The First Responder course focuses on the pre-hospital care of the sick and injured. Students will be provided with a foundation and understanding of the role of first responders in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the Basic Life Support (BLS) skills used to render immediate action and care for various emergencies. A majority of the emergency first responder's task in the emergency response field is to provide pre-hospital care for the sick and injured. This course will focus on medical services provided by first responders. Students will develop medical skills within the responsibilities of a first responder and proper procedures of pre-hospital emergency care. As a result, this class requires hands on participation. Students will be required to work with each other to practice skills in class. All students will be required to complete and obtain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) certification.

The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the knowledge, skills, and medical services used in pre-hospital care.

Students will:

• Demonstrate basic life support skills within the scope of practice of the emergency first responder as required for emergency response occupations.

• Demonstrate accurate Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) certification.

• Demonstrate proper patient assessment and recognize the seriousness of the patient's condition or extent of injuries to apply appropriate emergency pre-hospital care.

• Demonstrate the ability to receive and provide patient care information to other medical providers.

• Manage an incident scene as the first responder, using emergency response skills appropriate to training and medical scope of practice of the first responder.

Certified nursing assistants work under the supervision of licensed nursing professionals. They care for patients who are infirm, ill, injured, disabled, and otherwise unable to care for themselves. In many settings, CNAs are the health professionals whom patients encounter most often. A CNA performs a variety of basic duties that are important for the patient's comfort and recovery. These tasks vary depending on the employment setting.

When becoming a CNA, individuals are required to be at least 16 years of age and have nursing assistant training. This course is designed so that the students can acquire the educational requirement to prepare for the California Certified Nursing Assistance board exam. Before enrolling, Health Academy students will need to successfully complete their first two years of Health Academy course work with a C or better in the Patient Care Pathway.

Upon successful completion of CNA training, individuals will subsequently be prepared to take a CNA certification examination. This exam consists of two parts - a written part and a practical part. The written exam will be taken in a group setting and typically consists of a number of multiple choice style questions. Test takers have 90 minutes to answer. The second portion, the clinical skills exam, is administered one at a time with a single test proctor/observer. Individuals will be tested on four randomly selected clinical skills to demonstrate their competency. They will have 30 minutes to complete this section of the exam.

The Sports Medicine course is designed to educate students interested in fields such as athletic training, physical therapy, medicine, fitness, physiology of exercise, kinesiology, nutrition, and other sports medicine fields. Students who are in their second year of the Health Academy course sequence are eligible to take the course. The main focus of this class during the first semester is to introduce students to the science of human anatomy and physiology, various injuries of the body, and methods to care for these injuries.

The primary focus of the second-semester course work will include, but not be limited to, the following topics: The Sports Medicine Team, organization and administration, injury prevention, physical training, and conditioning techniques, nutritional considerations, protective sports equipment, psychology of sports injury/illness, mechanisms and characteristics of sports trauma, tissue response to injury, human anatomy, exercise physiology, biomechanics, kinesiology, CPR/bloodborne pathogens, injury assessment and evaluation, environmental concerns, basic taping and bandaging, explanations of therapeutic modalities, basic exercise rehabilitation, drug use/abuse in sports, and skin disorders.

The Advanced Sports Medicine course is designed to give the sports medicine student a detailed examination of post-injury management techniques used by athletic trainers and physicians in the management of orthopedic injuries. This curriculum will focus on surgical techniques and their implications on rehabilitation/activity and captures the totality of injury management including pathology, immediate management, diagnostic imaging, definitive and differential diagnosis, medical management, medications, surgical intervention, post-injury, and/or post-surgical management, and rehabilitation. The objective of Advanced Sports Medicine is to apply skills learned from the Sports Medicine 1 class while working independently to develop Sports Medicine instructional materials and research projects. Students will attend class while also being placed on internships to complete their independent learning projects.