Health Career Day Workshops

University of Puget Sound

Animal Health Careers

Animal care is the primary focus for the dedicated veterinary team. Every day veterinarians, vet interns, licensed veterinary technicians and techs in training, zoo keepers and other animal care staff work hard to ensure that animals are in good health.

Careers in Public Health

Public Health professionals assure conditions in which people can be healthy. They address the physical, mental and environmental health concerns of communities and populations at risk for disease and injury. This workshop will provide information on opportunities within the field of public health.

Careers in Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine is the field of medicine concerned with injuries sustained in athletic endeavors, including their prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The sports medicine team is comprised of many disciplines including, for example, athletic training, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and nutrition.

Chiropractor

Chiropractors, also known as Doctors of Chiropractic or Chiropractic Physicians, diagnose and treat patients whose health problems are associated with the body’s muscular, nervous, and skeletal systems, especially the spine. Learn the education steps needed to enter the field of chiropractic.

College Financial Aid Process

Not sure how you will pay for college? This workshop will provide information on navigating the financial aid application process.

Dental Hygienist

Dental hygienists are licensed professionals who teach patients how to practice good oral hygiene, and provide other preventive dental care. They examine patients’ teeth and gums, recording the presence of diseases or abnormalities.

Dentistry

Dentists diagnose and treat problems with teeth and tissues in the mouth, along with giving advice and administering care to help prevent future problems. Explore dentistry as a career and how to prepare to follow this career path.

Emergency Medical Technician/Paramedic

EMTs and paramedics are typically dispatched by a 911 operator to the scene, where they often work with police and fire fighters. Following medical protocols and guidelines, they provide appropriate emergency care and transportation.

Emergency Room Nursing

Emergency Room nurses provide care for patients in the critical or emergency phase of an illness or trauma, and must be able to recognize life-threatening problems and rapidly arrange necessary care.

Exhibit Hall

Colleges, employers and other organizations will be on hand to answer your questions and share information.

Forensic Nursing

Not exactly like “CSI”...A forensic nurse has specialized training in evidence collection, criminal procedures, legal testimony expertise, and more. This workshop will focus of the reality of forensic nursing.

Health Educator—Educating Your Patients

Health educators promote wellness and healthy lifestyles, covering a wide range of topics. These workers teach individuals about behaviors that encourage healthy living and how to manage conditions they have, like diabetes.

Labor and Delivery Nursing

Labor and delivery nurses care for women who are laboring, having complications of pregnancy or having recently delivered. They assist in the delivery room and provide immediate follow-up care. In order to become a labor and delivery nurse, you will need a nursing degree, as well as continuing education in this specialized field.

Laboratory Science

Clinical laboratory scientists participate in patient care by performing laboratory procedures that assist in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The analyses performed by clinical laboratory scientists include chemistry, microbiology, hematology, immunology, toxicology, blood banking, and molecular procedures.

Laboratory Technician/ Medical Technologist

Clinical laboratory testing plays a crucial role in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Learn what a Laboratory Tech does and why it is a growing field in Healthcare.

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Making a Career Choice

Not sure if you want to go into health care or what qualities are needed to be successful in the medical field? This session touches on making meaningful career choices in health care.

Massage Therapy

Massage therapy is a means of treating painful ailments, decompressing tired and overworked muscles, reducing stress, rehabilitating sports injuries, and promoting general health. This is done by manipulating the soft tissue muscles of the body in order to improve circulation and remove waste products from the muscles.

Medical Social Work

Medical social workers typically work in a hospital, skilled nursing facility or hospice, have a graduate degree in the field and work with patients and their families in need of psychosocial help.

Military Nursing

Military nurses provide medical care for fellow soldiers in all branches of the US military. This workshop will provide on overview of military nursing and actual stories of nursing in Iraq.

Navigating College Applications

This session will provide tips on creating a great college application. Admissions representatives from a community/technical college and from a university will discuss how to help your application stand out.

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses care for newborn babies who are delivered pre-term (neonates) or at-term newborns who experience complications at the time of birth.

Nuclear Medical Technologist

Diagnostic imaging embraces several procedures that aid in diagnosing ailments, the most familiar being the x-ray. Another increasingly common diagnostic imaging method, called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), uses giant magnets and radio waves, rather than radiation, to create an image.

Nurse Midwife

Learn about the career of a nurse midwife. Investigate the joys of working with women during pregnancy, labor and delivery as well as women’s health.

Nurse Practioner

Nurse Practioners have advanced education (a Master’s degree and beyond) and training. They diagnose illness and prescribe interventions through interview and physical exam, order diagnostic testing, and prescribe medications.

Nursing Journey—A Career Ladder

Explore the Nursing Career Ladder from CNA to Masters Degree Nurse. Hear first-hand from a nurse who followed the career ladder from CNA, to LPN, to ADN to BSN to Masters Degree.

Nutritionist/Dietician

Nutritionists and Dietitians plan food and nutrition programs and supervise the preparation and serving of meals. Dietitians manage food service systems for institutions such as hospitals and schools, promote sound eating habits through education, and conduct research.

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is a health and rehabilitation profession that helps people achieve independence in their lives despit disabilities. Occupational Therapists work with all age groups and in many differnet settings from schools to hospitals to businesses.

Optometry

Optometrists are health care providers for the eye and visual system. They examine, diagnose, and can treat the majority of primary ocular diseases, non-surgical injuries, and disorders of the eyes and visual system.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

A sick or hurt child is every parent’s nightmare. Fortunately, many hospitals offer comprehensive pediatric emergency medicine services. A pediatric emergency department blends the art and science of medicine: Children are not just little adults. They have very specific needs and one approach doesn’t always work. That’s where the art of medicine emerges. Come hear about the exciting and rewarding field of pediatric emergency medicine.

Pediatrician

Pediatrics is a highly flexible specialty offering an extraordinary number of career options. Pediatricians focus on the physical, emotional, and social health of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults from birth to 21 years. Hear a pediatrician talk about his work and how he became a doctor.

Pharmacist—A Day in the Life Of

Do you enjoy mathematics and natural sciences, such as chemistry, biology, and physics? Put these interests to work as a pharmacist! Pharmacists distribute prescription drugs to individuals, and advise health practitioners on the selection, dosages, interactions, and side effects of medications.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapists are specialists in evaluating and treating disorders of the human body primarily by physical means. They are responsible for examining the patient or client; evaluating the results; determining goals; and planning, implementing and evaluating a physical therapy program.

Polysomnography—Sleep Study

Polysomnographers perform sleep studies to help physician's diagnosis and treat sleep disorders. They do this by recording data from tests that measure eye movement and brain waves. They observe patients during the sleep study for breathing patterns and body movement.

Psychology Careers

Psychology is a tremendously varied field. Many psychologists work as health care providers. They assess behavioral and mental function and well-being, as well as diagnose and treat people

Radiologic Technologist and Technician

Radiologic Technologists and Technicians take x rays and administer non-radioactive materials into patients’ bloodstreams for diagnostic purposes. Some specialize in diagnostic imaging technologies, such as computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Respiratory Therapy

Respiratory Therapists evaluate, treat, and care for patients with breathing or other cardiopulmonary disorders. They evaluate and treat all types of patients, ranging from premature infants whose lungs are not fully developed to elderly people whose lungs are diseased.

Specialty and Rehabilitative Care

After an accident, stroke, chronic illness or hospital stay, continuing health care is often required. Long-term care facilites provide a wide array of health services, including skilled Nursing, Social Workers, Dieticians, Activities; and rehabilitative services such as Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, IV therapy and Diagnostics. A very satisfying health career can be found helping people as they overcome physical and cognitive challenges in a residential setting.

Speech Language Pathology

Speech-language pathologists, sometimes called speech therapists, assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing, fluency, and other related disorders. This workshop will address the levels of education required for this career.

Surgical/Operating Room Nursing

Nurses in this field provide care and support to patients before, during, and after surgery. They maintain a sterile environment in the operating room, monitor the patient during surgery, and coordinate care throughout the process.

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