Why should you get a Healthcare Support Occupation degree?
Healthcare Support Occupation careers are always in high demand!
Below is a general selection of common healthcare support occupations that you will find in the majority of providers’ offices.
Nursing aides
Provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. Perform duties such as feed, bathe, dress, groom or move patients, or change linens.
Occupational therapist aides
These people mostly work with elderly or severely injured patients who need extra help in preparing for treatment.
Physical therapist assistants
These are similar duties to occupational therapist aides, but many patients can be people in normal health with a special area of focus on recovery, such as broken bones or muscle tears.
Massage therapists
Massage therapy is used in physical rehabilitation programs and has proven beneficial in a host of chronic conditions such as arthritis, lower back pain, fatigue, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression and smoking cessation.
Medical assistants
Medical assistants help other healthcare professionals with the clinical or clerical duties of general patient care, and usually perform their work on teams.
Medical billers and coders
Medical billing and coding technicians assemble patients’ health information and make sure their initial medical charts are complete. They regularly communicate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to clarify or to obtain additional information.
Emergency medical technicians (EMT)
EMTs have to be very cool under pressure, but they also have to move quickly and make snap decisions based, many times, on incomplete information. They usually work in disaster relief, ambulances, emergency rooms, trauma clinics and more.