Health Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Administrator’s tasks depend on what kind of facility. For example there are many administrators, like nursing home administrators, clinical administrators, and assistant administrators. Furthermore, these are the main administrators, but there are more than just these three I just listed. Basically, these administrator have this task to file patients record. Depending on what kind of health administrator you are, some work can be pretty complex and sometimes work can be easy, depending on your facility too. An administrator will issue or pay bills in their offices. They sometimes spend the day in their offices answering the phone for questions, issues or any other related health problems. This seems easy to do, but it’s a lot more complicated than it looks. That’s why specific training is needed.

Salary: $64,821 per year

Education:

In order to be a health administrator, you have to have some sort of degree in something. Some administrators have a bachelor’s degree. Those with a bachelor degree are decent administrators working in small clinics. While those with a master degree work in complex offices in the hospital.

Dental Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities      

A dental assistant is someone to help a dentist during his or her performance. Dental assistants have many jobs and tasks. Together, a dentist and a dental assistant make a powerful team. Dental assistant do certain things like taking their patients to their seating chair. They can also collect dental instruments and other tools that will be used during the procedure, for example a cavity take out or even a tooth removal. Dental assistants also take X-rays of their patients and take impressions of teeth for study modeling. Dental assistants sometimes take over the office handling patients with their schedule and filing recordings.

Salary

Median pay (annual): 34,500 USD (2012)

Median pay (hourly): 16.59 USD (2012)

Entry level education: Postsecondary non-degree award

Projected 10-year growth: 25% (2012)

Number of jobs: 303,200 (2012)

Education

There is no major part of education to get you this spot. Most of the dental assistant got their way up here with only a high school diploma. Dental assistants mainly get on the job kind of training. Other major dental assistants get more complex training.

Dentist

      Duties and Responsibilities: A dentist is usually someone who professionalize with dental care. Regular dentist checkups are done to keep track how dirty or how clean someone’s teeth is. That’s why it’s important to be hygienic. A dentist knows how to clean teeth properly. Sometimes they have to deal with a patient’s cavity by filling it. Sometimes people don’t take care of their teeth properly that they even get infection. A dentist would treat the infection right away. Other times dentists perform dental surgeries, depending on the case. Some more complex cases are when a dentist needs to do dental implants. They need to know how much amount of anesthesia is needed before the surgeries. Therefore, dentists have multiple tasks.

Salary: Median pay (annual): 149,310 USD (2012)

Median pay (hourly): 71.79 USD (2012)

Entry level education: Doctoral or professional degree

Projected 10-year growth: 16% (2012)

Number of jobs: 146,800 (2012)

     Education: In order to be a dentist, you need to have a bachelor’s degree before you start in a dental school. 4 years of dental school is required as well. Massive training is wanted as well. You need to have a license in order to be a dentist. Without a dentistry license you can’t be a dentist anywhere around the U.S. The dentistry license has to be earned in a certain way.