Health Careers Certification

Tara Thomas, Instructor

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Instructional Methods

Classroom Policy

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LAPs

HOSA

LAPs:

Pre-Nursing

• CNA and CMA
  • Leadership
    • Leadership Skills
    • Understanding yourself
    • Marketing Yourself
    • Understand the persons you care for
  • Safety
    • Safety
    • Preventing Infection
    • Body Mechanics
    • CPR
    • First Aid
    • OSHA Safety Certification
  • Introduction to health care
    • Intro to the health care facility
    • Communication in the health care facility
  • Legal and Ethical
    • Legal and ethical issues
  • Assessment
    • Growth and development
    • Care of the elderly
    • The patient/ resident
    • Measuring vital signs
    • Assisting with physical exams
  • Medical Math
    • Fractions
    • Decimals
    • Percents
    • Ratios
    • Metrics
    • Drug Calculations
  • Practicum
    • Skills and Rotation

Dental

• Dental Assistanting
  • Leadership
    • Diversity
    • Leadership skills
    • Understanding yourself
    • Marketing yourself
  • Safety and Asepsis
    • Dental Safety
    • Dental ergonomy
    • CPR
    • First Aid
    • OSHA Safety Certification
  • Intro to Health Care
    • The history of dental care
    • The professional assistant
  • Legal and Ethical
    • Dental Ethics
  • Assessment
    • Dental Assessment
  • Dental Office
    • Front office
  • Dental Anatomy
    • Anatomy of the head and neck
  • Dental X-ray
    • Radiation Safety and imaging
  • Oral Health and Prevention
    • Health and prevention in the oral cavity
  • Restorative
    • Impressions and lab
    • Restorative material
  • Comprehensive Dental Areas
    • General dentistry
    • Coronal Polishing
    • Sealants
    • Endodontics
    • Periodontics
    • Prosthodontics
    • Pediatric
    • Orthodontics
    • Oral Maxillofacial
  • Practicum and Internship

Massage

• Massage Therapy
  • Leadership
    • Diversity
    • Leadership Skills
    • Understanding yourself
    • Marketing yourself
  • Safety
    • Hygiene, sanitation and safety
    • Body mechanics
    • CPR
    • First aid
    • Preparing to massage
    • OSHA Safety Certification
  • Introduction to Health Care
    • Foundations
    • History of massage
    • Diversity in populations
  • Legal and Ethical
    • Professionalism and legal issues
  • Assessment
    • Patient assessment
    • Indications and contraindications of massage
  • Fundamental of massage
    • Scientific art
  • The Business of Massage
    • Business
  • Techniques of Massage
    • Massage manipulation
    • Wellness promotion
  • Kinesiology
    • Mechanisms of health and disease
    • Endocrine focus
    • CNS focus
    • PNS focus
    • Skeletal focus
    • Muscular focus
    • Joint focus
    • Biomechanic focus
  • Soft Tissue
    • Cardiovascular
    • Lymphatic
    • Immunity
    • Integumentary
    • Respiratory
    • Digestive
    • Urinary
    • Reproductive
  • Pathology
    • integumentary
    • musculoskeletal
    • nervous
    • circulatory
    • lymph
    • respiratory
    • endocrine
    • digestive
    • urinary
    • reproduction
  • Alternative Disciplines
    • Aromatherapy
    • Reflexology
    • Hydrotherapy
    • Shiatsu
    • Polarity
    • Lymph drainage

Anatomy & Physiology

• Section 1
  • Organization of the human body
  • Biochemistry and Microbiology
  • Infection, Immunology and Sanitation
  • Tissue, Membranes and Wound Healing
• Section 2
  • Integumentary
  • Skeletal
  • Muscular
  • Nervous
  • Endocrine
  • Special Senses
  • Blood
  • Cardiac
  • Vascular
  • Lymph
  • Respiratory
  • Digestive
  • Urinary
  • Male Reproduction
  • Female Reproduction