Health Information Management professionals HW
Health Information Management professionals HW
Health Information Management professionals have a plethora of career opportunities. As you think about your future career as a Health Information Technician, what do you see are your possibilities? This assignment will allow you to explore possible career paths as a Health Information Technician.
Follow these steps to complete this assignment:
Go to the AHIMA Career Map
Click on Featured Career Paths along the bottom of the table
Select Path 5. You will see six careers mapped for you as a Health Information Technician.
Explore these six careers.
Select one of the management careers that interests you – Chief Learning Officer, Regional Director of HIM, Director of HIM, or Manager of HIM.
For the career that interest you, answer the following questions in a 1-2 page paper.
What is the title of this career?
What are the job responsibilities?
What skills are needed for this position?
What draws you to this career possibility?
How do you anticipate this course will help you prepare for the job you have selected?
How would you map your career to achieve this career?
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.