Student Success Statement

“There is no giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.”

-Anon

Reflection: I believe this quote means that instead of trying to do everything in one step take your time to do it right. For example say your down by one touchdown and there’s one minute left don’t risk everything on one pass (step) take what they give you (little steps). So in conclusion don’t try do everything in one pass (step) take little steps and do it right.

 

                                                    Recreation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Recreational therapists plan, direct, and coordinate recreation-based treatment programs for people with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. Recreational therapists use a variety of modalities, including arts and crafts, drama, music, dance, sports, games, and community reintegration field trips to help maintain or improve a patient’s physical, social, and emotional well-being.

Salary: $42,280 per year

Educational Requirements:

Most recreational therapists need a bachelor’s degree in recreational therapy or a related field. Though less common, associate’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees are also available.

Recreational therapy programs include courses in assessment, human anatomy, medical and psychiatric terminology, characteristics of illnesses and disabilities, and the use of assistive devices and technology. Bachelor’s degree programs usually include an internship.

 I would like to work in this field because it gives me an oppturnity to help people.

 Student Success Statement

Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’

Expediency asks the question ‘Is it polite?’

Vanity asks the question ‘Is it popular?’

But, conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflection:  I believe this quote means we all must take a step that is neither safe. This means that we all will do something reckless. Also we will all take a position that everyone won’t agree with but that is way we find out if it is right. 

Radiologic Technologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

                Radiologic Technologists use x-ray machines, ultrasound machines, magnetic resonance scanners, positron emission scanners, and other technologically advanced machines to help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries under the direction of a physician.  They are responsible for explaining and getting patients ready for radiological tests and treatment that will be performed.  They place the equipment at the right distance and right angle from the patient to make the appropriate images for the physicians. Radiographers also assist physicians in performing sophisticated procedures. It is their responsibility to ensure that the radiology equipment is properly maintained. They work un hospitals, clinics, medical laboratories, nursing homes, and in private industry.

Average Salary: $24,000 - $36,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available in high school. To Become a registered radiologic technologists, students must complete a two year training program in a hospital or school. A high school diploma or GED certificate is required for entry into these programs.

 I would consider working in this field because it seems very interesting. 

Student Success Statement

“Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

-Abraham Lincoln  

Reflection: I believe that this quote means that we should all believe that right is right and just leave it at that. For example is someone is during a problem weird and you say it’s wrong but it’s right you should just leave it at that and not try to change it. In conclusion, you should also dare to right and leave right at right.

 

        Radiation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Radiation Therapy technologists assist radiologists and onocologist (cancer specialists) in treating diseases by exposing areas of patients’ bodies to ionizing radiation. In addition to helping with treatment, technologists are responsible for maintaining the radiation therapy equipment and helping to maintain patients records. Radiation therapy is provided in hospitals, public, health clinics, cancer treatment centers, and private offices.

Average Salary:  $22,000 - $36,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available in high school. Students can train to become a radiation therapist in either one or two years programs. One year programs are often offered by hospitals. To qualify for a one year program, an applicant must have graduated from an approved program in radiologic technology or been a nurse with education in radiation physics. A high school diploma or a GED is required to enter two year courses.

  I would like to work in this field because it seems like a very exciting field. 

Student Success Statement

“The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon:   Self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem”

-Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Refection: I believe this quote means that if you do the right things your self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem will all go up. If you do the wrong things than you will be lacking in each of the things that give you confidence. For example say you help someone with their homework than your self-esteem will go up but if you don’t your self-esteem won’t go up it’ll stay the same. In conclusion you should always CTR and these will be your rewards: Self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

 

Psychologist

                Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychologists study the behavior and actions of people to understand, explain, and change their behavior patterns. They also provide counseling and therapy to those with emotional, learning and behavior problems. Psychologists work in schools, clinics, hospitals, and private practice They can specialize in clinical, educational, quantitative, developmental, social, experimental, and industrial- organizational psychology. Their duties often include:

Ø  Diagnosing and treating problems

Ø  Interviewing and observing patients

Ø  Developing, selecting, and administering tests

Ø  Counseling patients, groups, and families

Ø  Developing mental health programs

Ø  Conduction research and teaching

Average Salary: $45,000 ­- $65,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should prepare for a career in psychology by taking the most challenging (AP or IB) high school courses available, especially in English, and science.

Licensed psychologists must earn a Ph. D in psychology. Admission to graduate programs is usually dependent on the quality of undergraduate performance in a psychology major.  Clinical psychologists must complete a two-year supervised internship after earning their doctorate and pass oral and written state qualifying exams.

School psychologists must earn at least a master's degree.

I would enjoy working in this field because the human mind has always amazed me.

Student Success Statement

“Right is right only when entire”

-Victor Hugo

Reflection: I believe this quote means that you are only right when it is entirely right not half way right. For example say that you tell your parents that you are going to tutoring but then you leave half way through that is not right. You must be entirely right and honest or else it doesn’t count as being right. It counts as being wrong. In conclusion, you must be entirely right and not lie. You must be entirely honest and right or be half honest and wrong. 

Student Success Statement

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do,  not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
                          -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that this quote means that the more you do something the easier it will become. For example say you have trouble with a math problem if you try to solve it every day then it will become easier without a doubt. So the more persistant you are the easier things will become. 

                Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychiatrist are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness. As physicians, they are licensed to use a vary wide variety  of treatment and may write prescriptions.  Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities.  Their duties include:

·         Designing treatment programs.

·         Conducting psychotherapy sessions.

·         Prescribing potent mental illness drugs.

·         Supervising electrotherapy treatments.

·         Conducting research.

·         Leading a team of mental health care providers.

Average Salary:  $90,000 - $200,000

Educational Requirements:

In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine, psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry. 

 When You Tell One Lie

                 -Paul Hatch

When you tell one lie, it leads to another

So you tell two lies to cover each other

Then you tell three lies and, Oh brother,

You’re in trouble up to your ears!

So you tell four lies to try to protect you

Then you tell five lies so folks won’t suspect you

Then you tell six lies and you’ll collect

A life filled with worries and fears

‘Cause you can’t remember how many lies you’ve told

And half the things you say aren’t true

And sometimes you’ll slip up, you’ll trip up and then

Whatever will you do?

So you lie and lie without even trying

And each lie you tell will keep multiplying

‘Till the whole wide world will know you’re lying

Then you’ll be

Suspected

Detected

Rejected

Neglected

Disliked

And you should!

When you lie, you’re closing the door

On everything good

                Student Success Statement

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

                -Thomas Edison

I think this quote means that what you consist of your personality and not material good. If you are a poor but fair, kind , peaceful that is what you consist of. You could the richest man in the world but you would think that material good makes up who you are but it doesn’t. Your personality makes you who you are not things.  

                                Psychiatric Aide/technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychiatric aides and technicians help care for mentally ill, disabled, or infirm people who confined to hospitals, mental facilities, and residential care facilities. They work under the supervision of mental health professionals or nurses.  They often work in hospitals, social service centers, crisis centers, schools, and substance abuse facilities.  Psychiatric technicians usually have more formal training and responsibilities than aides.  Psychiatric aides and technicians often:

·         Help patients bathe, dress, and eat.

·         Escort patients to and from wards or clinics.

·         Aid or restrain patients.

·         Help with orientation and housekeeping.

·         Interview patients and families.

·         Observe patients and report their actions to.

·         Teach daily living skills

·         Dispense medications, and engage in educational and recreational activities

Average Salary: $12,000- $24,000

Educational Requirements:
Psychiatric aides need not always have a high school diploma or formal training, however most employers prefer that they do. Psychiatric technicians need a high school diploma and should have taken course in English and science. A shirt training course previous job experience as a psychiatric aide is often also required.

 

          Student Success Statement

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

-Henry David Thoreau

I believe this quote means that if you go in the direction you set your goals in you will accomplish them without hesitation. If you hesitated in which way you want to go you will not achieve them. You should always do what you want with confidence.                

Pharmacist

Duties and Responsibilities:

                Pharmacists compound, or prepare, prescriptions written by physicians, dentists, and other practitioners.  They review these prescriptions to validate their accuracy and then prepare the medication.  This can involve weighing, measuring, and mixing drugs.  Once the compounds are prepared, pharmacists then dispense them to customers and patients.

Pharmacists answer patients' and customers' questions about the drugs they are taking and drugs which can be sold over the counter.  In some cases, pharmacists are responsible for taking inventory of the drugs on the shelves and ordering any which they are low on.

Pharmacists work in hospitals, clinics, health departments, universities, and grocery, drug, and discount stores.  Those who work in stores must be aware of the other health supplies available in the store so they do not direct customers in the wrong direction.

Average Salary:  $33,000 - $51,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging high school classes (including AP or IB) available in English, science, and math.

All pharmacists must graduate from a college of pharmacy.  Most pharmacy schools require applicants to take the Pharmacy College Admissions Test (P-CAT), and some require up to two years of pre-pharmacy education.  Other colleges will admit students directly from high school.

Normally it takes at least five years to earn a Pharmacy Degree.  To earn a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, Pharm.D. requires at least six.