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D. Estimates of the Current Supply of Personnel in 10 Allied Health Fields
D. Estimates of the Current Supply of Personnel in 10 Allied Health Fields
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For example, in fields in which holding multiple jobs is not common, the BLS data closely approximate the number of people working in the field. In addition, professional associations collect data on both the number of qualified practitioners and the number of practitioners active in the field.
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. BLS defines dietitians as people who "organize, plan, and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in Ethel promotion of health and control of disease." Dietitians "may administer activities of a department providing quantity food service" and "may plan, organize, and conduct programs in nutritional research." The American Hospital Association's 1985 annual survey indicated that there were 14,993 full- and part-time dietitians employed in U.S.
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perform specialized procedures in such areas as cytology, histology, and microbiology." Their "duties may include supervising and coordinating activities of workers engaged in laboratory testing and include workers who teach medical technology when teaching is not their primary activity." Medical and clinical laboratory technicians are defined as persons who "perform routine tests in medical laboratories for use in treatment and diagnosis of disease." They "prepare vaccines, biologicals, and serums for prevention of disease" and "prepare tissue samples for pathologists, take blood samples, and execute such laboratory tests as urinalysis and blood counts." Laboratory technicians "may work under the general supervision of a medical laboratory technologist." Although BLS collects separate data for the two categories of laboratory personnel, the data are combined for reporting purposes. It is difficult to estimate the ratio of technologists to technicians.
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If, as indicated by the American Medical Record Association 1986 membership survey, approximately 73 percent of all medical record administrators work in acute care facilities, we can extrapolate from the American Hospital Association data to determine the total number of persons employed as medical record administrators: 10,464. If this is the case, more than 20 percent of people filling medical record administrator jobs must be unregistered because the American Medical Record Association reported only 8,240 registered medical record administators in 1987.
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Radiologic Technologists and Technicians According to BLS estimates, there were 115,429 jobs for radiologic technologists and technicians in 1986. The OES defines radiologic technologists as persons who "take x-rays, CAT scans, or administer non-radioactive materials into Lal patient's blood stream for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes." Hospitals were asked to include in the category of radiologic technologist all workers whose primary duties were to demonstrate portions of the human body on x-ray film or fluoroscopic screens.
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If approximately 89 percent of all nuclear medicine technologists work in hospitals, the American Hospital Association data suggest that the total number of nuclear medicine technologists employed in 1985 was about 9,000, which is in close agreement with the BLS estimate. The Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board reported 10,298 certified technologists in August 1987.
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Ninety-two percent of certified practitioners are members of the association. Although basic occupational preparation is at the master's level, persons holding only a bachelor's degree in speech pathology and audiology are employed in some settings and may be considered a part of the labor supply.
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