Exploring Health And Medical Careers
Course Description
Exploring Health and Medical Careers is a comprehensive study of the skills needed toward becoming competent and productive health care workers with an emphasis on employable skills such as team work, effective communication, professionalism and medical ethics. Additionally, students will explore the lifesaving techniques, personal health issues, body systems, effects of disease and research and data collection skills necessary for medical professionals. From there, students move on to an overview of careers in health care and detailed profiles of the most in-demand professions. This course is the base introductory course for the Health Academy Program and gives students credit for the Health Science graduation requirement.
Tatsuwa
One of the Health Academy Houses
Anatamage Table
Students learn human anatomy
Field Day
Gaagii doing the Balloon Race
Student learning outcomes
Students will be able to express needs, wants, and emotions in positive ways
Students will explain the value of managing personal health behaviors.
Students will explore the variety of professionals who work with people to maintain optimum physical health
Student will differentiate between positive and negative stressors
Students will research mental, emotional, and social health topics
Students will understand the cross-disciplinary skills and careers.
Students will understand the influences that have shaped today’s health care system, diverse roles of health care professionals, and current health care trends
Students will be able to describe and compare the importance of health care economics, including payment methods, cost containment and resource management.
Students will discuss the importance of health care economics, including payment methods, cost containment and resource management
Students will understand what HOSA: Future Health Professionals is and identify resources and opportunities provided through HOSA membership through completion of a HOSA Competitive Event
Students will learn professional skills and demonstrate them through their behavior and actions throughout the year
Students will be able to apply Mathematics to healthcare as well as use basic medical terminology
Students will be exposed to various health fields and careers
Students will be able to demonstrate safety practices to apply in the healthcare facility and at home
Topics Covered
Unit 1 Personal Health
Mental, Emotional & Social Health
Nutrition, Diets & Physical Activity
Human Growth & Development
Alcohol, Tobacco, & other Drugs
Sexual Health
Basic Anatomy
Unit 2: Introduction to Health Care
History & Trends
Health Care Systems
Unit 3: Introduction to HOSA
Unit 4: Professional Skills
Unit 5: Health Care Workplace Skills
Medical math
Medical terminology basics
disease transmission
body mechanics
Unit 6: Health Career Profiles
Unit 7: Community Health
Promotion of Safety & Injury Prevention
Infection Control
Geriatric Care
Knowing Your Community
Patient care standards
Anchor Standards
2.0 Communications
Acquire and accurately use Health Science and Medical Technology sector terminology and protocols at the career and college readiness level for communicating effectively in oral, written, and multimedia formats.
3.0 Career Planning and Management
Integrate multiple sources of career information from diverse formats to make informed career decisions, solve problems, and manage personal career plans.
6.0 Health and Safety
Demonstrate health and safety procedures, regulations, and personal health practices and determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and domain-specific words and phrases as related to the Health Science and Medical Technology sector workplace environment.
7.0 Responsibility and Flexibility
Initiate, and participate in, a range of collaborations demonstrating behaviors that reflect personal and professional responsibility, flexibility, and respect in the Health Science and Medical Technology sector workplace environment and community settings.
9.0 Leadership and Teamwork
Work with peers to promote divergent and creative perspectives, effective leadership, group dynamics, team and individual decision making, benefits of workforce diversity, and conflict resolution as practiced in the Cal-HOSA career technical student organization.
11.0 Demonstration and Application
Demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills contained in the Health Science and Medical Technology anchor standards, pathway standards, and performance indicators in classroom, laboratory, and workplace settings and through the Cal-HOSA career technical student organization.
Patient Care Standards
B3.0 Know how to apply mathematical computations used in health care delivery system.
B5.0 Know the definition, spelling, pronunciation, and use of appropriate terminology in the health care setting.
B8.0 Demonstrate the principles of body mechanics as they apply to the positioning, transferring, and transporting of patients.
B9.0 Implement wellness strategies for the prevention of injury and disease.
B10.0 Comply with protocols and preventative health practices necessary to maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, health care workers, coworkers, and self within the health care setting.