Student Success Statement

“Kind words can be short

and easy to speak, but

echoes are truly

endless.”

Mother Teresa 

Occupational Therapist

Duties and responsibilities: Occupational Therapists help patients who are mentally, emotionally, or physically disabled adjust to handicaps and regain abilities to preform daily living and self-care skills. They work as part of a team with physicians, counselors, and physical therapists. Occupational therapists design therapy programs and work closely with patients to observe them, help them, and monitor their progress. They frequently design special equipment to aid patients and help with their therapy.

Salary: $26,000 - $45,000

Educational Requirements: Students who wants to become occupational therapists should take the most challenging high school math, and English courses. All states require either a bachelor’s or master’s degree that includes clinical experience and successful completion of a national examination of a national examination to become a certified occupational therapists.

                                        "The best way to predict your future is to create it"
                                                                   Charles Ketterer

Nursing Home Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities: Nursing Home Administrators plan and direct operations of nursing homes and long-term care facilities. They supervise personnel, financial, medical, and nursing administration. Most work in nursing homes, but some work for large corporations that control many facilities. Some are also involved in teaching and research.

Salary: $40,000 - $55,000

Educational Requirements: Students should take challenging high school courses in business, science, math, and English. Requirements differ, but most states require nursing home administrators to have at least a bachelor’s degree in nursing home administration, complete an additional internship program, and pass a comprehensive examination.

                                                            Student Success Statement
                                  "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is
                                                                         a nightmare."
                                                                    Japanese Proverb

Nuclear Medicine Technologist 

Duties and Responsibilities: Nuclear medicine technologists explain these tests to the patients and administer radioactive doses by mouth or injection. Nuclear Medicine Technologists prepare and administer radiopharmaceuticals (radioactive substances) to detect and treat disease. They often position equipment over patients to make images.

Salary: $28,000 - $42,000

Educational Requirements: Nuclear medicine technology training programs vary in length from one to four years. One year programs that lead to certification are offered by hospitals. 

                                                         Student Success Statement
                     "Adversity causes some men to break to break--others to break records"

                                                              William A. Ward

Monitor Surveillance Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: Monitor surveillance technicians observe the electrical activity of heartbeats which is graphically displayed on a series of monitors in cardiac care units of hospitals.

Salary: $26,000 - $41,000

Educational Requirements: Upon graduation from high schools, community colleges, or hospitals. Students waiting to become Monitor Surveillance Technicians should take math, science, and computer technology courses in high school.

Health Sciences Librarian

Duties and Responsibilities: Health Sciences Librarians and Library Technicians collect and organize medical information and help practitioners find the information they need for patient care, education, research, and administration.

Salary: $20,000 - $30,000

Education: Health sciences library technician training varies by employer. Some provide on the job training, but all prefer that students complete library technician programs at community college or technical school.

                                           Student Success Statement

                                   "The best inspiration is not to outdo 

                                        others, but to outdo ourselves"

                                                Anonymous author