Unit 1: Considering a Career in Healthcare? Finding the Right Role
- Explain the concepts of the five career pathways in health science and provide examples of jobs in each category
- Compare the roles and contributions of different members of a healthcare team
- Research and assess the level of education and training required for specific healthcare jobs
- Develop a logical potential career path in health sciences
Unit 2: Healthcare Today: The Business of Caring
- Compare the services of different healthcare settings
- Explain the government’s role in the US healthcare system
- Distinguish between the delivery models of HMOs, PPOs, EPOs, and POSs
- Analyze the economic factors affecting healthcare
- Trace the origins of current health treatments to older practices from many cultures
Unit 3: Anatomy, Physiology, and Medical Terminology in a Nutshell
- Trace the hierarchy of the structure of the human body, from atoms all the way up to the whole organism
- Distinguish between anatomy and physiology, and discuss the relationship of these two fields of study
- Explain homeostasis and give three examples of this process
- Describe position and direction of movement in anatomical terminology
- Decipher complex medical terms and build your own medical terms from prefixes, roots, and suffixes
Unit 4: Growth and Development Throughout the Life Span
- Explain the physical, emotional, and social needs of babies, toddlers, teenagers, and adults
- Predict healthcare needs throughout the life span
- Debate the value of Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development in modern times
- Apply Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to understand what motivates human behavior
Unit 5: Health and Wellness
- Integrate healthy eating and regular exercise into daily habits
- Assess and avoid the risks associated with using substances like alcohol, tobacco, and drugs
- Reflect on the emotional reactions to illness and the stages of grief
- Apply wellness principles to improve health and plan for wellness
- Link the effects of chronic stress to physical health and strategize interventions for stress management
Unit 6: Effective Communication in Healthcare
- Deconstruct communication using the sender-receiver model
- Experiment with active listening and using open-ended questions in personal and school life
- Articulate barriers to communication in healthcare settings, including cultural factors
- Adapt your body language to build trust in a professional setting
- Categorize objective and subjective data and report events in the order of occurrence
Unit 7: Healthcare and the Law
- Advocate for your rights as a patient
- Explain the components of HIPAA to keep patient information safe
- Debate the legality of actions a healthcare worker might take
- Role play situations with legal and ethical implications for health workers
- List workplace rights and responsibilities that apply to healthcare employees
Unit 8: Ethical Responsibilities
- Apply ethical principles to healthcare decisions
- Compare and contrast scope of practice and codes of ethics
- Debate the ethics of technological advances in healthcare
- Reflect on how empathy is related to ethical principles in healthcare
