Home Health Aide

Tasks

– Provide health care professional services in the homes of the elderly or people with long-term illnesses or disabilities.
– Cook, give customers baths and massages, change bandages as needed, etc.
– Help clients to dress, doing exercises, get in and out of bed, etc.
– Maybe some light laundry, cleaning, or other household chores.
– Grocery store and other shopping for their clients.

Education Requirements

– High school diploma or G.E.D. and short-term on-the-job training.

Personal Care Aide

Responsibilities

– Carry out health-care related duties and responsibilities, for instance prescription medication and monitoring vital signs.
– Administer bedside and personal care.
– Carry out housekeeping duties, such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, etc.
– Instruct and even counsel clients on issues such as household cleanliness, utilities, hygiene, nutrition, etc.
– Transport clients to locations outside the home, for instance to physicians’ health care practices.

Education Requirements

– High school diploma and short-term on-the-job training

Physical Therapist Aide

Responsibilities

– Clean in addition to organizing work area and disinfect apparatus following treatment.
– Instruct, motivate, safeguard and assist patients practicing physical exercises and functional activities, under the direction of medical staff.
– Transport patients to and from therapy areas, using wheelchairs or offering standing help and support.
– Secure patients into or onto therapy related equipment.
– Provide active and passive manual therapeutic exercises, massage therapy, and various types of treatments.
– Assist patients to dress, undress, and putting  on and remove supportive devices, such as braces, splints, and slings.
– Educate patients to make use of orthopedic braces, prostheses and supportive devices.

Education Requirements

– High school diploma and short-term on-the-job training

Dental Assistant

Responsibilities

– Schedule appointments, keep records, receive payments coming from patients, order materials, etc.
– Locate patients’ medical and healthcare records for the dentist’s use.
– Prepare patients for the dentist’s examination.
– Operate the suction hose to keep the patient’s mouth area dry.
– Operate X-ray equipment, process X-rays, make impressions of a patients’ mouth or teeth, sterilize instruments, etc.

Education Requirements

– High school diploma and modest amount of on-the-job training.

Medical Assistant

Responsibilities

– Perform administrative tasks and duties and dealing with standard clinical tasks.
– Manage medical and healthcare documents, bookkeeping, and answering and responding to  phones.
– Examine the height, weight, temperature, and blood pressure of each patient.
– Write down patients’ medical backgrounds and run simple and easy laboratory tests.
– Give injections, apply bandages, as well as take X-rays.

Education Requirements

– High school diploma and reasonable amount of on-the-job training.

Pharmacy Technician

Tasks

– Receive and fill doctor’s prescription requests (from nurses, hospitals, and patients).
– Put together, price, and document prescriptions for the pharmacist to check.
– Put together insurance claim forms.
– Answer phones.
– Maintain inventory for over the counter medication.
– Maintain patient profiles.
– Take care of money/cashier duties.

Education Requirements

– High school diploma, work-related experience, and reasonable amount of on-the-job training.

Construction Laborer

Tasks

– Loading and unload of equipment and other material, put up and take down scaffoldings, clear away work zones, and carry materials to other workers, etc.
– Assist to bricklayers and plasterers by mixing materials and setting up scaffolding.
– Create forms into which concrete is poured, and spread and spade the concrete.
– Perform any and just about every single small to medium size job on the work site.

Education Requirements

– Reasonable amount of on-the-job training, high school diploma is not required.

Source: Jim Walker, visitingnurse.org, welhomehealth.com, coffeyhealth.org, fvtc.edu, careers.stateuniversity.com, osilaborerstraining.org