Exploring Health Care Careers, 2 Volume Set

Grade 7 Up–These well-organized volumes list more than 100 careers in alphabetically arranged chapters. The range of coverage includes aromatherapists, hospice workers, neurologists, phlebotomists, and urologists. Each chapter opens with an interview with a person working in the field. This is followed by discussions of job tasks, personal qualities needed, educational and licensing requirements, scholarships and grants available, employers, advancement possibilities, salary ranges, and a projected outlook for the field. Sidebars break up the text and present information on recommended skills, words used in the profession, and historical facts and profiles of related people or events. New coverage of alternative and other careers, and two additional indexes of government career classification systems, update the last edition (2002).