Exploring Health And Medical Careers

• 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

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

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.