Career Hunt
By:Valerie Gutierrez
English 2nd/Mr. Knowland

Registered Nurse

Facts

• Registered nurses (RNs), regardless of specialty or work setting, perform basic duties that include treating patients, educating patients and the public about various medical conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients’ family members.
• The major educational paths to registered nursing are a bachelor’s degree, an associate degree, and a diploma from an approved nursing program.
• Median weekly earnings of RNs are far above the $671 average for all occupations. Women employed as RNs in 2006 had median weekly earnings $971; for men, the figure was $1,074.
• Job opportunities in most specialties and employment settings are expected to be excellent, with some employers reporting difficulty in attracting and retaining enough RNs.
• Between 2004 and 2014, RNs are projected to create the second largest number of new jobs among all occupations—703,000. Retail salespersons will create the largest--736,000 jobs.

Career Expectations

• Nurses are paid according to their education and experience.
• Very often nurses work in a team of health-care professionals, sometimes leading that team. They manage and co-ordinate patient care or programs, often acting as an inter-professional liaison. A goal of all nursing should be collaboration and leadership.
• Multitasking. Because nurses are constantly exposed to competing priorities it is vital that they tend to their physical and emotional well-being. This is especially true when shift work is involved.
• Rich rewards. Day in day out, nurses work hard to improve the health of individuals and communities, providing many opportunities to have a positive and profound impact on those whose lives they touch.

Traditions

• The Traditional Registered Nurse Track is a four-semester track that combines asynchronous (anytime) recorded online lectures with face-to-face lectures, skills laboratory, and clinical practice.

Marriage and Family Therapist

Facts

• Marriage and family therapists treat and help clients work through emotional and mental problems using family systems theory, techniques and principles.
• Most marriage and family therapists typically need a masters degree to become licensed as a counselor, however education and training requirements vary by state.
• They may face the challenge of clients who have a variety of issues including mental health disorders, trauma, addiction and disability.
• The work environment of marriage and family therapists is typically in a community health organization, public or private practice or day treatment programs.
• Some marriage and family therapists go on to become researchers, teachers, advanced clinicians or supervisor

Career Expectations

• The main goal of family therapist is to undercover the issues that a couple or family is having and to help them be able to communicate their feelings in a positive way to better their relationships.
• The educational requirements include that a person must have a master’s degree or doctoral degree in marriage and family therapy.
• The graduate degree must come from a college or university that has been approved by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. I

Traditions

• Three options are available for those interested in becoming a marriage and family therapist: master's degree (2-3 years), doctoral program (3-5 years), or post-graduate clinical training programs (3-4 years). Historically, marriage and family therapists have come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds including psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing, pastoral counseling and education.

Physical Therapist

Facts

• Physical therapy is used with patients who have difficulty in moving around and perform everyday activities due to some injury or surgery.
• Physical therapy can help with conditions like vertigo, rheumatoid arthritis, spinal stenosis, Parkinson's disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), temporomandibular condition and multiple sclerosis.
• Physical therapists’ job is to take care of the patient’s range of motion, physical mobility like walking around, climbing stairs, muscular strength, and endurance. They can recommend the proper equipment such as walker, wheel chair etc. according to the need of patients and help with the right use of it.
• Physical therapy consists of an exercise that is expressly designed for particular injury or health condition. The exercise includes stretching of the muscles of back, abdomen and trunk, lifting weights, water aerobics, jogging, walking and several other physical activities.
• Types of physical therapists:Mechanical manipulation, cold therapy,and heat therapy.

Career Expetations

• Physical therapists provide care for people in a variety of settings, including hospitals, private practices, outpatient clinics, home health agencies, schools, sports and fitness facilities, work settings, and nursing homes. State licensure is required in each state in which a physical therapist practices.
• PTs examine each individual and develop a plan using treatment techniques to promote the ability to move, reduce pain, restore function, and prevent disability.
• As essential participants in the health care delivery system, physical therapists assume leadership roles in rehabilitation; in prevention, health maintenance, and programs that promote health, wellness, and fitness; and in professional and community organizations. Physical therapists also play important roles both in developing standards for physical therapist practice and in developing health care policy to ensure availability, accessibility, and optimal delivery of health care services. Physical therapy is covered by federal, state, and private insurance plans.

Traditions

• a variety of traditional and non traditional manual physical therapies are used to adress limitations found within the body structure to promote optimal body function and health.