Course Outcome Summary

(HEACA) (Health Careers) Course Information:

Description: Health Careers

Are you interested in assuming a health-related career someday? How would you feel about a career that is high paying, satisfying, in large demand, and offers the ability to locate anywhere? In Health Careers class, we will prepare you for the many areas of need in the health and medical field. You will also be one step ahead of others with CPR/First Aid training and certification. You will have the opportunity to meet health professionals in our classroom and learn what it takes to successfully complete a program to become a health or medical professional. Computer skills, creative problem solving, and current trends in medicine will be the focus of our Health Careers course.

Instruction Level: (10-12th Grade)

Total Credits: (Credit 1) Course Standards:

Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Standard 2 Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Standard 3 Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Standard 4 Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Standard 5 Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Standard 6 Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Standard 7 Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

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Standard 8 Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Prerequisites: Health (Recommended)

Unit

1. Unit 1 Job Skills 2. Unit 2 Healthcare Facilities, Insurance & Organizational Structure 3. Unit 3 Careers in Healthcare 4. Unit 4 Legal & Ethical Responsibilities 5. Unit 5 Cultural Diversity 6. Unit 6 Geriatric Care 7. Unit 7 Historical Healthcare 8. Unit 8 Emergency Procedures & CPR UnitOutlines

1. Job Skills Students will comprehend the five health career pathways and identify characteristics of their personality and match them to the possible career choices.

Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease

prevention to enhance health.

Standard 2 Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Standard 4 Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to

enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Standard 5 Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Standard 6 Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

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Essential Question:

● What are the five career pathways within the health industry and describe a range of careers within each

● Why does decision making influence one’s health career/life? ● How does goal setting help one to attain goal achievement?

Essential Knowledge:

● Five health career pathways: research and development, therapeutics, diagnostics, informatics, support services.

● The student will apply Healthy Decision Making Questions to everyday decisions. ● The student will learn to practice S.M.A.R.T. goal setting to attain achievement.

2. Healthcare Facilities, Insurance & Organizational Structure ● Insurance Terminology ● Health Care Plan Options ● Health Care Facilities

Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease

prevention to enhance health.

Standard 2 Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology,

and other factors on health behaviors.

Standard 4 Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to

enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Essential Question:

● What are some key basic health insurance terms? ● What are the main types of health care plans? ● What is the purpose of organizational structures in health care facilities?

Essential Knowledge:

● Key health insurance terminology. ● Types of health care plans: public/private ● Health care facilities: private, government, voluntary/nonprofit

3. Careers in Healthcare

● Levels of Education ● Medical Careers ● Dental Careers ● Emergency Medical Careers

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Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease

prevention to enhance health.

Standard 2 Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Standard 3 Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Standard 5 Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Standard 6 Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Standard 8 Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Essential Question:

● How much education is required for the health career I wish to pursue? ● What are available roles to fill in health careers?

Essential Knowledge:

● Levels of post-secondary education and programs of study. ● Health careers in demand.

4. Legal & Ethical Responsibility

● Legal Terminology ● HIPPA ● Code of Ethics ● Patient Rights

Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease

prevention to enhance health.

Standard 2 Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Standard 3 Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

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Standard 4 Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Standard 5 Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Standard 8 Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Essential Question:

What is my legal and ethical obligation as a health care worker?

Essential Knowledge:

Legal responsibility and jargon: malpractice, negligence, assault and battery, invasion of privacy false imprisonment, abuse, defamation, Libel, HIPAA, code of ethics, patient’s rights.

5. Cultural Diversity

Students will learn how to be mindful of cultural differences, improving their ability to communicate and work with diverse populations.

Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease

prevention to enhance health.

Standard 2 Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Standard 3 Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Standard 4 Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Standard 8 Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Essential Question:

How can I be responsive to cultural differences and needs of others?

Essential Knowledge:

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Course Outcome Summary

Students will use responsive, person first language. Key terms: Culture, ethnicity, diversity, race, values, beliefs, customs, cultural assimilation.

6. Geriatric Care

Students will investigate the physical effects of the body from the aging process, research misconceptions of aging, and how geriatric care differs from caring for other populations.

Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease

prevention to enhance health.

Standard 4 Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to

enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Standard 5 Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance

health.

Standard 6 Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Standard 7 Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Essential Question:

How does the body change due to the aging process?

How does caring for a geriatric patients differ from caring for other age groups?

Essential Knowledge:

Geriatric care: Aging body systems, mental and emotional health.

7. Unit 7 Historical Healthcare Students will research health care in various historical time periods.

Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease

prevention to enhance health.

Standard 2 Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

Standard 8 Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Essential Question:

● How and why has health care evolved into today’s medical practices?

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Essential Knowledge:

● Historical healing practices: Socratic Oath, bloodletting, vaccinations, surgery, sanitation.

8. Emergency Procedures & CPR

Students will learn basics first aid and CPR skills such as what should be in a first aid kit, how to put on a compression bandage, the RICE Method, how to take off rubber gloves, Heimlich Maneuver, how to respond in medical/injury emergencies (spotting a stroke F.A.S.T.), and CPR.

Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

Standard 3 Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.

Standard 4 Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

Standard 5 Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

Standard 6 Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

Standard 7 Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

Standard 8 Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

Essential Question:

● How does using high quality CPR save lives? ● Why should I be capable of performing basic First Aid and CPR? ● How can I be a part of a first response rescue team?

Essential Knowledge:

● Basic First Aid ● CPR ● Heimlich Maneuver ● Universal Precautions (glove removal)

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