Healthcare

Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Worker/Counselor

Support
  • Observe client interview, help prepare case histories and assess problems
  • Help conduct vocational testing and psychometric assessment
  • Develop and implement counselling and intervention programs to assist clients in determining goals and means of attaining them
  • Learn how to counsel clients, provide therapy and mediation services, and facilitate group sessions
  • Attend meetings with community agencies or partners, and identify additional or alternative services and provide referrals
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling programs and interventions, and clients' progress in resolving identified problems and movement toward defined objectives
  • Follow up on results of counselling programs and clients' adjustments
  • Prepare assessment, progress, follow-up and court reports
  • May supervise other counsellors, social service staff and assistants
  • May provide public education and consultation to other professionals or groups regarding counselling services, issues and methods
  • May conduct research, publish research papers, educational texts and articles and deliver presentations at conferences
  • May participate in fundraising activities

Dietician/Nutritionist

Vegetables
  • Help develop, administer and supervise nutrition and food preparation and service programs in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, company cafeterias or similar settings
  • Learn how to evaluate nutritional status of individuals and provide nutrition counselling and consulting to health professionals, dietetic interns, community groups, government, media and individuals
  • Aid in the prevention and/or treatment of inadequate nutrition
  • Help plan, evaluate and conduct nutrition education programs and develop educational materials for various audiences
  • Practice on an individual basis or as a member of an interdisciplinary team to determine nutritional needs of patients and to plan normal and therapeutic menus
  • Study and analyze current scientific nutritional studies and conduct research to improve the nutritional value, taste, appearance and preparation of food
  • Observe the development, testing and evaluation, and marketing of food and nutrition products or as a company representative supplying product related information to health professionals
  • Confer with other health professionals, community groups, government and the media to provide consultation and advice in areas of nutrition interpretation, intervention and policy

Audiologist/Speech Pathologist

Audiologist

Audiologists perform some or all of the following duties:

  • Administer tests and examinations and observe patients to diagnose and evaluate speech, voice, resonance, language, cognitive-linguistic and swallowing disorders
  • Plan and implement remedial programs to correct speech, language and voice disorders
  • Learn how to establish group and personalized care plans working as a member of an interdisciplinary team
  • Help conduct research on speech and other communication disorders and on the development and design of diagnostic procedures and devices

Speech-language pathologists perform some or all of the following duties:

  • Administer tests and examinations and observe patients to diagnose and evaluate speech, voice, resonance, language, cognitive-linguistic and swallowing disorders
  • Plan and implement remedial programs to correct speech, language and voice disorders
  • Establish group and personalized care plans working as a member of an interdisciplinary team
  • Conduct research on speech and other communication disorders and on the development and design of diagnostic procedures and devices
  • May instruct students and other health care personnel
  • May participate in fundraising activities

Dental

Dentist
  • Observe the examination of patients' teeth, gums and surrounding tissue to diagnose disease, injury and decay and plan appropriate treatment
  • Help restore, extract and replace diseased and decayed teeth
  • Learn how to perform oral surgery, periodontal surgery and other treatments
  • Clean teeth and instruct patients on oral hygiene
  • Help design bridgework, fit dentures and provide appliances to correct abnormal positioning of the teeth and jaws, or write fabrication instructions or prescriptions for use by denturists and dental technicians

Kinesiology

Kinesiologist
  • Help conduct fitness and human movement tests and assessments
  • Learn how to design and implement programs to maintain, rehabilitate or enhance movement and performance in the areas of sports, recreation, work and exercise
  • Provide expert advice and consulting services to community groups, corporations, schools and other organizations in the design and development of fitness programs and activities
  • Proof read proposals and press statements for corporations, industry and the fitness community
  • Sports consultants provide expert advice and consulting service to sports associations and other organizations in the design, development and administration of sports programs and activities
  • Recreation, sports and fitness policy analysts conduct research and develop government policies related to recreation, sports, fitness and athletic safety and standards
  • Recreation, sports and fitness program supervisors develop, plan and co-ordinate sports, fitness and recreation programs, and special sporting events
  • Fitness appraisers conduct fitness tests and assessments, and design, develop and deliver fitness counselling
  • Exercise therapists conduct fitness tests and assessments, and design, develop and deliver rehabilitative exercise programs in occupational and related health settings

Lab Technician/Researcher

Lab Technician
  • Observe how to conduct chemical analyses of blood, urine, and cerebro-spinal and other body fluids
  • Study blood cells and other tissues to determine their relation to various physiological and pathological conditions
  • Help prepare tissue sections for microscopic examinations using techniques to demonstrate special cellular tissue elements or other characteristics
  • Become familiar with procedures for the analysis of specimens and for medical laboratory experiments
  • Help perform blood group, type and compatibility tests for transfusion purposes
  • May help perform the duties of a pathologist's assistant in some hospitals

Nursing/Patient Service Worker

Nursing
  • Help answer call signals; supply and empty bed pans; bathe, dress and groom patients; serve meal trays, feed or assist in feeding of patients and assist patients with menu selection; lift, turn or massage patients; shave patients prior to operations; supervise patients' exercise routines, set up and provide leisure activities for patients, and accompany patients on outside recreational activities; and perform other duties related to patient care
  • Learn how to take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse; report or record fluid intake and output; observe or monitor patients' status and document patient care on charts; collect specimens such as urine, faeces or sputum; administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas and perform other procedures as directed by nursing and hospital staff
  • Assist with transporting patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery
  • Carry messages, reports, requisitions and specimens from one department to another
  • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
  • Maintain inventory of supplies
  • May help perform maintenance tasks such as assisting with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment

Optometry/Optician Internship

Optometrist
  • Learn how to examine patients' eyes, conduct tests and use ophthalmoscopes, biomicroscopes and other specialized instruments to determine visual efficiency
  • Help prescribe treatment (excluding surgery) to conserve, improve and correct vision and other ocular disorders
  • Become familiar with how to prescribe and fit eyeglasses and contact lenses, educate and counsel patients on contact lens use and care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements, working distances and safety factors
  • Refer patients to ophthalmologists or other physicians and surgeons for treatment of ocular or other diseases or conditions

Rehabilitation Worker (Massage, Physiotherapist/Aide, Occupational Therapy)

Rehabilitation
  • Assess patients' physical abilities through evaluative procedures such as functional ability tests
  • Establish treatment goals with patients based on physical diagnoses
  • Learn how to plan and implement programs of physiotherapy including therapeutic exercise, manipulations, massage, education, the use of electro-therapeutic and other mechanical equipment and hydro-therapy
  • Evaluate effectiveness of treatment plans and modify accordingly
  • Communicate with referring physician and other healthcare professionals regarding patients' problems, needs and progress
  • Maintain clinical and statistical records and confer with other health care professionals
  • Help develop and implement health promotion programs for patients, staff and the community
  • May conduct research in physiotherapy
  • May provide consulting or education services.