MEDICAL & HEALTH PROFESSIONALS – SOCIAL WORK – CARERS

Doctors (Medical practitioners) including International Doctors or Specialists play a critical role in providing high-quality health care for Australians and are responsible for:

• diagnosing and treating physical and mental illnesses, disorders and injuries
• recommending preventative action
• referring patients to specialists, other health care workers, and social, welfare and support workers.

Enrolled Nurse

An Enrolled nurses (who is eligible to become a Registered Nurse) works under the supervision of a registered nurse. Typical duties include:

• regularly recording patients’ temperature, pulse, blood pressure and respiration
• providing interventions, treatments and therapies from patient care plans (including administering medicines)
• assisting registered nurses and other team members with health education activities
• working in multidisciplinary teams; and

Registered Nurse

A Registered nurses scope of practice can include:

• assessing patients
• developing a nursing care plan
• administering medicines
• providing specialised nursing care
• working in multidisciplinary teams
• supervising ENs and junior RNs
• undertaking regular professional development
• performing leadership and management roles such as being a nursing unit manager or team leader
• working in advanced nursing practice roles.

Midwife

A midwife may practise and give the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, birth and the first few weeks after birth including;

• providing health support, care and advice to women before conception, and during pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period
• promoting natural childbirth and identifying complications for the woman and her baby
• consulting with other health professionals and referring to medical care or other health professions when required
• implementing emergency measures.

Social Worker

Social Work emphasizes the wellbeing and building of relationships with individuals, families, and communities and linking the local with the global. It explores social care, health and wellness programs and initiatives that seek to locate and create systems and relationships that are preventative and educative in nature that also;

• Increases your sense of well-being and social growth on an individual and collective level
• Addresses interpersonal and personal conflicts
• Enhances and enables the participation within a larger society
• Identifies and eliminate systemic barriers to full recognition and involvement and
• Safeguards the weak against injustice and abuse

Dental Specialist – Orthodontist – Periodontist

These professionals are really high in demand in Australia.

Dentists specialise in oral health and in general, the following areas will be covered by them:

• Conducting oral health assessments and examinations to diagnose oral diseases and conditions.
• Performing clinical treatments and surgical procedures to the teeth, bone and soft tissues of the oral cavity in order to restore, remove, fix, replace, realign and resolve issues with the teeth, or with the form or function of the mouth.

Other related roles in the field of dentistry are;

• Dental Specialist
• Dental Hygienist
• Dental Prosthetist
• Orthodontist
• Periodontist
• Dental Technician
• Dental Therapist
• Dental Assistant

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