- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who directs administration of hospital, nursing home, or other health care facility within authority of governing board. Responsibilities include:
* Administers fiscal operations, such as budget planning, accounting, and establishing rates for health care services.
* Directs hiring and training of personnel.
* Negotiates for improvement of and additions to buildings and equipment.
* Directs and coordinates activities of medical, nursing, and administrative staffs and services.
* Develops policies and procedures for various establishment activities.
* May represent establishment at community meetings and promote programs through various news media.
* May develop or expand programs or services for scientific research, preventive medicine, medical and vocational rehabilitation, and community health and welfare promotion.
* May be designated according to type of health care facility as Hospital Administrator or Nursing Home Administrator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles settlement data and submits checks, drafts, and other items to clearinghouse association for exchange and settlement with other banks. Responsibilities include:
* Sorts items into bundles, lists items, and totals amounts, using adding machine or calculator.
* Posts totals to clearinghouse settlement sheet.
* Mails or delivers items to clearinghouse.
* Accepts items from clearinghouse that have been drawn on own bank and posts totals on settlement sheet.
* Totals debit and credit columns and computes net balance.
* Submits sheet to clearinghouse for verification.
* May maintain telephone contact with bank personnel and others to locate missing checks, correct errors, and reconcile differences in records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reviews rates for conformity to regulations, and compiles data pertaining to operating costs, revenues, and volume of gas or electric power. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews reports of changes in gas or consumption and complaints about high bills.
* Reviews rate investigation reports, analyses of billings, and rate assignments for completeness and conformity to regulation.
* Reviews special rate accounts to determine changes which will benefit customer.
* Compiles data for reports pertaining to costs, revenues, and volumes of gas or electricity consumed.
* Draws graphs and charts to illustrate changing trends, using drafting instruments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists patients and their families with personal and environmental difficulties which predispose illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care. Responsibilities include:
* Works in close collaboration with physicians and other health care personnel in patient evaluation and treatment to further their understanding of significant social and emotional factors underlying patient's health problem.
* Helps patient and family through individual or group conferences to understand, accept, and follow medical recommendations.
* Provides service planned to restore patient to optimum social and health adjustment within patient's capacity.
* Utilizes community resources to assist patient to resume life in community or to learn to live within limits of disability.
* Prepares patient histories, service plans, and reports.
* Participates in planning for improving health services by interpreting social factors pertinent to development of program.
* Provides general direction and supervision to workers engaged in clinic home service program activities.
* Works in general hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, drug and alcohol abuse centers, or related health programs.
* May be employed as consultant in other agencies.
* Usually required to have knowledge and skill in casework methods acquired through degree program at school of social work.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines academic records of students to determine eligibility for graduation or for admission to college, university, or graduate school. Responsibilities include:
* Compares transcripts of courses with school entrance or degree requirements and prepares evaluation form listing courses for graduation.
* Studies course prerequisites, degree equivalents, and accreditation of schools, and computes grade-point averages to establish students' qualifications for admission, transfer, or graduation.
* Explains evaluations to students.
* Refers students with academic discrepancies to proper department heads for further action.
* Types list of accepted applicants or of degree candidates and submits it for approval.
* Issues registration permits and records acceptances and fees paid.
* Performs related duties, such as preparing commencement programs and computing student averages for honors.
* May advise students concerning their eligibility for teacher certificates.
* May specialize in evaluation of transfer students' records and be designated Evaluator, Transfer Students.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages ice or roller skating rink and coordinates activities of workers engaged in selling admission tickets, issuing skates to patrons, and enforcing skating rules and regulations on floor. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes hours that rink is open for business.
* Plans and initiates promotional projects to advertise establishment.
* Arranges private parties.
* Purchases skates and skating supplies.
* Sells skates and skating supplies to patrons.
* Keeps record of budget.
* Arranges for individual or group skating instruction.
* Inspects building to detect need for maintenance.
* Inspects floor to determine need for resanding or for scraping of ice.
* May repair broken skates.
* May be designated according to type of rink managed as Manager, Ice-Skating Rink; Manager, Roller-Skating Rink.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who radiographs metal, plastics, concrete, or other materials, such as castings, sample parts, pipes, and structural members for flaws, cracks, or presence of foreign materials, utilizing knowledge of radiography equipment, techniques, and procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Aligns object on stand between source of x rays and film or plate; or aligns source of gamma rays, such as cobalt or iridium isotope and film or plate on opposite sides of object, manually or using hand or electric truck, chain hoist, or crane.
* Masks peripheral areas with lead shields.
* Selects type of radiation source and type of film, and applies standard mathematical formulas to determine exposure distance and time, considering size, mobility, and strength of radiation sources in relation to density and mobility of object.
* Verifies radiation intensities, using radiation meters.
* Adjusts controls of x-ray equipment on console or exposes source of radioactivity to take radiograph.
* Removes and develops film or plate.
* Monitors working area, using survey meters, to protect personnel area.
* May replace radioactive isotope source in containers by manipulating tongs from behind protective lead shield.
* Marks defects appearing on film and assists in analyzing findings.
* May specialize in x-ray work and be designated X-Ray Technician.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who exchanges coins for customer's paper money in slot machine area of gambling establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Walks and carries money belt in assigned section to exchange size and value of coins desired by customers.
* Listens for jackpot alarm bell, issues payoffs, and obtains customer's signature on receipt when winnings exceed amount contained in machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates various activities of personnel engaged in installing and maintaining municipal emergency and business radio communications equipment, and in operating police, fire, or other municipal radio transmitters. Responsibilities include:
* Ensures that government regulations concerning installation and operation of municipal radio stations are complied with.
* Participates in operation, testing, and development of all types of police, fire, or other municipal communication systems.
* Submits required reports to designated authorities concerning communications equipment status, such as nature of business transacted over radio station, character of radio repairs made or needed, and general condition of municipal communications system.
* Confers with municipal authorities for approval of major capital investments needed in establishing and maintaining system.
* Cooperates with fire, weather station, and civil defense authorities to originate or relay emergency messages.
* In communities where equipment is used primarily for police broadcasts, may be a police officer and be designated according to rank as Radio-Division Captain; Radio-Division Lieutenant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who instructs student pilots in flight procedures and techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Accompanies students on training flights and demonstrates techniques for controlling aircraft during taxiing, takeoff, spins, stalls, turns, and landings.
* Explains operation of aircraft components, such as rudder, flaps, ailerons, compass, altimeter, and tachometer.
* May give student proficiency tests at termination of training.
* Is required to hold Commercial Pilot's Certificate, with Instructor's Rating, issued by Federal Aviation Administration.
Industry:Professional careers
