CLUSTER Human Services
COURSE Wellness Issues for Special Populations
WVEIS CODE 1050
Course Description:
This course is designed to present the contemporary best practices for promoting wellness of Direct Service participants including: applying issues of nutrition, food handling and meal preparation; promoting preventive health, safety and other characteristics of a healthy lifestyle; identifying health resources; examining components of emotional wellness; and implementing effective and appropriate communication skills. Students utilize problem-solving techniques and participate in hands-on activities to develop an understanding of course concepts. Teachers should provide each student with real world learning opportunities and instruction. Students are encouraged to become active members of the student organization FCCLA or HOSA. The West Virginia Standards for Global 21 Learning include the following components: Global 21 Content, Literacy and Numeracy, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Standards. All West Virginia teachers are responsible for classroom instruction that integrates learning skills, technology tools, and content standards and objectives.
SKILL SETS
Preventive Health Supports and Strategies
Individualized and Specialized Health Care Supports
Medications
Providing Safe Environments
Wellness Issues for Special Populations WVEIS 1050
Skill Set / Preventive Health Supports and StrategiesKnowledge Objectives
1050.1 / Students will demonstrate knowledge of
· the role of lifestyle choices in the promotion of health and wellness.
· the importance of routines and procedures necessary to maintain good health.
· medication, therapy and treatment assistance.
· first aid, CPR and AED.
· universal precautions.
· regulatory and organizational requirements for monitoring and documenting health and wellbeing of participants.
· barriers to obtaining high quality, coordinated health care support.
· collaborating with health care support teams.
Performance Objectives
1050.2
1050.3
1050.4
1050.5
1050.6
1050.7
1050.8 / Students will
· discuss the importance of lifestyle choices as they relate to the promotion of health and wellness including:
o regular physical activity;
o proper nutrition;
o stress management;
o daily hygiene;
o medication management;
o preventative and routine medical and dental care;
o emotional well-being.
· develop strategies for fostering healthy lifestyle choices.
· describe methods for engaging participants in healthy choices and activities.
· discuss techniques for assisting with medication, therapy and treatment.
· demonstrate methods for first aid, CPR and AED.
· describe universal precautions, etc.
· discuss collaboration with other members of participant health care teams to ensure planned service delivery.
Skill Set / Individualized and Specialized Health Care Supports
Knowledge Objectives
1050.9 / Students will demonstrate knowledge of
· signs of well-being and illness.
· medical records.
· unique health care conditions.
· emergency procedures.
· risk management.
Performance Objectives
1050.10
1050.11
1050.12
1050.13 / Students will
· discuss methods for assisting the participant to understand health problems as they arise including personal observation, collaborative discussion, reviewing medical records, etc.
· describe health care conditions unique to various populations.
· examine individualized emergency health care response plans and procedures.
· discuss individualized risk assessment plans and techniques for risk management in various situations.
Skill Set / Medications
Knowledge Objectives
1050.14 / Students will demonstrate knowledge of
· legal and organizational procedures for medication administration.
· psychotropic medications.
· medication side effects.
· medication protocol initiation and discontinuation.
Performance Objectives
1050.15
1050.16
1050.17
1050.18
1050.19 / Students will
· describe the legal and organizational procedures for medication administration.
· discuss methods for the support of self-directed medication management.
· define psychotropic medications and identify side effects.
· discuss methods for monitoring medication side effects.
· examine the importance of monitoring the initiation and discontinuation of medication protocols.
Skill Set / Providing Safe Environments
Knowledge Objectives
1050.20 / Students will demonstrate knowledge of
· conditions necessary for the maintenance of health and wellness.
· general health and safety procedures for the work and home environments.
· health and safety conditions specific to various individuals/populations.
Performance Objectives
1050.21
1050.22
1050.23 / Students will
· identify conditions unique to each service participant necessary for health and wellness.
· discuss general health and safety procedures for the work and home environments.
· describe health and safety conditions specific to various service participants including discussions with specialists and use of adapting equipment and other specialized support based on workplace or special populations.
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