The Health Occupations Program aims to provide individuals with the opportunity to reinforce their knowledge, skills and competencies to satisfy the commitment required for a career in healthcare.
Career Methods.
The Health/Service Occupations Career Foundations Certificate prepares students with the entry-level skills and competencies required for employment opportunities within the care and wellness work trade. Core courses provide in-depth insight into career and health Occupations trends, activity academic and educational opportunities, and educational, physical, emotional and behavioral needs. Subjects specialize in competencies required by care and wellness function suppliers such as HIPAA, professionalism/ethics, diversity/cultural awareness, teamwork, collaboration, conflict resolution, customer service, safe practice/infection management, medical conditions and support. Completion of this skills certificate provides the primary step in what calls associate degree convergence related to the selection of further programs of study that result in the care and repair of careers.
Employment in Health Occupations
Employment in aid businesses is projected to grow sixteen percent from 2020 to 2030, much faster than normal for all occupations, adding about 6 million new jobs. Support occupation class measure is estimated to facilitate additional jobs compared to any opposite activity group. This projected growth is especially due to the ally in the aging nursing population, resulting in a great demand for support services.
The median annual wage for aid physicians and technical occupations (such as registered nurses, physicians and surgeons, and dentists) was $75,040 in 2021, well beyond the median annual wage for all occupations within the economy of $45,760.
Healthcare Occupations support (such as home health Occupations aides, physiographic assistants, and medical transcriptionists) can have a median annual salary of $29,880, which is less than the median annual salary for all occupations within the economy.