- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who induces hypnotic state in client to increase motivation or alter behavior patterns. Responsibilities include:
* Consults with client to determine nature of problem.
* Prepares client to enter hypnotic state by explaining how hypnosis works and what client will experience.
* Tests subject to determine degree of physical and emotional suggestibility.
* Induces hypnotic state in client, using individualized methods and techniques of hypnosis based on interpretation of test results and analysis of client's problem.
* May train client in self-hypnosis conditioning.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts health program in industrial plant or governmental organization to recognize, eliminate, and control occupational health hazards and diseases. Responsibilities include:
* Collects samples of dust, gases, vapors, and other potentially toxic materials for analysis.
* Investigates adequacy of ventilation, exhaust equipment, lighting, and other conditions which may affect employee health, comfort, or efficiency.
* Conducts evaluations of exposure to ionizing and nonionizing radiation and to noise, and recommends measures to ensure maximum employee protection.
* Collaborates with industrial-health engineer and physician, occupational to institute control and remedial measures for hazardous and potentially hazardous conditions and equipment.
* Prepares reports including observations, analysis of contaminants, and recommendations for control and correction of hazards.
* Participates in educational meetings to instruct employees in matters pertaining to occupational health and prevention of accidents.
* May specialize in particular area, such as collection and analysis of samples.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and directs statewide program of public health education and promotes establishment of local health services. Responsibilities include:
* Directs workers engaged in preparation and distribution of health information materials, such as brochures, films, weight charts, and first-aid kits.
* Promotes establishment or expansion of local health services and provides technical assistance to individuals and groups conducting (health conferences, workshops, and training courses.
* Answers health information requests received by department or reviews correspondence prepared by others.
* Coordinates special health education campaigns during epidemics, rabies outbreaks, instances of food poisoning, and similar emergencies.
* May direct health education activities in public schools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, develops, and administers health information system for health care facility consistent with standards of accrediting and regulatory agencies and requirements of health care system. Responsibilities include:
* Develops and implements policies and procedures for documenting, storing, and retrieving information, and for processing medical-legal documents, insurance data, and correspondence requests, in conformance with federal, state, and local statutes.
* Supervises staff, directly or through subordinates, in preparing and analyzing medical documents.
* Participates in development and design of computer software for computerized health information system.
* Coordinates medical care evaluation with medical staff and develops criteria and methods for such evaluation.
* Develops in-service educational materials and conducts instructional programs for health care personnel.
* Analyzes patient data for reimbursement, facility planning, quality of patient care, risk management, utilization management, and research.
* May manage medical records department and be known as Director, Medical Records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes patient records to determine legitimacy of admission, treatment, and length of stay in health-care facility to comply with government and insurance company reimbursement policies. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes insurance, governmental, and accrediting agency standards to determine criteria concerning admissions, treatment, and length of stay of patients.
* Reviews application for patient admission and approves admission or refers case to facility utilization review committee for review and course of action when case fails to meet admission standards.
* Compares inpatient medical records to established criteria and confers with medical and nursing personnel and other professional staff to determine legitimacy of treatment and length of stay.
* Abstracts data from records and maintains statistics.
* Determines patient review dates according to established diagnostic criteria.
* May assist review committee in planning and holding federally mandated quality assurance reviews.
* May supervise and coordinate activities of utilization review staff.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers specific therapeutic treatment of symptoms and disorders amenable to acupuncture procedures, as specifically indicated by supervising physician. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews patient's medical history, physical findings, and diagnosis made by physician to ascertain symptoms or disorder to be treated.
* Selects needles of various lengths, according to location of insertion.
* Inserts needles at locations of body known to be efficacious to certain disorders, utilizing knowledge of acupuncture points and their functions.
* Leaves needles in patient for specific length of time, according to symptom or disorder treated, and removes needles.
* Burns bark of mugwort tree in small strainer to administer moxibustion treatment.
* Covers insertion area with cloth and rubs strainer over cloth to impart heat and assist in relieving patient's symptoms.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines clients with pain, stress, or tension, determines acupressure techniques required to relieve problems, and demonstrates techniques to client, according to knowledge of acupressure methods and techniques. Directs client to lie on couch and positions client's arms and legs in relaxed position to facilitate examination and demonstration techniques. Questions clients, examines client's muscular system visually, and feels tissue around muscles, nerves, and blood vessels to locate knots and other blockages which indicate excessive accumulations of blood, fluids, and other substances in tissue. Determines cause of accumulations and acupressure techniques needed to increase circulation, according to knowledge of Asian acupuncture and pressure points and Western medical trigger points, bodywork techniques, such as Jin Shin, Do-In, Shiatsu, Swedish, and Esalen, and experience. Feels tissue around muscles, nerves, and blood vessels to locate points and applies specified pressure at specified pressure points or muscles, using thumbs, fingers, palms, or elbows, to redirect accumulated body fluids into normal channels, according to acupressure knowledge, techniques, and experience. Discusses findings with client and explains diet and methods to prevent recurrence of problem. May be known according to specific method or combination of methods used, such as Gia Ahp, Jin Shin, Do-In, or Shiatsu.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs variety of animal health care duties to assist veterinarian in settings such as veterinarians' clinics, zoos, research laboratories, kennels, and commercial facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares treatment room for examination of animals, and holds or restrains animals during examination, treatment, or inoculation.
* Administers injections, performs venipunctures, applies wound dressings, cleans teeth, and takes vital signs of animal, under supervision of veterinarian.
* Prepares patient, medications, and equipment for surgery, and hands instruments and materials to veterinarian during surgical procedures.
* Performs routine laboratory tests, cares for and feeds laboratory animals, and assists professional personnel with research projects in commercial, public health, or research laboratories.
* Inspects products or carcasses when employed in food processing plants to ensure compliance with health standards.
* May assist veterinarian to artificially inseminate animals.
* May bathe and groom small animals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists dentist during examination and treatment of patients. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares patient, sterilizes and disinfects instruments, sets up instrument trays, prepares materials, and assists dentist during dental procedures.
* Takes and records medical and dental histories and vital signs of patient.
* Exposes dental diagnostic x rays.
* Makes preliminary impressions for study casts and occlusal registrations for mounting study casts.
* Pours, trims, and polishes study casts, fabricates custom impression trays from preliminary impressions, cleans and polishes removable appliances, and fabricates temporary restorations.
* Assists dentist in management of medical and dental emergencies.
* Instructs patients in oral hygiene and plaque control programs.
* Provides postoperative instructions prescribed by dentist.
* Records treatment information in patient records.
* Schedules appointments, prepares bills and receives payment for dental services, completes insurance forms, and maintains clerical records, manually or using computer.
* May clean teeth, using dental instruments.
* May apply protective coating of fluoride to teeth.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties under direction of physician to assist in examination and treatment of patients. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews patients, measures vital signs, such as pulse rate, temperature, blood pressure, weight, and height, and records information on patients' charts.
* Prepares treatment rooms for examination of patients.
* Drapes patients with covering and positions instruments and equipment.
* Hands instruments and materials to doctor as directed.
* Cleans and sterilizes instruments.
* Inventories and orders medical supplies and materials.
* Operates x ray, electrocardiograph (EKG), and other equipment to administer routine diagnostic test or calls medical facility or department to schedule patients for tests.
* Gives injections or treatments, and performs routine laboratory tests.
* Schedules appointments, receives money for bills, keeps x ray and other medical records, performs secretarial tasks, and completes insurance forms.
* May key data into computer to maintain office and patient records.
* May keep billing records, enter financial transactions into bookkeeping ledgers, and compute and mail monthly statements to patients.
Industry:Professional careers
