EMT

Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) respond to health care crises such as heart attacks, unexpected childbirth, car accidents, and fires.  EMTs use their knowledge and skills to provide basic and advanced life support to seriously ill or injured patients before these patients reach the hospital.  Under the direction of a physician, EMTs are told how to proceed with medical care.  They perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), control bleeding, place splints on broken bones, and check pulse and respiration. EMT-Intermediate has more advanced training that allows administration of intravenous fluids, and use of advanced airway techniques and equipment to assist patients experiencing respiratory emergencies.  EMTs may work for ambulance companies, rescue or aeromedical services, hospital emergency rooms, private industry, educational institutions and government agencies.

Dental Assisting

Dental Assistants perform many tasks requiring both interpersonal and technical skills.  In additional to assisting the dentist during a variety of procedures, dental assistants may take and develop dental x-rays, sterilize instruments and equipment, and take impressions of patients' teeth.  Dental assistants may work in private dental offices, hospitals, or community health agencies along with clinics, dental product sales representatives, dental and dental hygiene schools, public schools and public health departments.

Medical Billing and Coding

A Medical Coder uses a classification system to assign code numbers and letters to each symptom, diagnosis, disease, procedure, and operation that appears in the patient's chart.  These codes are used for insurance reimbursement, research, health planning analysis, and to make clinical decisions.  Medical coders work in hospitals, HMOs, insurance companies, physicians' offices or are self-employed.

Patient Care Technician

Patient Care Technicians work with doctors, nurses and other medical staff to provide basic patient care which includes observing, recording, and reporting vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, respiration rates, and height and weight; collecting and testing specimens, and reporting and recording patient's conditions and treatments.  They also assist patients with their mobility, bathing, dressing, grooming and personal hygiene.  Patient Care Technicians work in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, and in nursing/assisted living facilities.

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