Technical Skills Strategies

• Providing hands-on skill building opportunities through labs and simulations

  • Helping to develop a "calm"

• Provide clinical rotations

• Friends & Family Phlebotomy

• Navigating patient care

• Developing resourcefulness during emergency situations

• Understanding diagnostic procedures

• Understanding of ethics in health science professions

• Knowledge of the history

• Understanding how to evaluate patient needs

• Using case studies to develop critical thinking

• Understanding connected math skills needed

• Developing self care skills

• Understanding of ethics and HIPPA

• Understanding of how assessments happen at different levels

• Be able to diagram and demonstrate

Employability Skills Strategies

• Communication- providing students with opportunities for group and public speaking

• Teaching students about adaptability - working with different populations: special pops, cognitive or physical disabilities, emotional

• Learn how to assess

• Building in ways to learn flexibility in practice

• Understanding personal hygiene

• Development of critical thinking skills

• Development of teamwork skills 

  • Conflict resolution

  • Understanding roles

  • Understanding bias

• Using Oregon Employability Skills embedded into curriculum and practice

• Providing workplace practices in the classroom

• Building cultural competencies

• Help students understand their dreams and then focus in on reality

• Support students in building their self-awareness

• Build the family support for the student and participation in the program

• Lead students to investigate and research more options

• Support the students in building their network so that they have people beyond the classroom to ask

• Development of critical thinking around - programs and decisions, finances, career valves

• Career exploration activities within the program

• Guest speakers representing various career pathways in health care

• Dual credit

• Discussions around career options and the school options available- 1 year, 2 year, 4 year, graduate

• Clinical rotations and exploration

• Providing an opportunity to have patient interaction

• Self-reflection and goal making

• Engaging with community partners for opportunities

• Deepen understanding of professional boundaries and understanding scope of practice

• Field trips to programs and for career exploration

• Sharing industry partners for guest speakers to explore options

• Work together for high school teachers and students to understand prerequisits for PCC programs, and work together to alieve barriers to entry

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• Increasing teachers and faculty's understanding of what is needed skill-wise and within certifications to increase employability opportunities

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PACTEC REGION SECONDARY

• Health Careers/BSD

• Century

• Forest Grove

• Glencoe

• Hillsboro High

• Liberty

• Southridge

• St. Helens

• Tualatin

PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS SECONDARY

• Benson

• Ida B. Wells

• Roosevelt

PCC POST-SECONDARY

• Emergency Medical Services

• Exercise Science

• Eye Technician

• Health Information Management

• Health Studies

• Medical Assisting

• Medical Imaging

• Medical Professions

• Nursing

Oregon Primary Care Association

https://orpca.org/ 

Washington County Health & Human Services

washingtoncountyor.gov/hhs 

Oregon Health Authority

www.oregon.gov/oha 

Oregon Coalition of Local Health Officials

https://oregonclho.org/ 

OHSU Hillsboro Medical Center

https://tuality.org/ 

Kaiser Permanente

https://www.kpnwvolunteer.org/why-kpnw-volunteering 

HOSA - Future Health Professionals - oregonhosa.org