Military Medical Careers

Military Medical Careers

Duties and Responsibilities:

 The United States military offers many medical jobs. It is one of the many government-employed options for healthcare professionals. Each different branch of the military, which include the army, navy, air force, and marines, have similar needs and standards for healthcare professionals. One must be prepared to deal with and witness physical atrocities in the military due to bombings or other such weapon usage that can cause mutilation and disfiguration.

Salary: $30,000-$100,000

Education: Once you are granted into the military, your training and education are paid for. You will not have to pay out of pocket for your medical degree, nursing degree, or other related healthcare training. Once your service requirements are met, you are free and clear of any debt for your medical training.

Medical Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical assistants complete clinical and administrative tasks and jobs. They take patient history and measure vital signs, help the physician with patient examinations, give patient injections as directed by the physician, schedule patient appointments, and prepare blood for laboratory tests. Assistants need to learn the EHR software that their office uses. They need to keep information confidential and only discuss it with other medical personnel. Medical assistants have different duties depending on their medical field.

Salary:

$28,860 per year

$13.87 per hour

Education:

Nor formal education training is required but most have at least a high school diploma. Biology, chemistry and anatomy should be taken as a high school student if interested. Programs are available from community colleges, vocational schools, technical schools, or universities and take about 1 year to complete. These programs usually lead to a certificate or diploma. Some community and junior colleges offer 2-year programs that lead to an associate’s degree. They have on-the-job training and although no certificate is needed most employers prefer those that do.

I think I would like to be a medical assistant because I want to help people and assist their needs.

Licensed Practical Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities:
Licensed practical nurses have basic nursing training and typically monitor patients’ health, by checking their blood pressure, administer basic nursing care like including changing bandages and inserting catheters. They provide for the basic comfort of patients, such as helping them bathe or dress, discuss health care with patients and listen to their concerns. They report patients’ status to registered nurses and doctors, and keep records on their patients.
Average Salary:
$40,380 per year
$19.42 per hour
Education:
LPNs must take a one year accredited program. These programs are commonly in technical schools, community colleges and maybe  in high schools and hospitals as well. Practical nursing programs combine nursing, biology, and pharmacology, with supervised clinical experience. These programs give certificates in practical nursing.
I think I would like to be one because it seems like I could have more communication with the patients and will be able to help them.

Health Information Specialist

Health information specialists ensure the quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security of health information and medical records both in paper form and electronically. Insurance reimbursement purposes, databases and registries,  and general medical history storage are a few of the reasons this job is needed in the medical industry. All technicians document patients' health information, including the medical history, symptoms, examination and test results, treatments, and other information about healthcare provider services.

Their duties include:

·         Review patient records for timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of health data

·         Organize and maintain data for clinical databases and registries

·         Electronically record data for collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and reporting

·         Protect patients’ health information for confidentiality, authorized access for treatment, and data security

The increasing usage of electronics and technology brings a demand for familiarity with computers in this area and they need to adapt to various classification systems.

Salary: $32,350 per year

Education:

 Associate degree programs in health information technology typically include courses in medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, health data requirements and standards, classification and coding systems, healthcare reimbursement methods, healthcare statistics, and computer systems. taking high school courses in health, computer science, math, and biology increases chances of being admitted into health tech programs.

I think I would like to work in this field because it seems to pay well and isn’t heavy-duty work but is still very important. 

Health Information Specialist

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Health Information Specialists obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, finance, and insurance data. They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

There are a variety of job specialties within this field including Registered Record Administrators, Accredited Record Technicians, and Certified Coding Specialists. Administrators coordinate the various information management responsibilities and supervise record technicians and coding specialists. Record technicians ensure medical records are accurate, coordinate reimbursement, and maintain disease registries for research. Coding specialists assign and post correct diagnosis and procedure codes to records and report codes to insurance companies.

Health information specialists work in hospitals, clinics, insurance companies, physician offices, and many other medical settings.

Average Salary:

$20,000-$25,000 (Coding Specialists)

$23,000-$30,000 (Record Technicians)

$30,000-$40,000 (Record Administrators) ]

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