Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: What Are the Careers and What Do The Careers Involve?
Students will explore the types of jobs available in the diagnostic services pathway of a health science career cluster in order to encourage students to pursue one of these careers.
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Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: People Skills in the Healthcare Setting
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate effective communication and people skills.
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Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Observing for Detecting and Diagnosing "What are Signs and Symptoms and Why Do They Matter?"
This topic helps students understand the difference between signs and symptoms so that they will be able to record information from patient interviews for proper medical diagnoses.
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Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Diagnostic Questioning OLD CARTS AND SOAP Notes
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate effective communication and questioning skills related to medical diagnoses.
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Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Active Listening and Checking for Understanding
Students will practice active listening and checking for understanding skills in order to better communicate with the people they might interact with in health care settings.
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Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Vocabulary for Interpreting Charts and Print Outs
Students must develop the diagnostic skill of reading healthcare print outs and charts to work in health care fields.
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Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Analyzing the Evidence and Writing an Extended Response
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate knowledge of health and wellness issues such as smoking and cancer screenings.
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Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Differentiating Between Drug Use, Misuse, and Abuse
To become successful health care workers, students must develop their diagnostic skills and ability to analyze workplace documents such as prescription labels and pill charts.