Thursday, November 15, 2012

Health Career Choices

Have I told you how much I love having you in this class?!? It is awesome having such a great group of students to start a new adventure with. No matter how organized (or unorganized) I am, you are fantastic and patient...perfect qualities for future health care workers!

Today you will be investigating a few health care careers! Remember...you will get a lot out of assignments like this if you put the effort in to RESEARCH and LEARN! This is about YOUR future!

1. You will choose TWO  health care careers (you can do a third one for a little extra credit Thanksgiving gift!) of interest to you and research using a variety of websites to learn about the job description, education, wages, working environment, and job outlook of each. After reflecting on what you have learned about each career, you will write a reflection paragraph describing whether or not this career is a match for you. Please give this portion of the assignment a great deal of thought and compose a detailed, reflective paragraph of no less than 6 sentences.

2. To complete the assignment, open the template below and save it as a file to your computer. Provide information in complete sentences, double space between topics, and start each of the three careers on a new page. When finished you will save it with the following title (change my name to your name and the date should be correct
) and email it to me :)
       2012-11-27-Hammang-CareerResearchTemplate


Click Here For Career Research Template

Suggested websites:
Occupational Outlook Handbook (click on healthcare in the left side bar)
ExploreHealthCareers.org (pretty user friendly; note tabs at top on career pages)
WI Health Careers Information Center (amazing site...looks at 80 of the most common careers)American Medical Association (good info but limited number of careers)

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