Health Occupations
CHELSEA GRIEB
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Health Occupations is a multi-level course that will help students explore careers in the healthcare industry. Students will gain entry-level skills and knowledge that will help them to be successful for a career in healthcare directly out of high school or some types of post secondary education.
Introduction to Health Occupations: This is an introductory course that is designed to explore healthcare careers and investigate the medical field. Other topics covers in this course would include safety, introduction to medical terms and basic clinical skills.
Health Occupations 1: Students who take this course will revisit some careers in the healthcare industry with a focus on their career expectations and how to get that career. Other topics included in this level include anatomy, medical terminology, vitals signs and more basic clinical skills .
Health Occupations 2: In this level, students will again visit careers. Students will take prior knowledge to learn how to manage patient care in multiple aspects.Students will learn about medical law and ethics, nutrition, death and dying, growth and development and human needs. Students will also learn more clinical skills that include head to toe assessment, ambulating a patient and patient transfers.
Health Occupations 3: In this last year, students will begin to problem solve patient issues and understand why a patient is experiencing their signs and symptoms. Students will learn more advanced content such as cardiac rhythms and pharmacology. There is also a continuation with medical terminology. Students may also have the ability to participate in an internships program with a local health care facility.
