Police Officer

Duties and Responsibilities:

A police officer is a person who has many tasks. However their main task is to protect the people and the property. They are those who are responsible for people’s safety. Also police officers are those you call if you have a problem or if someone’s causing harm. Police officers also deal with people causing harm to others, by arresting them. If they feel like a person is responsible for a crime, they can arrest them, and prevent less harm from happening. Also a police officer patrols designated areas. They also enforce laws as well. Police officers have every right to question you and stop you. Police officers are allowed to testify in court, and are supposed to write a report according to an incident involving a crime. All these tasks depend in size and type of law enforcement organizations.

Salary:

 Median pay (annual): 56,980 USD (2012)

Median pay (hourly): 27.4 USD (2012)

Education: The most important thing to be a police is not have a criminal record at all. You must be 21 years of age to be a police. Also, a high school diploma, valid driver’s license, and having no prior convictions are required. Going to a police academy is required as well. Within the academy you’ll take many exams and learn skills. Most common tests are physical and stamina exams. Police officers are trained on how to use firearms, responding to emergencies, controlling traffic, self-defense techniques, risk assessment, and role playing. In order to be a police officer it must take around 19-22 weeks.

Reflection: Honestly, I wouldn't want to be a police officer. I just find their jobs to risky, and I am not willing to risk my life out there in the dangerous world. I look up to these people, and I like their job because it's interesting.

Health Educator

Duties and Responsibilities:

A health educator promotes most of their ideas about health. Sometimes they even make programs to encourage people to choose a healthy lifestyle. Health educators basically, collect data, and find ways how people or the community can live healthier. They try to look for improvement each time so the people can live healthier. A health educator sometimes analyzes data, sees people’s weaknesses and tries to figure out a solution for a certain health issue. They sometimes control or run, their programs depending what it is. Some Health Educator work for different issues and see what’s the problem, or if anything needs further improvement. Many health educators are available for different health issues that run through our community. Most common issues are basically, environmental health, and physical health.

Salary:

Median pay (annual): 41,830 USD (2012)

Median pay (hourly): 20.11 USD (2012)

Projected 10-year growth: 21% (2012)

 Number of jobs: 99,400 (2012)

Education: First step in order to be a health educator is to have a Bachelor’s Degree in health care. Sometimes a High School diploma can get you a spot. Also, some high school undergraduates might be accepted as well. They have to take one year program. Then they have to take special training. Most raining is done on the job.

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.

Chiropractor

Responsibilities and Duties:

     Chiropractors are people who work on alternative medicine and help their patients with back problems and other body disorders occurring in the skeletal muscular system. Most patients have a common problem with their spines and chiropractors have responsibilities to relief their patient’s pain. Most common cases when you need to see a chiropractor is in when there is lower back pain, headaches, neck pain, repetitive strains, sports injuries, arthritic pain, and car accident injuries. Chiropractors either do massages or other exercises like adjustments to relief pain. Some can be painful as they are performed, but as soon as that’s over then relief kicks in.

Salary: $97,380- $136,591

Education:

      To be a chiropractor you need to have specific training. 4 years of health education is needed, and 1,000 hours of supervised clinical training is needed as well. 1 – 4 years of pre-requisite training in basic sciences at university level followed by a 4-year full‐time doctorate program; DC. A 5-year integrated bachelor degree; BSc (Chiro). A 2 - 3 year Master's degree following the completion of a bachelor's degree leads to the MSc (Chiro) might come in handy.