Chosen Career Path on Allied Health

Chosen Career Path on Allied Health

Introduction

The field I have chosen is Allied Health because it is essential when you venture into it as a professional. As allied health professionals, you aim to treat, prevent and diagnose illness and conditions by working as a health team to provide the best patient outcomes. The main position I hope to obtain in the field is RN Nurse because going in the future, I love to help the community to live in good health. As RN-Nurse, my responsibility is to assess patient health problems and implement nursing care plans that show the sign of love to people. Therefore, this paper aims to discuss my chosen field, Allied Health, and the position I hope to obtain from the field. The significant factor in why I chose the allied health field is that it involves working with people and helping to ensure the good health of patients, which to me as an individual is something I would like to achieve. This is because I take it as a very satisfying way to have a significant and direct impact on someone else life.

The allied health field focuses on preventing and diagnosing medical conditions. This indicates that as an individual who is interested in supporting other people's health needs, you may consider pursuing a job related to the field. There are numerous opportunities in this healthcare field that can help you decide which job best suits your interest and skills. Because of numerous opportunities in this field, individuals interested in pursuing this can get several types of degrees in allied health. In this field, there are various jobs that someone can obtain, including medical assistant, medical technologist, Surgical technician, Prosthetist, Occupational therapist, Physician assistant, and Dental hygienist. Looking at the available jobs in the allied health field, it is clear that choosing a job in this field is an indication that you care about humankind (Wainwright, 652). As allied health professionals, the main duty you need to accomplish is to use evidence-based practices to prevent and treat various illnesses and conditions. Being a professional in this field, your main job is to support clients' healthy lifestyles, whether cognitive, social, or psychological. Another duty you have to perform when working in this field is providing essential services that prevent and promote the delivery of healthcare services to communities and families based on a primary health care approach. Also, as RN nurses, my daily duty when working in this field is to ensure that I treat, rehabilitate, and improve patients' lives. When working in this field, your duty as RN-nurse is to provide services that promote health and achieve optimal recovery from health problems.

To be one of the professionals in allied health, there is significant training and education needed to be employed. But education and training needed in this field depend on your professional choice. The main route to be employed in this field includes having a degree in a post-graduate course approved by the Health and Care Professions Council. Apart from having a degree in a health-related course, you also need to have at least A-levels or equivalent qualifications at level 3 plus supporting GCSEs. In addition, to get into the position of RN-Nurse in the field, I need to obtain an Association Degree in Nursing, followed by successful completion NCLEX-RN exam. In order to receive a promotion in this field, you need to be competent in your previous position. It is also important that you remain competitive when in your current position as that will raise your profile, thus making you get a promotion. Yes, apart from being competitive, there are other personality traits that individuals need to remain successful in this field, including being curious and interested in learning and having great communication skills (Coyne College,2020). As an allied health professional, you need to be interested in learning because, as a professional in this field, you are exposed to new situations that give you the opportunity to learn new things and expand your mind, thus becoming successful in this field. Another important personality trait that individual needs to be successful is excellent communication skills. With great communication skills, the individual will be able to kindly and patient and their family effectively. Having good communication as a professional in this field will help explain to patients their health conditions effectively, thus making your work successful.

The job outlook in allied health is highly satisfying because professionals in this field work together to ensure patients' good health. It is a very satisfying field to work in because it gives individuals the opportunity to have a significant and direct impact on someone else's life (Solomon et al., 4). Given the demand for healthcare professionals, there is a projected increase in jobs in this field. The number of populations around the globe is continuing to increase; thus, they increase positions for jobs in this field. The average starting salary for most allied health care ranges from $36,000 to $64,000, indicating that the hourly wages for starting employees in the field are $1,803. Yes, in the United States, the allied health professional is paid based on their working environment because of the condition in the workplace and the risk they take in ensuring that patients in the community get quality healthcare treatment. From the analysis of the field, it is significant that there is a vast opportunity for advancement in the allied health field because what you need is to go back to school and earn an advanced degree like a doctorate and get a transition to the next position.

Conclusion

In conclusion, having done a significant analysis about allied health, it is significant that this field has wide advantages, such as enabling healthcare professionals to work together as a team. Another advantage of this field is that it helps healthcare professionals to provide critical support for the patient, thus increasing their overall quality of life. Also, this field has helped healthcare practitioners to make a significant contribution to ensuring that there is quality healthcare delivery. It has also helped healthcare professionals such as RN-Nurse provide services to patients that are essential in promoting health and preventing them from infectious diseases. The disadvantage of allied health is that it at some point makes healthcare practitioners feel undervalued. It always makes health practitioners' working conditions difficult as not all the patients are easy to work with, making it challenging to work in this field. I choose this profession because it helps me develop special skills in RN-Nursing, thus helping the patient get effective healthcare treatment. I also choose this profession because it enables me to learn how to deliver quality healthcare to the patient as RN-Nurse. 

Work Cited

Coyne College, "Reasons to Consider an Allied Health Career - [Facts Only]." Trade School Programs in Chicago, 20 Aug. 2020, www.coynecollege.edu/why-should-consider-allied-health

Solomon, Daniela, Nicholas Graves, and Judith Catherwood. "Allied health growth: what we do not measure we cannot manage." Human Resources for Health 13.1 (2015): 1-6.

Wainwright, Thomas W. "The Quality Improvement Challenge—How Nurses and Allied Health Professionals Can Solve the Knowing-Doing Gap in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)." Medicine 56.12 (2020): 652.