"the type of organization responsible for establishing policy concerning the
overall operation of hospitals Ans✓✓✓ The AHA defines control
•Certification or licensure Ans✓✓✓ •Required to practice for many, although not
all, health care occupations
•for profit Ans✓✓✓ Minority of adult day services centers
•Internal medicine
•Pediatrics
•Family and General practice
•Ob/Gyn Ans✓✓✓ Primary care specialties are
•Nursing assistants (n = 1,450,960)
•Home health aides (n = 797,670)
•Medical assistants (n = 673,660)
Physical therapist assistants and aides (n = 141,51 Ans✓✓✓ The largest
occupations in Healthcare Support Occupations
•Physicians
•Nurses
•Radiology technicians
•Dieticians and nutritionists
•Pharmacists working in retail stores
, •Paramedics providing ambulance services
•Orthotists and prosthetists (Braces and artificial limbs)
•Medical records and health information technicians Ans✓✓✓ The people who
provide health care include...
•Practitioners and Technical Occupations
•Healthcare Support Occupations Ans✓✓✓ The Bureau of Labor Statistics has
two major categories of health care workers
•profit Ans✓✓✓ Majority of home health agencies, hospices, nursing homes, and
residential care communities were
•Psychiatric Ans✓✓✓ •Patients who have psychiatric-related illnesses
•Public health clinics (state and local) Ans✓✓✓ - mostly immunizations, well-
checks, STD screening and education
•Registered nurses (n = 2,951,960)
•Health practitioner support technologists and technicians (n = 801,590)
•Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses (n = 701,690)
•Therapists (n = 687,790)—occupational, physical, radiation, respiratory, exercise
+ Ans✓✓✓ The largest occupations in Practitioners and Technical Occupations
•Rehabilitation and chronic disease Ans✓✓✓ •Handicapped or disabled
individuals requiring restorative and adjustive services