Health Career

The purpose of this paper is for students to research, learn, and write about specific elements of a health care worker’s career. For this paper, you will explore different areas of your health care career:
1) Job Description
2) Education/Registration/Certification 3) Job Outlook and Employment
4) Professional Activities
To this end, you will conduct a personal interview with a Health Care Professional of your choice in order to get an “inner-view” into this career. Your paper will conclude with a reflection section where you write out your short-term and long-term personal career plan in narrative form.
You will be graded on certain elements for each section, so make sure to understand and carefully follow the scoring rubric for this paper as well as the information in this document. The Miami Dade College Medical Campus Library has resources which can assist you with your research and citing needs.

The required format is APA 7th edition
 The paper is to be neat and well organized using correct spelling and grammar.
It is highly recommended to use Microsoft Word.
 Students should use the information and resources located on the
MDC Learning Resources Website at https://libraryguides.mdc.edu/hsc0003. There you will click on the corresponding tabs for each section of the paper to find resources. You will also find a tab for APA 7th edition information and a
Word Template for you to use for this paper.
 A Cover Page
 All pages are numbered
 Body of the paper is one to two paragraphs per section
 Length of the body of the paper is three to four pages
 Times New Roman 12-point font
 One inch margins, double-space, left justification
 No lists, bullets, graphics, tables or pictures
 Work is to be expressed in paragraph form only
 Reference Page
o The title is References not Works Cited or Bibliography
o Indicate the exact source of the specific information used in the paper by
citing all references on the reference page. Don’t neglect to include the
in-text citations as well.
o Only references cited in the paper (the in-text citations) are to be
included on the reference page. o Include a minimum of 5 different sources of information (books, professional journal articles, electronic sources, websites, etc.).
o Wikipedia is not acceptable as a reference

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