Becoming a Health Care Professional

Description

BECOMING A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL is the ideal text for every student who is interested in exploring, planning, and preparing for a career in health care. Its information and supplemental resources apply to all health occupations and settings, including hospitals, outpatient clinics, physician offices, dental practices, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and biotechnology research and development labs. Comprehensive, informative, inspiring, and timely, it presents real-world insights emphasizing both the challenges and rewards of a health career. It helps future workers understand what it takes to develop and maintain the reputation of a health care professional. Content stresses the importance of a professional image, a strong work ethic, good character, teamwork, cultural competence, and effective communication with coworkers, patients, and physicians. Readers will find expert, up-to-date insights into identifying the right health occupation, legal and ethical responsibilities, clinical internships, credentialing requirements, personal wellness, workplace safety, and much more.

1. Introduction to Health Careers

2. Working in Health Care

3. Communication in Health Care

4. The Health Care Industry

5. Finding the Right Occupation for You

6. Working with Patients

7. Your Legal and Ethical Responsibilities

8. Your Clinical Internship

9. Health, Wellness, and Safety

10. Employment, Leadership, and Professional Development

Closing Thoughts

Glossary

Index

For all high school students considering a career in healthcare.

 

BECOMING A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL is the ideal text for every student who is interested in exploring, planning, and preparing for a career in health care. Its information and supplemental resources apply to all health occupations and settings, including hospitals, outpatient clinics, physician offices, dental practices, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and biotechnology research and development labs. Comprehensive, informative, inspiring, and timely, it presents real-world insights emphasizing both the challenges and rewards of a health career. It helps future workers understand what it takes to develop and maintain the reputation of a health care professional. Content stresses the importance of a professional image, a strong work ethic, good character, teamwork, cultural competence, and effective communication with coworkers, patients, and physicians. Readers will find expert, up-to-date insights into identifying the right health occupation, legal and ethical responsibilities, clinical internships, credentialing requirements, personal wellness, workplace safety, and much more.

For all high school students considering a career in healthcare.

 

BECOMING A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL is the ideal text for every student who is interested in exploring, planning, and preparing for a career in health care. Its information and supplemental resources apply to all health occupations and settings, including hospitals, outpatient clinics, physician offices, dental practices, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and biotechnology research and development labs. Comprehensive, informative, inspiring, and timely, it presents real-world insights emphasizing both the challenges and rewards of a health career. It helps future workers understand what it takes to develop and maintain the reputation of a health care professional. Content stresses the importance of a professional image, a strong work ethic, good character, teamwork, cultural competence, and effective communication with coworkers, patients, and physicians. Readers will find expert, up-to-date insights into identifying the right health occupation, legal and ethical responsibilities, clinical internships, credentialing requirements, personal wellness, workplace safety, and much more.

 

Hallmark Features

 

Covers the “people skills” and the professional traits and behaviors that students need to succeed in health care. Includes professional appearance and personal values, compliance with policies and procedures, and the importance of focusing on quality of care, patient safety, and patient satisfaction.

 

Offers specific information for choosing and pursuing the right health career. Guides students through self-discovery to identify their individual interests, skills, and abilities. Helps students research labor trends and projections and choose, plan, and prepare for the health occupation that best matches their individual needs. Discusses the importance of developing and achieving realistic career goals.

 

Helps students understand how the information in this course connects with what they are learning in other courses. Provides Language Arts, Math, and Science Links that show how health care information and concepts link to the students’ core curricula.

 

Keeps high school students focused on reality. Reality Checks at the end of each section provide direct, “get real” messages to let students know what will be expected of them in the health care workplace.

 

Opens each chapter by preparing students to learn. Engages students with chapter-opening quotes, Getting Started bell-ringer activities, section learning objectives, and essential background information.

 

Offers hands-on applications throughout. Presents Learn by Doing/Student Activity Guide worksheets for each section to help students review, reinforce, expand, and apply their learning. Ends each chapter with review questions and additional activities.

 

Builds students’ critical thinking skills. Includes What If? Scenarios in each chapter, designed to stimulate the students’ critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills as related to real-life workplace situations.

 

Helps students create career portfolios. Presents a Portfolio Connection feature in each chapter, guiding students in creating career portfolios and expanding the contents both during and after the course.

 

Offers multiple opportunities to expand knowledge and skills. Presents Apply It, Build Your Skills, The More You Know, Consider This, and Recent Developments features designed to increase learning and deepen understanding.

 

Encourages the community service that can help students gain a foothold in the field. Recommends opportunities in each chapter for students to apply and expand their learning through interactions with local community organizations.

 

Helps students learn the terminology of health care. Includes a Glossary defining more than 625 key terms. Boldfaced Key Terms appear throughout each chapter, with definitions and pronunciations easily accessed in the adjacent margins.

 

Promotes interactive learning by providing web-based activities and linking to additional web resources. Media Connection links at the end of each chapter point students to valuable supplemental learning resources found on the companion website.