Wiki Page, HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS A: Course Description (HF-A)

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Healthcare Foundations A offers students the opportunity to begin developing some foundational skills and critical thinking expected of all healthcare workers including careers in nursing, emergency medicine, rehabilitation, sports medicine, many others students may not recognize, and others that are only beginning to evolve into careers of the future. Students will work with manikins, simulators, virtual scenarios, and in select cases on each other to learn both technical skills and the ability to work with live patients as people, but also to maintain a connection of understanding for what they are asking their patients to do.

While there will be knowledge-based work and assessments, the majority of the class will be using, developing, and assessing the student’s actual capabilities towards specific competencies. Upon successful completion of training, students will receive the opportunity to earn certification in: BLS (advanced form of CPR/AED), First Aid. and Bloodborne Pathogens. Safety in the healthcare environment is also stressed and expanded beyond bloodborne and airborne pathogens and we will be completing a CDC course in preventing workplace violence. Students will also be introduced to select healthcare concepts such as healthcare ethics, teamwork, medical terminology, legal issues, and personal qualities of the healthcare worker.