Practical Thinking Assignment: Choosing a Health Profession
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to use various functions in Word, perform research into the health profession of your choice, reference any articles used properly, and answer the series questions below.
Task
Dental hygiene is the career program choice please answer the following question according to this choice
A. In your own words, what is a health professional?
B. List three qualities that a health professional must have in order to be successful in their career.
C. List three qualities or behaviors that a health professional must not exhibit while working within their profession.
D. In your own words, define professional conduct.
E. Provide two examples of ways to increase your professionalism?
F. Identify the career program that you would most like to enter into after your year in pre-health science and why you want that program (e.g. Respiratory Therapy, Paramedics, Dental Hygiene, etc.).
G. List three Canadian schools that offer your main career program choice and which of the schools would be your top choice to attend?
H. Determine if a professional association exists for your main career choice. List the name of the association (if there is a national and provincial one - list both) and include their website address.
I. In your own words, what is the mandate or purpose of that association that you just previously described (i.e. this is often found on their website)?