Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Regional Office IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

Zest for Progress

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I. What I Know

Concept Mapping
A. List as many words associated with the word “Health Career”

DOCTOR

HEALTH CAREER

What’s In

Activity 1: EXPLORING CAREERS IN THE HEALTH FIELD

A. How many allied health professions are you familiar with? Arrange the scrambled words
on the left column of the table and write your answer in the right column.

1. GOOSTLUIDAI
2. WDIFMIE
3. ENRSU
4. CRAEMPIDA
5. GOOSTLUIDAI
B. Label the health and allied health professionals present in the picture.

1. nurse 2.
7.

3.

6.

4.

5.
What Is It

What is a career?

A career is an occupation or profession that requires special training.

Health Careers are designed to familiarize students with the various careers in the
medical profession and allied health services. Students will learn skills necessary for their
career path, which in this case is in healthcare. These include working with others,
communication skills, legal and ethical responsibilities, cultural considerations in industry,
problem solving, decision making, accepting personal responsibility, and self-management.
Health Career Planning refers to an individual’s plan to make a career choice,
growing in the chosen career or making a career shift. Career planning involves the very
important step of self-assessment.
Self-assessment is necessary to understand one’s capabilities and drawbacks. The
various career options should be explored in detail to find a fit between one’s abilities and
the opportunities provided by a career option. It involves continuous learning and
improvement to build and grow in the chosen career path.

YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN

PEOPLE’S
LIVES
• Good salary
• Job Security
Why pursue a health career?
• Do work that interests you

• Find a health career that fits your

educational plans
• A clear path to advancement
• Work with people (or not)

What are the components and steps in making a health career plan?

1. Self--Assessment
Discover your personal strengths through self-assessments
(values, interests, personality, testing, skills, etc.
2. Career Exploration
You can explore different careers and work environments
through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships,
alumni connections, professional resources

3. Decision Making
Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you
can evaluate and narrow down your options through listing the
pros and cons, comparing your personal strengths and
interests, and decide in which career fulfills both current and
future goals.

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4. Plan of Action
Plan achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your
goals, organize your goals into smaller steps, identify actions for
each step, utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt
your plan regularly
What’s More

Activity 1: MY HEALTH CAREER PLAN

Directions: Write your own health career plan using the following components and steps.

MY HEALTH CAREER PLAN

My Career Goal/s:
Self- Assessment

What are my skills and interests?

Career Exploration

What health careers do I want to explore?

What will I do to explore the different health careers?

Decision- Making

What health career will I choose based on my skills and interests?

What do I need to consider?

My Plan of Action

What will I do to meet my goals/s?

ACTIVITY 2: PRELIMINARY HEALTH CAREER PLAN

Directions: Write your preliminary health career plan using the guidelines below.

Guidelines to Help you Plan and develop your Health

Career Plan

➢ What are my short-term and long-term education and career

goals?

➢ Why did I choose these goals?

➢ What education/training is required for me to achieve my goals?

➢ What institutions or facilities provide this training?

➢ Which institution or facility is most appropriate to my interests,

lifestyle, and preferences? Why?

➢ What courses will I take during grades 11 and 12 to prepare me

for my education or training?

➢ What co-curricular, volunteer, or community experiences will

help me achieve my goals?

➢ What do I have to do to achieve my goals? • (e.g., save money,

get work experience)

➢ What are the potential challenges I may face in the achievement

of my goals?

➢ What will I do to meet these challenges?

➢ What is my timeline (e.g., 2 years, 5 years, 10 years) for

achieving my goals?

➢ How will I monitor my success as I work to achieve my goals

over the next years?

➢ Seek advice from at least one person (e.g., a parent, another

student, a counsellor, and a mentor)
What Can I do

Activity 1: HEALTH CAREER INFOGRAPHIC

What is info graphic?
-a visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information
quickly and clearly.

Assessment:
Directions: Write the letter of your answer on the space provided before the number.
1. What occupation or profession requires special training?
A. Career B. Health Assessment C. Health career D Health Career Planning

2. What individual plan refers to making a career choice, growing in the

chosen career or making a career shift?
A. Career B. Health Assessment C. Health Career D Health Career Planning
3. What refers to understanding one’s capabilities and drawbacks?
A. Career B. Career Planning C. Health assessment D. Self- assessment
4. It is a step of career planning where you need to explore different careers and work
environments through career fairs, online research meeting, etc?
A. Career exploration B. Decision-making C. Plan of action D. Self- assessment
5. In this step, you need to evaluate and narrow down your options through listing
the pros and cons.
A. Career exploration B. Decision-making C. Plan of action D. Self- assessment

Directions: Write on this page your preliminary health career plan. Use the guide questions to make you
plan.
1. What are your skills and interests?
2. What health career do you want to explore?
3. What will you do to explore the different health careers?
4. What do you need to consider?
5. What will you do to meet your goals?

What Is It

Examples of health career pathways

1. Disease Prevention and Control

People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-
communicable diseases. Their work includes immunization, screening of newborns, promotion of
breastfeeding, infant diseases prevention, adolescent healthcare, and life skills.

Sample Careers:
• Community Health Work
• Education and Research

2. Personal Healthcare
Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level. These
include monitoring patients; administering and assisting in personal care and hygiene;
performing housekeeping duties; and advising clients on related healthcare issues like infant
care, hygiene and nutrition.

3. Maternal and Child Care

These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children
and their families. These include providing information on reproductive health,
family planning, healthcare of pregnant women and their children, and improvement of health
delivery system through advocacy, education and research.

Sample Careers:
• Midwifery
• Community Health Educator
• Outreach Specialist
4. Mental HealthCare

These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal

relationships and life skills. These include cognitive and psychosocial development, promotion of
healthy self-esteem through feelings and anger management and identifying warning signs or red
flags of learning disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, stress, and bullying.

Sample Careers:
• Social Work
• Clinical Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Guidance Counselling

5. Community Healthcare

Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement health of
all community members.
Sample Careers:
• Barangay/Community Health Work
• Rural Sanitary Inspection

6. Environmental Healthcare Management

These health workers try to establish the correlation between and among the physical,
chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment. These
include monitoring the quality of environment and impact of human activities on ecosystems,
and developing strategies for restoring ecosystems.

Sample Careers:
• Air quality monitoring
• Soil science analysis
• Hazardous and solid waste management
• Environmental noise control
• Radiological assessment

7. Drug Prevention and Control

People whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and individual
problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs and policy
advocacy.

Sample Careers:
• Drug Enforcement
• Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation

8. Nutrition
 Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and their
impact on patients’ health. These include meal planning, food preparation and economics.
Sample Careers:
• Clinical Dietetics
• Food and Nutrition Management
• Public Health Nutrition

9. Health Education

Those who work in this field are tasked with promotion of healthcare and training of health
workers on managing change in healthcare. Their work involves assessing individual and
community needs, planning, implementing and evaluating health programs, promoting the
understanding of various health-related behaviours plus coordinating health education services.
Sample Careers:
• Education and Research
• Community Health Work

10. Dental Health

Dental health workers deal with various oral conditions which include chronic mouth and
facial pain, oral sores, periodontal (gum) disease, tooth decay and tooth loss, other diseases and
disorders that affect the oral cavity, and risk factors for oral diseases which include unhealthy
diet, tobacco use, harmful alcohol use, and poor oral hygiene.

Sample Careers:
• Dental Hygiene
• Dental Nursing
• Dental health support

11. Occupational Safety

Careers in this path are related to the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work
or employment. These include protecting workers from sickness, disease, and injury arising from
possible hazards of their employment and workplace.

Sample Careers:
• Occupational Health and Safety Technician
• Health Inspector
• Industrial Hygienist

12. Emergency Medical Services

People assigned in this work specialize in out-of-hospital medical care. Their skills include
first-aid procedures, emergency medical treatment and transport of patients, rapid emergency
medical response and immediate medical attention.
Sample Careers:
• Emergency Medical Aid
• Paramedic
ASSESSMENT

Directions: Answer the following questions and identify the Health Career Pathways. Encircle
the letter of your chosen answer.

1. This career path specializes on communicable and non-communicable diseases. Which work
includes immunization, screening of newborn, promotion of breastfeeding, infant disease
prevention, adolescent healthcare, and life skills
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare

2. Professionals in this field perform healthcare-related tasks at a personal care level. These
include monitoring patients; administering and assisting in personal care and hygiene
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare

3. These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children and
their families. These include providing information on reproductive health, family planning,
healthcare of pregnant women and their children, and improvement of the health delivery
system through advocacy, education and research.
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare

4. These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal

relationships and life skills. These include cognitive and psychosocial development, promotion of
healthy self-esteem through feelings and anger management and identifying warning signs or
red flags of learning disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, stress, and bullying.
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare

5. Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement health of all
community members.
A. Community l HealthCare C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Disease Prevention and Control D. Personal Healthcare

B. Give 3 examples of Career in each pathways

1. Environmental Healthcare Management

a.
b.
c.

2. Drug Prevention and Control

a.
b.
 c.
3. Nutrition
a.
b.
c.
4. Dental Health
a.
b.
c.
5. Emergency Medical Services
a.
b.
c.

What is It

A Health Career Plan is an individual action or initiative in making career choice, in

growing in chosen career or in making a career shift which involves a very important
discernment.

Similarly, Career planning involves four important steps which include: Self-
Assessment, Career Exploration, Decision Making, and Plan of Action.

Step 1. Self-Assessment. This is the first step in knowing the

health career that suits you. This step requires an honest evaluation
of yourself. It is necessary for you to know yourself. You need to
understand your capabilities and shortcomings.
The components of this step are your strengths, weaknesses,
interests, hobbies, personal experiences, family income, skills, and
competencies.
Step 2. Career Exploration. Exploring health career options
through different ways or methods is an essential step to choosing a
particular health career path to take. You can do this through
reading articles, browsing the net, attending fora, and meetings.
This stage is about knowing where to look and what to look for. It
refers to searching different careers and work environments that
suit you.
This step includes listing down of health career options,
conducting informational interview, job shadowing (on-the-job learning), job temping (short
term job), attending internship, and volunteering.
Step 3. Decision Making. Once you have assessed yourself
and explored the health career that you are interested to pursue,
you are now ready to make decisions. In this step, you need to
consider both current and future goals in life by narrowing down
your choices.
This step includes listing of pros and cons, comparing your
personal strengths and interests, choosing a specific health career
to pursue, considering suggestion of family, and
finally deciding a health career to take.
Step 4. Plan of Action. Now that you have chosen a health
career, you are now ready to make a career plan. At this point, you
will design your action plan or identify and organize the necessary
steps to achieve your desired goals.
This step includes designing a plan to reach health
career goals, identifying short-term and long-term goals, identifying
education and training requirements, developing job search
strategies, and creating road map considering
possible problems that may arise along the way.

There are ways to come-up with your Personal Health Career Plan. These are textual,
tabular, and graphical forms.
Graphical Form

PERSONAL HEALTH CAREER PLAN

Self-Assessment. (List down the components here such as your strengths,

weaknesses, talents, skills, interests, hobbies, family income, experiences
Step 1 and among others.)

Career Exploration. (List down components here such as your health career
options, the methods used to explore the chosen health career, environment or
Step 2 work description of the health career.)

Decision Making. (List down the components here such as pros and cons of the
chosen health career, reasons in choosing a specific
health career considering your personal competence and interests and the
Step 3 suggestions of family members or career experts.)

Plan of Action. (List down the components here such as chosen health career,
required education and training of the chosen health
career, identified short-term and long-term goals and strategies to solve
Step 4 problems that may arise pursuing your chosen health career.)

PERSONAL HEALTH CAREER PLAN

List down the List down the

components here components here like
such as strengths, methods to explore
weaknesses and the career.
interests. Self- Career
Assessment Exploration

PERSONAL HEALTH CAREER PLAN

Plan of Decision
Action Making

List down the List down the

components here components here like
such as short-term pros and cons of the
and long-term chosen health career
goals, etc.
Here is an example.

PERSONAL HEALTH CAREER PLAN OF GERALD AS A FUTURE NURSE

Self-Assessment - Evaluates abilities, the financial capabilities of his family,

future tasks, assignments, among others.
Step 1

Career Exploration - Searches the internet about the

environment and work conditions of being a nurse.
Step 2

Decision Making - To become an Operating Room Nurse.

Step 3

Plan of Action - To gather information on how to enroll in this course

including the school that offers the specific course.
Step 4

What’s More

Good job! Now that you have learned the

concepts about the components and steps of a
personal health career plan, let’s check how far
you have gone. Do the assessment activities.
Activity 2: Health Career Planning Word Hunt
Directions: Find the hidden words related to the components of health career planning then
identify what step will it fall. Write your answer in your activity notebook.

S T R E N G T H S J O L K G H P I Z
Q U S T R O L M I N Z X R T I C N L
P V S H O R T T E R M G O A L S T O
R I N W L A C E F H I K L M O P E R
O B D F E G H I K L O P Q U R E R T
S L I P L A N N I N G P U S T E N F
A O R E S L K Q U R V B O N F G S T
N M I K L U F N O L I K B N R T H H
D R U S G O Y U E F C X I Z S T I U
C O N H O B B I E S P R A E T E P T
O R I C G H O T R E S K R H R T S R
N O P I L K N I K L I E W H I E T E
S F G U E O T L U Q T U S O J Y B D
D S E R T U I L M N I G H E R T Y T
O R I C K L O P I E R D W E F E O U
Y T F R I G J O B S H A D O W I N G
F S T R A T E G I E S T R W O P C Y

1. - 6. -
2. - 7. -
3. - 8. -
4. - 9. -
5. - 10. -

Assessment 1: True or False

Directions: Read the following statements carefully then write TRUE if the statement is correct
and FALSE if it is not. Write your answers in your activity notebook.
1. One suggested activity under Plan of Action is narrowing down your health career options.
2. Skills and abilities are examples of components in Self-Assessment.
3. In Decision Making, you will identify necessary steps in realizing health career goals.
4. To explore health career, you may conduct interview or read health-related articles.
5. Attending to internship is a necessary activity in Plan of Action.
6. Self-assessment is a step which involves listing down of skills, abilities, strengths,
weaknesses, among others.
 7. Short-term and long-term health career goals are components under Plan of Action.
8. Listing down of pros and cons of chosen health career is a part of Decision Making.
9. You can discover and evaluate yourself through career exploration.
10. Plan of Action is the last step in making a health career plan.

Activity 3: Read then Organize

Directions: Read the following components inside the box then organize the words by
placing them in the appropriate step in making a health career plan in the given graphic
organizer that follows. Write your answers in your activity notebook.

Road Map Strengths Job Shadowing

Pros and cons Internship Phobia
Short-term goals Skills Interview
Reason to pursue health career Job Temping Health Career Options
Strategies Volunteering Abilities

• •

Self- Career
Assessment Exploration

Plan of Decision
Action Making

• •
 What I Have Learned

A health career is one of the fast-growing profession/vocation that a student must

consider. In order to be guided on what health career to pursue, you must know how to
make a health career plan. Health Career Planning refers to the process of creating an
individual’s plan to make a career choice, growing in the chosen career or making a career
shift. Career planning involves four important steps which are as follows: 1. Self-Assessment,
2. Career Exploration, 3. Decision Making, and 4. Plan of Action.

Each of the four steps in health career planning has components which you should
consider. Each component is essential in making a personal health career plan.

What I Can Do

LET’S EXPLORE!
Directions: Using the given graphic organizer below, write the different components and
steps in making a health career plan. Write a short discussion of the diagram highlighting
the process of making a health career plan. Do the activity in your activity notebook.

Step 1 List down the components here

Step 2 List down the components here

Step 3 List down the components here

Step 4 List down the components here

 Assessment

Posttest

Directions: Read each item carefully and write the letter of the best answer in your activity
notebook.
1. Vina is evaluating her strengths, weaknesses, skills and abilities. What step in health career
plan is she doing?
a. Self-assessment
b. Career exploration
c. Decision Making
d. Plan of Action

2. What is the second step in health career planning?

a. Self-assessment
b. Career exploration
c. Decision Making
d. Plan of Action

3. Christian planned to explore his health career options through on-the-job learning in a
nearby health center. Which of the following component of career exploration is exemplified?
a. Attending fora
b. Job shadowing
c. Job temping
d. Searching the net

4. Lyka searched the internet, listed down career options and attended internships and fora.
What other activities will you suggest to Lyka for Career Exploration?
a. Develop job search strategies
b. Design plan to reach career goals
c. Read articles about career options
d. Compare personal strengths and interests

5. Rudy had assessed himself and explored the health career that he is interested to pursue.
What step will he do next?
a. Self-assessment
b. Career exploration
c. Decision Making
d. Plan of Action
6. Which of the following is not a component of decision making in health career plan?
a. Listing down of pros and cons
b. Considering suggestion of family
c. Choosing a specific health career
d. Designing a plan to reach career goals

7. Linda would like to narrow down her choices to decide on what specific health career
will she pursue. What advise are you going to give to Linda?
a. Evaluate skills and abilities
b. Consider suggestion of family
c. List down health career options
d. Design plans to achieve career goals

8. The following are the components of plan of action in health career plan, except
a. Identifying short-term and long-term goals
b. Narrowing down your health career options
c. Designing a plan to reach health career goals
d. Identifying education and training requirements

9. Joseph is at the last step in creating his health career plan. Which of the
following components should be considered?
a. Considering hobbies and interests
b. Conducting informational interviews
c. Choosing a specific health career to pursue
d. Creating road map towards health career goals

10. Which of the following is not a form of presenting a Personal Health Career Plan?
a. Graphical Form
b. Pictorial Form
c. Tabular Form
d. Textual Form