Chapter 7: Health Career Planning Flashcards
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Source of the Occupational Outlook Handbook that provides information about a broad range of occupations with details about educational requirements, projected need, places of employment, and salaries.
Certification
The process or action of providing an individual with an official document attesting to their status or level of achievement.
Community and Social Service Occupations
Professionals who work with individuals to assist them in obtaining needed care or services.
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations
Professionals who work directly with patients or with patient laboratory samples to identify health status.
Licensure
The granting of a license by official or legal authority to perform medical acts and procedures not permitted by persons without such a license.
Loan Repayment Program (LRP)
The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) offer primary care medical, dental, and mental and behavioral healthcare providers the opportunity to have their student loans repaid while earning a competitive salary, in exchange for providing health care in urban, rural, or tribal communities with limited access to health care.
Maldistribution of health personnel
A situation in which new health workers find it difficult to obtain jobs in their community, while other communities cannot find enough workers to fill the same type of healthcare jobs.
National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
An organization that negotiates agreements with primary care medical, dental, and mental health professionals to work in underserved areas with limited healthcare access in exchange for college loan repayments and scholarships.
Professional certification
Granted by health professionals’ national organizations to ensure health professionals meet established levels of competency.
Professional registration
The listing of certified health professionals on an official roster kept by a state agency or health professionals’ organizations; some health professionals’ organizations use the term registration interchangeably with certification.
State Loan Repayment Program
Available in 30 state for students in a variety of healthcare training programs.
Student to Service Loan Repayment Program
For students in the last year of school training as a physician, dentist, nurse practitioner, or certified nurse-midwife. Loan repayment is in exchange for serving three years in a designated health professional shortage area.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
The U.S. government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
What are desirable traits for HC workers?
A strong desire to help others, a genuine concern for the welfare of patients and clients, and the patients and emotional maturity to deal with people of diverse backgrounds in stressful situations.
