Orange School District

Orange School District

Introduction to

Health Careers

Curriculum Guide – Grade 9
2011 Edition

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BOARD OF EDUCATION

Patricia A. Arthur
President
Arthur Griffa
Vice-President
Members
Stephanie Brown / Rev. Reginald T. Jackson / Maxine G. Johnson
Eunice Y. Mitchell / David Wright
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Ronald Lee
DEPUTY
SUPERINTENDENT / ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT
Dr. Paula Howard

Curriculum and Instructional Services

/ Belinda Scott-Smiley

Operations/Human Resources

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR
Adekunle O. James
DIRECTORS
Barbara L. Clark, Special Services
Candace Goldstein, Special Programs
Candace Wallace, Curriculum & Testing
Curriculum Contributor
Rhoda Selander Conant

Orange School District - Introduction to Health Careers

Table of Contents

Philosophy……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
Purpose & Vision ..…………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
Standards ……………………..……………………………………………………………………………………...... 5
Curriculum Blueprint ..………………………………………………………………………….……..…...7 - 16

Philosophy

The Health Occupations Education program at Orange High School seeks to meet present and predicted needs for health care workers in a health care system that is characterized by diversity and changing technologies. It is a program that recruits qualified and motivated students and prepares them for the pursuit of appropriate health careers. Introduction to Health Careers is designed to familiarize students with the broad spectrum of careers in the medical field.

Purpose and Vision

Introduction to Health Careers is geared toward those students who plan to pursue post-secondary study in allied or professional health careers. Students begin to learn skills necessary for their healthcare career pathway, including working with others, communication skills, legal and ethical responsibilities, cultural considerations, problem solving, decision making, personal responsibility, and self management. Quality health care depends upon each person’s ability to work well with others.

Based on the sciences, humanities, and a researched body of knowledge, the curriculum is designed to offer a beginning foundation of the knowledge and skills necessary for health career preparation. The curriculum incorporates technological advances related to the health care delivery system, ethics, professionalism, preventative medicine, diagnostics, therapeutics, and rehabilitation. Teaching/learning strategies integrate appropriate workplace readiness skills that assist students to use resources and technologies, function as effective team members within a complex system, and access and use appropriate information. In addition, basic college readiness skills are honed, as related mathematics and language arts standards are reinforced. Careers related to medicine, research, health care and modern medical technologies are explored. The students each complete an in-depth exploration of a health career, which is presented to the whole class.

STANDARDS

9.1 21st-Century Life & Career Skills: All students will demonstrate the creative, critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills needed to function successfully as both global citizens and workers in diverse ethnic and organizational cultures.
9.2 Personal Financial Literacy: All students will develop skills and strategies that promote personal and financial responsibility related to financial planning, savings, investment, and charitable giving in the global economy.
9.3 Career Awareness, Exploration, and Preparation: All students will apply knowledge about and engage in the process of career awareness, exploration, and preparation in order to navigate the globally competitive work environment of the information age.
9.4 Career and Technical Education: All students who complete a career and technical education program will acquire academic and technical skills for careers in emerging and established professions that lead to technical skill proficiency, credentials, certificates, licenses, and/or degrees.
3.1 Reading: All students will understand and apply the knowledge of sounds, letters, and words in written English to become independent and fluent readers and will read a variety of materials and texts with fluency and comprehension.
3.2 Writing: All students will write in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content ad form for different audiences and purposes.
3.3 Speaking: All students will speak in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.
3.4 Listening: All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.
3.5 Viewing and Media Literacy: All students will view, evaluate, and respond to print, nonprint, and electronic texts and resources.
4.1 Number and Numerical Operations: All students will develop number sense and will perform standard numerical operations and estimations on all types of numbers in a variety of ways.
4.5 Mathematical Processes: All students will use mathematical processes of problem solving, communication, connections, reasoning, representations, and technology to solve problems and communicate mathematical ideas.
5.1 Science Practices: All students will understand that science is both a body of knowledge and an evidence-based, model-building enterprise that continually extends, refines, and revises knowledge. The four Science Practices strands encompass the knowledge and reasoning skills that students must acquire to be proficient in science.
A. Understand Scientific Explanations: Students understand core concepts and principles of science and use measurement and observation tools to assist in categorizing, representing, and interpreting the natural and designed world.
C. Reflect on Scientific Knowledge: Scientific knowledge builds on itself over time.
5.3 Life Science: All students will understand that life science principles are powerful conceptual tools for making sense of the complexity, diversity, and interconnectedness of life on Earth. Order in natural systems arises in accordance with rules that govern the physical world, and the order of natural systems can be modeled and predicted through the use of mathematics.
A. Organization and Development: Living organisms are composed of cellular units (structures) that carry out functions required for life. Cellular units are composed of molecules, which also carry out biological functions.
B. Matter and Energy Transformations: Food is required for energy and building cellular materials. Organisms in an ecosystem have different ways of obtaining food, and some organisms obtain their food directly from other organisms.
C. Interdependence: All animals and most plants depend on both other organisms and their environment to meet their basic needs.
D. Heredity and Reproduction: Organisms reproduce, develop, and have predictable life cycles. Organisms contain genetic information that influences their traits, and they pass this on to their offspring during reproduction.
E. Evolution and Diversity: Sometimes, differences between organisms of the same kind provide advantages for surviving and reproducing in different environments. These selective differences may lead to dramatic changes in characteristics of organisms in a population over extremely long periods of time.
8.1 Educational Technology: All students will use digital tools to access, manage, evaluate, and synthesize information in order to solve problems individually and collaboratively and to create and communicate knowledge.

Orange School District - Introduction to Health Careers

KEY ELEMENTS / CONTENT (What Students should know) / PERFORMANCE TARGETS /
How can students prepare themselves for a career in health care where they are dealing with the complexities of the human body and highly technical diagnostic and therapeutic equipment?
What are the course requirements, expectations, attendance, and participation requirements?
What safety precautions are necessary in the classroom and in clinical areas?
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NJCCCS:
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1C, 5.3A
Technology:
8.1
21st Century Life/Careers:
9.1, 9.3, 9.4
/ Introduction to Health Careers is designed to familiarize the students with the health care industry, its past, present, and future.
Students will explore a broad spectrum of careers and share their explorations with their classmates.
Course syllabus and major objectives, grading, and student evaluation procedures.
Discussion of the student learning goals and their relationship to the course and employability.
Knowledge of proper safety precautions is a prerequisite to classroom and clinical learning explorations.
Identify safety hazards commonly found in a variety of medical settings, including blood borne pathogens and hazardous waste.
Review procedures to be followed relating to Standard/Universal Precautions. / Read and discuss policies and requirements for course.
Discuss the teacher and student expectations for the course.
Complete required forms, including personal biography.
Discuss classroom safety, emergency and disaster procedures.
Follow correct protocol for identifying and reporting safety problems and violations.
Discuss ways to report a potential hazard to a supervisor.
Complete “safe@work” modules on-line at
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/safe@work/ guides/student/index.asp
Complete a safety test based on workplace safety.
How does a perspective on the history of medicine help us understand our present health care system and predict the future course of health care?
What is the current status of healthcare in the United States?
What factors should be considered when choosing a career in healthcare?
NJCCCS:
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1C, 5.3A
Technology:
8.1
21st Century Life/Careers:
9.1, 9.3, 9.4
What personal characteristics are important for workers in the field of health care?
What can we do to develop the positive characteristics and overcome/change negative characteristics?
NJCCCS:
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1C, 5.3A
Technology:
8.1
21st Century Life/Careers:
9.1, 9.3, 9.4
How can we maintain a safe environment for both workers and clients in health care facilities?
NJCCCS:
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1C, 5.3A
Technology:
8.1
21st Century Life/Careers:
9.1, 9.3, 9.4
How are the legal rights of patients and healthcare workers protected?
What ethical considerations are important in the field of healthcare?
What are some present and emergent ethical healthcare issues?
NJCCCS:
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1C, 5.3A
Technology:
8.1
21st Century Life/Careers:
9.1, 9.3, 9.4
What are the major facts that we should know about the human body in order to have a beginning understanding of health care?
What are the most common medical terms related to each of the body systems?
NJCCCS:
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1C, 5.3A
Technology:
8.1
21st Century Life/Careers:
9.1, 9.3, 9.4 / Exploration of major milestones in the field of healthcare.
Present healthcare systems in the United States and the world.
Overview of the broad spectrum of health careers.
Career Clusters and Career Ladders in health care.
Health care facilities and agencies and their functions.
Health Insurance models.
Factors contributing to the high cost of health care.
Types of health care services.
Factors to consider when choosing a career in health care.
Important health care workers’ characteristics and abilities
Values, attitudes, and behavior
Hierarchy of needs as established by Abraham Maslow
Stress management and time management
Good personal health and professional appearance
Critical thinking and problem solving for effective decision making
Effective communication and barriers to communication.
Avoidance of bias, prejudice and stereotyping in healthcare professions.
Assertive behavior and communication
Health and Safety Terms
Standard and Transmission-Based Isolation Precautions
Medical and Surgical Asepsis
Signs and symptoms of general and localized infection
Chemical safety in the workplace
Functions of OBRA and OSHA
Guidelines for Body Mechanics
AHA “patient Bill of Rights”
Legal and ethical responsibilities for healthcare professionals
Interpersonal dynamics and communication both verbal and non-verbal
Importance of charting and other written documents
Proper charting methods
Overview of Basic Human Structure and Function
Body Planes and Directions
Integumentary System
Skeletal System
Muscular System
Nervous System
Sensory System
Endocrine System
Cardiovascular and Circulatory System
Respiratory System
Digestive System
Urinary System
Reproductive System
Traditional vs. Modern Medicine
Basic Medical Terminology related to structure and function of the body and the most common conditions and clinical procedures. / Recall major milestones in healthcare and their significance.
Write a formal paper about a person of color who has made a significant impact on the field of medicine. (Appendix A)
Find a current events article about health care and present a summary to the class.
Describe socioeconomic factors that influence the health care industry.
Define career cluster and career ladder and give examples of each.
Discuss healthcare services, healthcare facilities, healthcare agencies, and health insurance.
Identify factors contributing to the high cost of health care.
List factors to consider when choosing a career in health care.
Identify, analyze and demonstrate characteristics, attitudes and communication styles of health care workers
Recognize, analyze, and demonstrate effective means of communication
Using a pyramid diagram, plot Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Explain Maslow’s theory.
Discuss appropriate dress and grooming standards for a medical environment.
Identify and analyze effective ways to avoid bias, prejudice and stereotyping in health care professions
Define privileged communications and explain how they apply to health care
Solve health care problems effectively using good critical thinking skills.
Define and synthesize terms related to health and safety.
Identify and demonstrate standard precautions.
Explain how and why standard precautions are important in health care.
Analyze and synthesize multiple sources to evaluate chemical safety for health care professionals.
Describe and explain the standards for OBRA and OSHA
Recognize and explain misconceptions related to government standards and their implications for healthcare.
Identify and demonstrate body mechanics
Explain how and why body mechanics are important in health care
Identify and evaluate legal and ethical codes, laws and directives related to health care for both patients and health care professionals.
Show a cause and effect relationship between professional standards and legal/ethical requirements.
Provide one example of a situation that might
result in legal action for each of the following:
malpractice; abuse; negligence; assault and battery; false imprisonment; invasion of privacy; and defamation.
Describe and analyze the role of the healthcare worker regarding current legal and ethical issues.
Describe how contract laws affect health care.
Recognize, analyze, and demonstrate effective means of communication.
Identify and analyze effective ways to avoid bias, prejudice and stereotyping in health care professions.
Define privileged communications and explain how they apply to health care.
Explain principles of accepted ethical frameworks with respect to cultural, ethnic, and social differences within the health care community.
State the legal regulations that apply to health care records.
Define and synthesize terms related to human anatomy and physiology
Identify and Explain different organ systems
Compare and contrast organ systems
Evaluate how different organ systems interact
Analyze the relationship between basic anatomy and physiology
Identify the cause and effect relationships between personal habits and disease
Demonstrate understanding of basic human anatomy
List and identify basic word elements related to anatomy and physiology of the body structure, including cells, tissues, and glands.
Analyze, define, spell, and pronounce medical terms related to anatomy and physiology of the body structure, including major organs of each body system.
Identify and define the most common prefixes and suffixes used in medical terms.
What are the major categories of careers in health care?
How can we better understand the broad spectrum of careers and explore the necessary training for a specific career?
What can high school students do to better prepare for successful post-secondary schooling?
NJCCCS:
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1C, 5.3A
Technology:
8.1
21st Century Life/Careers:
9.1, 9.3, 9.4 / Careers in Health Care
Health Career Clusters and Ladders
Career Paper and Project Completion and Presentation / Discuss how personal profiles compare with the education requirements, job experience, environmental factors and work-related values of various health careers in career planning.
Participate in a career assessment to identify areas of interest in the health care field.
Explain the relationship of personal traits such as interests, values, aptitudes, and abilities to career choices and job satisfaction.
Research and describe at least nine different health careers (3 each – entry level, technical, and professional) by including a definition of the career, three duties, educational requirements, and employment opportunities.
Based on career choice, identify and research a minimum of three additional health careers related to that career.
Prepare a formal paper and a multimedia presentation or visual display that describes one career in detail, including work environment, educational requirements, salary, and other related conditions / requirements. (Appendix B)
Discuss certifications, licensing, registration, and associated regulations.
Define the purpose of professional organizations associated with the health care industry.
Compose a letter requesting information from the professional organization that represents a specific health career.