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2. What Is a Community Health Worker? - WebMD

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   Community health workers are public health workers. Their goal is to connect communities with their health care systems and state health departments. Community health worker (CHW) is an umbrella ...

3. Health professional - Wikipedia

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   Health professional. A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) [1] is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. The field includes those who work as a nurse, physician (such as family physician, internist, obstetrician, psychiatrist, radiologist ...

4. List of healthcare occupations - Wikipedia

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   Emergency Physician Assistant. Emergency Nurse Practitioner. Flight Nurse. Certified Emergency Nursing Assistant. Certified Emergency Registered Nurse. Certified Emergency Registered Respiratory Therapist. Emergency Medical Technician - Critical Care Paramedic. Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic.

5. What is a Registered Nurse? What They Do and How to Become One

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   Jeff Bergen/Getty Images. There are many different types of nurses, but registered nurses (RNs) are often considered the backbone of the nursing system. Registered nurses can work in any specialty ...

6. Allied health professions - Wikipedia

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   Allied health professions (AHPs) are a group of health care professions that provide a range of diagnostic, technical, therapeutic, and support services in connection with health care, and which are distinct from the fields of dentistry, optometry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy. In providing care as an AHP, their work may support non-AHP ...

7. What's Causing the American Nursing Shortage? - Healthline

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   Unfortunately, that also means a shortage creates several challenges, such as: Nurse burnout. Burnout is both a cause and symptom of the nursing shortage. Understaffed nursing units increase the ...

8. Racial Bias in Healthcare: How Disparities Affect Communities ...

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   Whether implicit or otherwise, racial bias is evident in almost every area of healthcare, says Andrea Heyward, Director of the Community Health Worker Institute at the Center for Community Health ...

9. Community health worker - Wikipedia

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   A community health extension worker (CHEW) is a specially trained professional who provides similar preventive, curative and rehabilitative health care and services to people where they live and work. CHEW are trained for three years and they graduate with a diploma, while the JCHEW are trained for two years and graduate with a certificate.