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Healthcare Clinical Services Pathway

Overview: The Health Science pathway covers the broad field of occupations related to healthcare and medicine. Healthcare is one of the top five fastest-growing industries and one of the largest in the United States. Health science4related occupations such as nurse practitioner will generate up to 40% more new jobs than any other industry in the coming years according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, three of the 20 fastest-growing occupations in America are related to healthcare. Employment in home healthcare and nursing and residential care should increase rapidly as life expectancies rise and families need assistance caring for elderly family members and thus rely more on long-term care facilities. New technologies will continue to enable earlier diagnoses of many diseases, which often increases the ability to treat conditions that were previously terminal. Industry growth will also occur because of the shift from inpatient to less expensive outpatient and home healthcare because of improvements in diagnostic testing and surgical procedures, along with patients9 desires to be treated at home. Rapid growth is expected for workers in occupations concentrated outside the inpatient hospital sector, such as physical and occupational therapists and personal and home health workers. Traditional inpatient hospital positions are no longer the only option for many future healthcare workers. The Health Science pathway focuses on public health, health education, healthcare administration, or occupational health and safety. A shortlist of careers that this pathway focuses on contains positions like dietician, emergency medicine paramedic, licensed practitioner nurse (LPN), occupational therapist, physical therapist, pharmacist, physician assistant, and registered nurse (RN) among countless others. Health science professionals work in hospitals, dental offices and laboratories, and government and private research centers. They also work within pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, the community in general and within public agencies, large healthcare organizations, and so on. The Health Science pathway will target careers at the professional and technical levels in healthcare. Students enrolled in these courses should be well prepared to pursue degrees at both the two- and four-year college levels.
 
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