Monitor Surveillance Technician

Duties and responsibilities:

Monitor Surveillance Technicians are responsible for observing the electrical activity of heartbeats that are displayed on monitors in cardiac care. They examine the patterns and give the results to the nursing staff and physicians.

Average salary: $26,000 – $41,000

Educational requirements:

Students should take math, science, and computer technology courses. After graduating from high school, students should enroll in a vocational school, community college, or hospitals. This will take from 2 months up to 2 years.

Reflection: I honestly wouldn’t like to be a monitor surveillance technician because it sounds like a pretty boring job in my opinion.

                                    

Student Success Statement

“The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.”

Anonymous Author

Reflection: what I believe this quote means is that in order for you to be satisfied with yourself it’s not by impressing others, but by impressing yourself in the way that you would have never imagined.

Health Sciences Librarian:

Duties and responsibilities:

A health sciences librarian’s duty is to collect and organize medical information. They also help practitioners find the information they need for their care, education, research, and administration. Librarians are set to acquire books, journals, and other materials over the library. They’re also in charge of any electronic information on the system. They coordinate and control budgets and library technicians. Library technicians help organize anything out of order in the library.

Average salary: $20,000 - $30,000 (library technicians)

$35,000 - $55,000 (librarians)

Educational requirements:

Should have a undergraduate degree in one of the life sciences and must earn a master’s degree in library science from a program by the American Library Association.

Reflection: um no I would totally not like to be a health science librarian because I don’t like being in quiet places. (x

Student Success Statement

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”

     Bo Jackson

Reflection: what I believe this quote means is that when you have a goal in life there is obviously going to be obstacles coming your way, and even if you fall pick yourself up and keep on going. Because there is nothing impossible that can be accomplished in life. You don’t stop until you have finally reached your goals and feel proud of yourself!!! J   

Student Success Statement

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Michael Phelps

22 Olympic metals (18 gold)

Reflection: there’s nothing that’s impossible, you can always accomplish whatever you set your mind to. Believe in yourself, even when no one else will. Prove you can go farther than what anyone could have ever imagined.

 

Student Success Statement

“Try a little harder to be a little better.”

   Gordon B. Hinckley

Reflection: you can never improve and make yourself a better person so always keep making yourself a better human (; . J

 

Medical Illustrator

Duties and responsibilities:

Medical illustrators work in creating pictures for textbooks, journals, magazines, and educational films. They might also work in modeling artificial skills like ears, or noses for patients that are deformed. (x

Average salary: $35,000 – $50,000

Educational requirement:

Students should take high school courses over art and science. In college they should major in art or major in science. Undergraduate science courses are required for medical school. Medical illustrators have Master’s degrees, and a requirement is a graduate degree in medical illustrations, a portfolio review, and a completion of a national examination.

Reflection: do you think you’d like to be one? Why or why not?

I don’t think I would like to be one because I have no type of patience for art.