what is required of him/her, it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."

Charles Kendall Adams, American Historian

Optical Laboratory Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Optical laboratory technician cut, polish, and grind lenses for prescription classes or create prescription contact lenses. In some cases they might even make lenses for products like binoculars, microscopes, and telescopes.

Salary:

$28,590

Education:

If you would like to become an optical lab technician you should take algebra, chemistry, geometry, biology, mechanical drawing, industrial arts, computer skills, English, and health occupations/medical professions. You should take an internship and gain experience in a laboratory. There are no certification requirements.

Ophthalmologist

Duties and responsibilities:

Ophthalmologists are medically trained doctors who treat and help prevent diseases of the eye. They treat patients of all ages from babies to the elderly. The most common conditions are cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes and conditions resulting from ageing. They must examine the patient to make a diagnosis.

Salary: $258,566

Education: To become an Ophthalmologist you must receive a 4 year bachelor’s degree, complete 4 years of medical school, and 3-8 years of internships.

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student success statement

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you Never excuse yourself."

Henry ward Beecher

Ophthalmic Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

 Their duties are to make it easy for the doctor to diagnose someone. They take visual activity measurements, measure pupil size and reactivity, corneal topography, assist with contact lens fitting and patient instruction. They are the ones who see the patient first and after they take all the needed information they give it to the doctor and he will diagnose the patient.

Salary:

$43,701

Education:

To become an ophthalmic technician you must attend an accredited ophthalmic technology training school. You must attend two years of full time courses. You also need 2,000 hours of experience two become certified.

Operating Room Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:
Operating Room Technicians are the people who prepare a operating room for surgery.They make sure all tools and supplies are sterile and ready to use. They take the patient to a recovery room after surgery.They also have to clean up the operating room after the surgery is over.

Salary:
$42,993 each year

Education:
If you want to become a operating room technician you should take health, biology, chemistry, advanced algebra, and trigonometry in high school. Enroll in a surgical technician training program. surgical technician programs are offered at most universities.Then you have to take and pass the surgical technician certification exam to become a certified surgical technologist.

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"kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless."

Mother Teresa

Occupational Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities: Occupational Therapist help people with disabilities to independently carry out everyday task. They work with adults and children of all ages. The patients may have been born with this disability or perhaps the got into an accident, or just because of age. Occupational Therapist create individual treatment programs they may even suggest use of equipment to help with every day task.

Salary: $75,400

Education: To become an Occupational Therapist you must have a master’s degree in Occupational Therapy. They must also be licensed by the state they choose to work in.

Reflection: I would not like to have this job because it requires a lot of school and it’s not something I’m interested in.

Student Success Statement

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

Charles Ketter

Nursing Home Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities: The role of a nursing home administrator is to make sure everything in the nursing home is running how it’s supposed to. The nursing home administrator must have a good way to communicate with people to be successful with their responsibilities.

·         The must make sure everything is going accordingly to the guidelines set by the owner and government.

·         They are the ones who hire and train new employees.

·         They are the ones in charge of contacting insurance companies for their patients.

Salary: $87,000

Education: A Baccalaureate or higher level degree from an accredited educational institution including 15 hours of required coursework in health care.

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Student Success Statement

"Be Cool In School-Live Every Rule."

Mr.Haymore