Career Planing for upcoming SHS Student

2. Opening
Prayer

3. PLAN?
FUTURE!

4. PLANNING FOR
HEALTH CAREER

5. Objectives:
 discuss the components and steps in making a
personal health career plan;
 prepare a personal health career following the
prescribed components and steps,
 explore the various health career paths that select a
particular health career pathway based on personal
competence and interest,
 participate in a health career orientation program.

6. What is a career?
This is an occupation or
profession that requires
special training

7. Health careers are designed to
familiarize students.
■medical profession
■allied health services
A term used to describe
the broad range of
health professionals
who are not doctors or
nurses.
Medical profession is the
practice of diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of
diseases. It includes variety
of health care practices cure
and prevention of illness.

8. Health career Planning refers to an
individual’s plan to make a career choice,
growing in the chosen career, or making
a career shift. Career planning involves
the very important step of self-
assessment.

9. WHAT ARE THE
COMPONENTS AND STEPS
IN MAKING A HEALTH
CAREER PLAN?

10. 1. Self-Assessment
Discover your personal strengths
through self-assessments (values,
interests, personality, testing, skills,
etc.

11. 2. Career Exploration
You can explore different careers and
work environments through career fairs,
online research, meetings, internships,
alumni connections, professional
resources.

12. 3. Decision Making
Before you decide on taking a career that
works for you, you can evaluate and narrow
down your options through listing the pros
and cons, comparing your personal strengths
and interests, and deciding which career
fulfills both current and future goals.

13. 4. Plan of Action
Plan achievable goals and develop
strategies to reach your goals into
smaller steps, identify actions foe this
step, utilize helpful people and
resources, review and adapt your plan
regularly.

15. Career pathways are clusters
occupations that are grouped because
of shared skills. All pathways include a
variety of occupations that require
different levels of education, skills,
and training. Selecting a career
pathway provides you with an area of
focus, along with flexibility and a
variety of ideas to pursue personal
development.

16. 1. Disease Prevention and Control
People who specialize in this
career path focus on
communicable and non-
communicable diseases.

17. 2. Personal Healthcare
Professionals in this
field perform
healthcare-related
tasks at a personal
care level

18. 3. Maternal and Child Care
These health workers deal
with complex public health
issues that affect women,
children, and their families
Sample Careers:
 Midwifery
 Community Health Educator
 Outreach Specialist

19. 4. Mental HealthCare
These medical professionals
specialize in dealing with
interpersonal and intrapersonal
relationships and life skills.
Sample Careers:
 Social Work
 Clinical Psychology
 Psychiatry
 Guidance Counseling

20. 5. Community Healthcare
Specialists in this area
focus on the
maintenance protection
and improvement of the
health of all community
members

21. 6. Environmental Healthcare Management
These health worker’s
trying to establish the
correlation between and
among the physical,
chemical and biological,
social, and psychosocial
factors in the surrounding
environment.
Sample Careers:
 Air quality monitoring
 Soil science analysis
 Hazardous and solid waste
management
 Environmental noise control
• Radiological assessment

22. 7. Drug Prevention and Control
People whose careers
revolve around this area
seek to reduce community
and individual problems
related to alcohol and drug
abuse through evidence-
based programs and policy
advocacy.
Sample Careers:
 Drug Enforcement
• Drug and Alcohol
Rehabilitation

23. 8. Nutrition
Specialists in this area
find ways to balance
individuals’ food and
nutrition and their impact
on patients’ health. These
include meal planning,
food preparation, and
economics
Sample Careers:
 Clinical Dietetics
 Food and Nutrition
Management
 Public Health Nutrition
 Education and Research

24. 9. Health Education
Those who work in this
field are tasked with the
promotion of healthcare
and training of health
workers on managing
change in healthcare.
Sample Careers:
• Education and Research
• Community Health Work

25. 10. Dental Health
Dental health workers
deal with various oral
conditions
Sample Careers:
 Dental Hygiene
 Dental Nursing
 Dental health support

26. 11. Occupational Safety
Careers in this path are
related to the safety,
health, and welfare of
people engaged in work
or employment
Sample Careers:
 Occupational Health and
Safety Technician
 Health Inspector
 Industrial Hygienist

27. 12. Emergency Medical Services
People assigned to this
work specialize in out-
of-hospital medical
care.
Sample Careers:
• Emergency Medical Aid
• Paramedic