SELF-LEARNING MODULE

GRADE 10

QUARTER 4
WEEK 4
HEALTH
A. Discusses the components and steps in making a personal
health career plan
MOST ESSENTIAL B. Prepares a personal health career following the prescribed
components and step
LEARNING
C. Explores the various health career paths selects a particular
COMPETENCIES
health career pathway based on personal competence and
interest; participates in a health career orientation program
TO THE LEARNERS • Health Career
• Pathways Disease prevention and control (Public health)
• Personal health care
• Maternal and Child care
• Mental health
• Occupational health and safety

A. Components And Steps In Making A Personal Health

Career Plan
TOPICS B. Personal Health Career Plan
(Preparation stage)
C. Health Career Pathways
D. Pathways Disease Prevention And Control (Public
Health)
• Personal Health Care
• Maternal And Child
• Care And Mental Health
• Occupational Health And Safety

EXPECTATION
At the end of this module, you are expected to:

a. Discuss the importance of health career planning;

b. Identify the components and steps in making a personal health career.
c. prepare a personal health career following the prescribed components and steps in
making a health career plan.
d. explore the various health career paths and selects particular health career pathway
based on personal competence and interest; and
e. participate in a health career orientation program.
f. identify the various health career paths;
g. discuss the role and importance of these health careers

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 BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Components and Steps in Making a Personal Health Career Plan

Planning for a healthcare career in healthcare is more important now than

ever. The way healthcare workers care for patients is changing, and this affects what
jobs are available, how competitive they are, and what you need to do to prepare
yourself for a healthcare career. Writing and following a career plan provides a sense
of purpose and direction. Instead of bouncing aimlessly from job to job, you will know
exactly where you are heading. A comprehensive career plan considers your
interests, aptitudes, skills, values, goals, and priorities. Charting your future can be an
exciting undertaking. You never know what might be possible down the road, until
you start exploring your potential. A career is an occupation or profession that
requires special training. Health Careers is designed to familiarize students with the
various careers in the medical profession and allied health services while Health
Career Planning refers to an individual’s plan to make a career choice, growing in
the chosen career or making a career shift.

MY HEALTH CAREER PLAN

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 the healthcare industry, problem-solving, decision making, accepting personal
responsibility, and self-management.

These are the components and steps in making a health career plan:

1. Self-Assessment -Discover your 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 by listing the pros and cons,
comparing your strengths and interests, and deciding which career fulfills both
current and future goals.

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.

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 HEALTH: HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS

Health Career Planning refers to

CAREER- is an
occupation or an individual’s plan to make a
profession that career choice, growing in a chosen
requires special career or making a career shift.
training.

Health Careers are designed to familiarize students

with the various careers in the medical profession and
allied health service. 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, and cultural considerations in
healthcare industry, problem solving, decision making,
accepting personal responsibility and self-
management.

HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS are clusters

occupations that are grouped because of shared
skills. It includes a variety of occupations that
require different levels of education, skills and
training. Selecting a career pathway provides you
with an area of focus, along with flexibility and a
variety of ideas to pursue for personal
development.

Makes it easier for you to

identify health career
Why do you need
to understand
Health Career Assists you in choosing a
health career.
pathways?

Helps you develop a plan on

how to prepare for your
chosen health career.

EXAMPLES OF HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS

1. Disease Prevention and Control 7. Drug Prevention and Control

2. Personal Healthcare 8. Nutrition
3. Maternal and Child Care 9. Health Education
4. Mental Healthcare 10. Dental health
5. Community Healthcare 11. Occupational Safety
6. Environmental Healthcare 12. Emergency Medical Services
Management

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 Examples of Health Career Pathways

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, health care of pregnant women and
their children, and improvement of the health delivery system through advocacy, education, and research.

Sample Careers:

• Midwifery
• Community Health Educator
• Outreach Specialist
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 of red flags of learning disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety,
mood disorders, stress, and bullying.

Sample Careers:

• Social Worker
• Clinical Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Guidance Counselling
Occupational Safety

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

Sample Careers

• Occupational Health and Safety Technician

• Health Inspector
• Industrial Hygienist

ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 1: ARE YOU HEADING TOWARDS YOUR GOAL?

Direction: Picture Association: Identify the components and steps in making a health career plan
based on the given pictures below. Write your answer to the space provided below the picture.

https://bit.ly/3akJ828 https://bit.ly/32vWHHm

1._______________________ 2. ________________________

https://bit.ly/3eirIUM https://bit.ly/2RBN4Vt
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 3._______________________ 4._________________________

ACTIVITY 2: FOR SUCCESS, CHOOSE THE BEST!

Direction: Identify the scenario that matches the description to the components and steps in making a health career plan.
Write your answer inside the clouds if it is Self – assessment, Career Exploration, Decision Making, or Plan of Action.

I love taking care the old age, because my grandmother took

care of me when I was a kid, now that she is old, I am paying
back her kindness. I also took care of her when she was in the
hospital.

I will decide to continue my education, acquiring knowledge,

and keeping my values, attitudes to pursue my career.

I prefer the community service because I want to help the

needy and less fortunate persons found in remote areas or
barangay.

I will study hard, reaching my goal, practice being efficient

and effective, and stay healthy and fit, the key for my health
care ambition.

Based on Activities 1 & 2, what are the things that you can consider in making your health career
plan?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________
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ACTIVITY 2
MY HEALTH CAREER PLAN
My Career Goal/s:

1. Self-Assessment
What are my skills and interests?
___________________________________________________________________
2. Career Exploration
What health careers do I want to explore?
___________________________________________________________________
What will I do to explore the different health careers?
___________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Decision-Making
What health career will I choose based on my skills and interests? _______________________________
What do I need to consider? __________________________________________________________________

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4. My Plan of Action
What will I do to meet my goals? ______________________________________________________________

ACTIVITY 3
Activity # 1: MATCH-PATH!
Directions: Match the Healthcare Pathways (Column B) in each Healthcare Career (Column
A)
A B

____ 1. Dental Nursing a. Emerging Medical Services

____ 2. Midwifery b. Nutrition
____ 3. Nutritionist c. Community Healthcare
____ 4. Barangay Health Worker d. Maternal Health and Childcare
____ 5. Paramedic e. Dental Health

Activity # 2: CAREER DRESS-UP!

Directions: Choose a Career Pathway in any Medical field that should be of interest and
Dress-Up like them (Ex. Nurse, Doctor, or Medical Technologist). Then, explain or write a short
description on “Why you choose that career and how it will help our situation nowadays”.
Document your work in a video or picture presentation and send it via the Messenger
platform to your teacher.

RUBRIC

Assessment Criteria Poor Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Outstanding

(1-5 pts) (6-10 pts) (11-15 pts) (16-20 pts)
Relevance of the Dress-up does not Dress-up are creative Dress-up support the Dress-up make real the
chosen Career Dress- seem to relate to the but are somewhat out portrayed career portrayed career
up topic. of place relative to the relevant to the topic relevant to the topic
(20 pts) topic
Resourcefulness Unable to display the Attempts to identify Identifies obvious Identifies a wide range
(20 pts) ability to tap various sources, but with sources for an of sources for a
sources in the limited success acceptable career complete career dress-
preferred dress-up dress-up up
Posture/Presentation Require large Attempts to show good Show good posture Show graceful posture
(20 pts) improvement in posture but unable to and appropriately and properly present the
posture and dress-up appropriately present the chosen chosen career dress-up
presentation present the chosen career dress-up with confidence and
career dress-up style.
Creativity in Video Create low-quality Create low video Provide standard Provide exceptional
(ICT) Presentation video and incomplete quality but with video quality with video quality with
(20 pts) details of the chosen complete details of the creative graphic creative graphic design
career dress-up chosen career dress-up design and complete and amazing effects with
presentation presentation details of the chosen complete details of the
career dress-up chosen career dress-up
presentation presentation

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 Demonstrate self- Cannot explain what Attempts to explain Demonstrates good Demonstrates a good
knowledge in making makes them suited for what makes them self-knowledge. Has a self-knowledge and is
health-related career the career they have suitable for their realistic able to explain their
paths. selected. chosen career field. i.e. understanding of why career choice in a
(20 pts) However, the career have selected the detailed and insightful
field selected is career field they have way.
unrealistic. chosen

ACTIVITY 4

ACTIVITY 1

Classify the health career to what pathway it belongs. Write your answer in the table below.

Maternal and Child Care Mental HealthCare Occupational Safety

1. Social Worker

2. Health Inspector

3. Midwifery

4. Psychiatry

5. Industrial Hygienist

ACTIVITY 2

Write the importance of each health career pathway.

1. Maternal and Child Care

______________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Mental Health Care

______________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Occupation Safety

______________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________

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 REMEMBER

COMPONENTS AND STEPS IN MAKING A HEALTH CAREER PLAN

• Self – assessment
Discover your strengths through self – assessments (values, interests, personality,
testing, skills, etc.)
• Career Exploration
You can explore different careers and work environments through career fairs,
online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional resources.
• Decision Making
Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you can evaluate and
narrow down your options by listing the pros and cons, comparing your strengths and
interests, and deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals.
• 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.

• Self-Assessment -Discover your strengths through self-assessments (values, interests,

personality, testing, skills, etc.)
• Career Exploration -You can explore different careers and work environments through
career fairs, online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional
resources
• Decision Making -Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you can
evaluate and narrow down your options by listing the pros and cons, comparing your
strengths and interests, and deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals.
• 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.

Choosing a career is not an easy thing to do. A healthcare career offers a good salary and job
security. Educational learning is widely available in the country with a path for advancement
in different specialized fields of interest. You get to work with people and most importantly
make a difference in the life of others. Components and Steps in Making a Health Career Plan
includes Self-Assessment, Career Exploration, Decision Making and Plan of Action

Maternal and Child Care

Health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children, and their
families.

Mental HealthCare

Medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships

and life skills.

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Occupational Safety

Careers in this path are related to the safety, health, and welfare of the people engaged in
work or employment.

CHECK YOUR
UNDERSTANDING
Before I move on to the next module, I will assure you that…
I understand…
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I will apply for the lesson in…
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I will practice…
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