Crossword POHS Careers part 2

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  1. 5. Individuals who are trained to work in the patient’s home and may perform additional duties such as meal preparation or cleaning.
  2. 7. Individuals who use their artistic and creative talents to produce illustrations, charts, graphs, and diagrams for health textbooks, journals, magazines, and exhibits.
  3. 10. Individuals who acquire additional education to provide care for older patients in environments such as extended care facilities, nursing homes, retirement centers, adult day care facilities, and other similar agencies.
  4. 12. Individuals who provide information to patients and/or their families on genetic diseases or inherited conditions.
  5. 13. Individuals who identify and analyze workplace hazards.
  6. 15. Individuals who organize books, journals, and other print materials to provide health information to other health care professionals; also called health sciences librarians.
  7. 17. Individuals who receive special training such as a 40-hour or more state-approved medication aide course to administer medications to patients or residents in long-term care facilities or patients receiving home health care.
  8. 18. Medical researchers that work with patients and doctors to test and evaluate effectiveness as well as safety of new drugs.
  9. 19. Individuals who use massage, bodywork, and therapeutic touch to provide pain relief, improve circulation, and relieve stress and tension.
  10. 21. Individuals who plan, direct, coordinate, and supervise the delivery of health care in a health care facility.
  11. 22. Process by which a government agency authorizes individuals to work in a given occupation.
  12. 23. Individuals who manage and operate a funeral home; also called morticians or undertakers.
  13. 26. Individuals who work under the supervision of physicians and perform tasks to assist physicians with patient care.
  14. 27. Individuals who perform many of the routine tests that do not require the advanced knowledge held by a medical technologist.
  15. 28. Individuals who perform general administrative duties as well as tasks that are specific to the health care industry.
  16. 29. Individuals who use a computer and word-processing software to enter data that has been dictated on a recorder by physicians or other health care professionals.
  17. 30. Individuals who teach people the behaviors that promote wellness by evaluating, designing, presenting, recommending, and disseminating culturally appropriate health education information and materials.
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  1. 1. Physicians who specialize in diagnosing and treating mental illness.
  2. 2. Also called a venipuncture technician; individual who collects blood and prepares it for tests.
  3. 3. An individual who can perform all of the basic emergency medical technician duties in addition to in-depth patient assessment and care; the highest level of an emergency medical technician.
  4. 4. Individuals who study and review the history, philosophy, theology, medical research, and sociology of health care to make judgments about treatment options and the effectiveness of these options as they relate to ethical standards regarding patient rights, quality of life, privacy, death, and how health care funds and resources should be allocated.
  5. 6. Individuals who assess risks in order to reduce potential safety, financial, and patient problems.
  6. 8. Surgery on the teeth, mouth, and/or jaw and facial bones; also called maxillofacial surgery.
  7. 9. Degree awarded by a college or university after completion of one or more years of prescribed study beyond a bachelor’s degree.
  8. 11. Individuals who investigate crimes by collecting and analyzing physical evidence.
  9. 14. Individuals who are employed in hospitals, extended care facilities, clinics, and other health facilities to record information in records, schedule procedures or tests, answer telephones, order supplies, and work with computers to record or obtain information.
  10. 16. Individuals who study genes and how they are inherited, mutated, and activated, or inactivated.
  11. 20. Individuals who identify diagnoses, procedures, and services shown in a patient’s health care record and assign specific codes to each; also called coding specialists.
  12. 24. Doctors who examine patients, obtain medical histories, order tests, make diagnoses, perform surgery, treat diseases/disorders, and teach preventive health.
  13. 25. Individuals who work under the supervision of registered or licensed practical nurses to provide basic patient care.