Duties and responsibilities:

• Record patients’ medical histories and symptoms
• Administer patients’ medicines and treatments
• Set up plans for patients’ care or contribute to existing plans
• Observe patients and record the observations
• Consult and collaborate with doctors and other healthcare professionals
• Operate and monitor medical equipment
• Help perform diagnostic tests and analyze the results
• Teach patients and their families how to manage illnesses or injuries
• Explain what to do at home after treatment

Salary:

• $32.45 per hour

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree
• ADN
• Diploma
• BSN programs
• Take courses in anatomy, physiology, chemistry etc.

Demand for this profession:

• Projected to grow 16% from 2014-2024

Reflection: Would you like to be one? Why? Why Not?

I would like to be one because all they do is explain things and help doctors.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Evaluate interventions for effectiveness
• Plan and implement interventions to prevent harm to a patient
• Help patients learn social skills needed to become or remain independent
• Record and analyze a patient’s progress
• Assess patients’ needs through observations, medical records, tests, and discussions with other healthcare professionals, patients’ families, and patients
• Create treatment plans and programs that meet patients’ needs and interests

Salary:

• $22.06 per hour

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Demand for this profession:

• Estimated to grow 12% from 2014 to 2024, faster than the average for all occupations

Reflection:

I would like to be a Recreation Therapist because it would be nice to help people do some fun activities that they like.

“ My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don’t make them because you are cheap; you don’t make them because they’re popular; you make them because they are right.”

-Theodore Hesburgh

(Former president of Notre Dame)

Reflection:

I believe that this quote is stating that decision are best made when it’s for a right purpose. Making decisions involve choosing one thing or the other. Often times there’s always a wrong and a right making the right decision will take you higher in life.