Other Service Providers Subspecialties
Acupuncturist:
They offer alternative medicine to treat a patient, by inserting and manipulating needles in the body. The intent is to promote health and relieve pain and suffering. This treatment is based on the belief of vital energy, energetic balance and imbalance.
Case Manager/Care Coordinator:
A Case Manager coordinate the services necessary to help optimize an individual's health. Examples may be mental, medical or legal. With medical, this refers to the facilitation of treatment plans to make certain the proper medical care is given to the disabled, injured or ill person.
Clinical Ethicist:
Clinical Ethicists usually have training in medicine, theology, law, nursing, philosophy, social science or public health. They help people make value-based decisions within the health care system. Seeing as the right answer is not always clear in ethical situations, Clinical Ethicists are used to help workers and patients deal with these tough decisions.
Community Health Worker:
These are members of a group or community that are chosen to provide basic medical and health care to a community. They are also recognized as health care providers, community health aides and community health promoters. They are often used in developing countries because they lack educated health professionals.
Contractor:
A Contractor is simply a person, business or corporation that offers goods or services to another, under specified terms. Generally meaning that services will be provided for a certain amount of money over a specific amount of time. A hospital might hire a contractor to deliver clean bedding to them regularly for a year.
Driver:
A Driver is an individual that is in charge of transporting somebody or something to a specific location. Drivers are required for cars, buses, taxis, airplanes, helicopters, ambulances and boats. There are numerous establishments that hire drivers out if you are unable to or don't want to drive yourself.
Funeral Director:
Funeral Directors are responsible for organizing and implementing the burial of an individual. They are also known as morticians. Funeral Directors arrange and direct the tasks required when dealing with a death.
Genetic Counselor, MS:
A Genetic Counselor has a mayors degree in genetic counseling and has educated themselves on genetic diseases and how these diseases run in families. They can assist a person or family in understanding their risks for particular genetic diseases, and well as educate the person or family about that particular disease. Along with this, they will assess the risk of passing any genetic diseases onto their children.
Graphics Designer:
A Graphic Designers is the profession of designing print or electronic forms or visual information. Healthcare graphic designers work specifically for health care establishments. They help with website design, prints and various other advertising techniques and business needs.
Health Educator:
Health Educators offer information on overall health and health related issues. They are skilled in assessing health training needs and also plan health education programs. Numerous Health Educators often specialize and may work as independents or in hospitals, schools and various other establishments.
Home Modifications:
This involves changing a home so a person with disabilities can perform normal daily activities safely and with comfort, while remaining somewhat independent. Some modifications are simple, like placing a lift on the toilet or slip pads in the tub. Other times an investment is required in order to make the necessary modifications.
Homeopath:
A Homeopath seeks a remedy that will fulfill each of the physical and psychological symptoms a person has. A Homeopath uses three levels of therapy; first aid, acute homeopathy and constitutional homeopathy. Homeopathy is based on the belief that the body, emotions and mind are not separated, rather they are integrated.
Independent Duty Corpsman:
This person may be assigned independent duty aboard ships and submarines. They help prevent disease and injury. They may also function as a clinical or specialty technician.
Independent Duty Medical Technicians:
Participates in and helps manage planning, providing and evaluating patient care. They also organize the medical environment and support activities in patient care situations. They also provide medical training to agencies and others.
Interpreter:
An Interpreter is responsible for translating sentences from one language to another. Interpreters are used in a multitude of situations. An example is in a hospital when a patient speaks a foreign language.
Lactation Consultant, Non-RN:
This is a health professional that is educated, skilled and has experience in lactation, often referred to as breastfeeding. Their role is mainly to offer education, support and hands on assistance to women that are breastfeeding. The work in numerous places including hospitals, private practices and clinics.
Legal Medicine:
This branch of medicine deals with the application of medical knowledge to specific legal processes and proceedings. Another name for Legal Medicine is forensic medicine. A lawyer with an interest in certain medical aspects is referred to as a medical jurisprudence, not a physician.
Lodging:
This is a type of residential accommodation. Lodging can be short-term or long-term when health related. Some examples are nursing homes, group homes, special hospitals and various health institutions.
Meals:
A Meal is a moment of eating, that someone does at a specific time with specific food. In the health field, meals are provided for patients that stay in the hospital by the hospital food services department. Meals on Wheels is a form of meal delivery that people can pay for and have delivered to their residence.
Mechanotherapist:
A Mechanotherapist uses exercise to trigger healing and rehabilitation. Therapeutic massage or mass therapy is often used when describing Mechanotherapy. There are not many schools offering this type of training but it is starting to become more popular.
Medical Genetics, Ph.D. Medical Genetics:
Involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical Genetics refers to the applications of genetics to medical care. The diagnosis, management and counselling for people with genetic disorders is in the realm of medical genetics.
Medical Research:
Medical Research is generally known as biomedical research or experimental medicine. It's the basic research, applied research or translational research conducted to help and support the body of knowledge in the field of specific medicine. Medical research comes in two categories: the evaluation of new treatments and all other research.
Midwife:
The means -with woman-. A Midwife is a specialist in normal pregnancy and delivery. She is often part of a team of caregivers that help to ensure the best possible care for a pregnant woman and her baby.
Midwife, Lay:
A Lay Midwife has learned the skills necessary to help a woman in labor through courses but has no formal training. These women often believe strongly in natural childbirth and often do not do this for financial gain. This sort of practice is not legal in some states.
Military Health Care Provider:
A Military Health Care Provider trains and prepares individuals to give the best medicine, find new methods to treat and prevent diseases and to teach the best medicine in the world. A Military Health Care Provider offers medical and health services to members of the military. They also educate and research on the best medicines and medical treatments.
Naprapath:
They use gentle hands-on corrective therapy primarily used to return musuloskeletal balance. A Naprapath uses manual manipulation of muscles and tissue to relieve pain and restore alignment to the spine.
Naturopath:
A Naturopath uses a form of alternative medicine based on the belief of vitalism. This belief focuses on thinking vital forces guide the bodily process such reproduction, growth and metabolism. This is an example of a holistic type of treatment.
Prosthetics Case Management:
This is a collaborative process in prosthetics that assesses, plans, implements, monitors and evaluates all the options and various services necessary to meet the individual's needs. Advocacy and open communication are essential. Along with excellent resource management and promotion of quality interventions and results.
Reflexologist:
Uses alternative medicine for various treatments. Pressure is applied to the hands, feet or ears with specific thumb and finger movements. It is believed these actions result in a physical change to the body.
Research Data Abstracter/Coder:
Skilled Researcher Data Abstractors sift through volumes of medical information and pin point the specific data required. They are highly skilled experts with extensive backgrounds in medical coding along with hands-on clinical data abstraction. They hold some sort of medical records or related degree.
Research Study:
Medical Research is generally known as biomedical research or experimental medicine. It's the basic research, applied research or translational research conducted to help and support the body of knowledge in the field of specific medicine. The study of this is medical research study.
Sleep Specialist, PhD:
These are doctors highly training in sleep medicine. They are medical doctors with extra training. The medical side of this type of doctor encompasses aspects of neurology, pulmonologist, internal medicine and psychiatry.
Specialist:
This is an individual with extreme knowledge and experience within a specific field. For example, a pediatrician is a specialist in children. A surgeon is a specialist in surgery.
Vehicle Modifications:
Vehicle Modifications include numerous modification to a vehicle in order to accommodate the driver. This could include lowering the steering wheel or shortening the pedals for an extremely short person. If someone is disabled and doesn't have the use of their legs, the pedal control could be modified to the steering wheel. There are numerous medical circumstances where vehicle modification is required.
Veterinarian:
A Veterinarian simply takes care of sick and injured animals. There are different types of Veterinarians. They may also decide to specialize in medical disciplines like surgery, internal medicine or dermatology.