Topic3.0 : Career Planning and Management
Students understand how to make effective decisions, use career information, and manage personal career plans:
Standard:
3.1
Know the personal qualifications, interests, aptitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary to succeed in careers.
Standard:
3.2
Understand the scope of career opportunities and know the requirements for education, training, and licensure.
Standard:
3.3
Develop a career plan that is designed to reflect career interests, pathways, and postsecondary options.
Standard:
3.4
Understand the role and function of professional organizations, industry associations, and organized labor in a productive society.
Standard:
3.5
Understand the past, present, and future trends that affect careers, such as technological developments and societal trends, and the resulting need for lifelong learning.
Standard:
3.6
Know key strategies for self-promotion in the hiring process, such as job applications, résumé writing, interviewing skills, and portfolio preparation.
Topic4.0 : Technology
Students know how to use contemporary and emerging technological resources in diverse and changing personal, community, and workplace environments:
Standard:
4.1
Understand past, present, and future technological advances as they relate to a chosen pathway.
Standard:
4.2
Understand the use of technological resources to access, manipulate, and produce information, products, and services.
Standard:
4.3
Understand the influence of current and emerging technology on selected segments of the economy.
Standard:
4.4
Understand the impact of enhanced technology, bioethics, epidemiology, and socioeconomics on the health care delivery system.
Standard:
4.5
Know how to interpret technical materials and medical instrumentation used for health care practices and policies.
Topic5.0 : Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
Students understand how to create alternative solutions by using critical and creative thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, analytical thinking, and problem-solving techniques:
Standard:
5.1
Apply appropriate problem-solving strategies and critical thinking skills to work-related issues and tasks.
Standard:
5.2
Understand the universal, systematic problem solving model that incorporates input, process, outcome, and feedback components.
Standard:
5.3
Use critical thinking skills to make informed decisions and solve problems.
Standard:
5.4
Examine multiple options for completing work tasks by applying appropriate problem-solving strategies and critical thinking skills to work-related issues.
Topic6.0 : Health and Safety
Students understand health and safety policies, procedures, regulations, and practices, including equipment and hazardous material handling:
Standard:
6.1
Know policies, procedures, and regulations, regarding health and safety in the workplace, including employers’ and employees’ responsibilities.
Standard:
6.2
Understand critical elements for health and safety practices related to storing, cleaning, and maintaining tools, equipment, and supplies.
Standard:
6.3
Understand the importance and use of Standard Precautions and Infection Control, as appropriate.
Standard:
6.4
Understand principles of body mechanics and ergonomics in providing patient care.
Standard:
6.5
Understand the rules and regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Topic7.0 : Responsibility and Flexibility
Students know the behaviors associated with the demonstration of responsibility and flexibility in personal, workplace, and community settings:
Standard:
7.1
Understand the qualities and behaviors that constitute a positive and professional work demeanor.
Standard:
7.2
Understand the importance of accountability and responsibility in fulfilling personal, community, and workplace roles.
Standard:
7.3
Understand the need to adapt to varied roles and responsibilities.
Standard:
7.4
Understand that individual actions can affect the larger community.
Standard:
7.5
Know how to interact appropriately and respectfully in various employment situations that involve persons from diverse ethnic, generational, cultural, religious, and economic groups and persons of different genders and sexual orientation.
Standard:
7.6
Know and appreciate cultural differences and provide culturally competent care to patients and clients.
Standard:
7.7
Understand and demonstrate methods for promoting health and wellness.
Topic8.0 : Ethics and Legal Responsibilities
Students understand professional, ethical, and legal behavior consistent with applicable laws, regulations, and organizational norms:
Standard:
8.1
Know major local, district, state, and federal regulatory agencies and entities that affect industry and how they enforce laws and regulations.
Standard:
8.2
Understand the concept and application of ethical and legal behavior consistent with workplace standards.
Standard:
8.3
Understand the role of personal integrity and ethical behavior in the workplace.
Standard:
8.4
Understand the ways in which ethical considerations affect emerging technologies and their impact on society.
Standard:
8.5
Understand and maintain the Patients’ Bill of Rights, patients’ and clients’ confidentiality, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Topic9.0 : Leadership and Teamwork
Students understand effective leadership styles, key concepts of group dynamics, team and individual decision making, the benefits of workforce diversity, and conflict resolution:
Standard:
9.1
Understand the characteristics and benefits of teamwork, leadership, and citizenship in the school, community, and workplace settings.
Standard:
9.2
Understand the ways in which preprofessional associations, such as the Health Occupations Students of America, and competitive career-development activities enhance academic skills, promote career choices, and contribute to employability.
Standard:
9.3
Understand how to organize and structure work individually and in teams for effective performance and attainment of goals.
Standard:
9.4
Know multiple approaches to conflict resolution and their appropriateness for a variety of situations in the workplace.
Standard:
9.5
Understand how to interact with others in ways that demonstrate respect for individual and cultural differences and for the attitudes and feelings of others.
Topic10.0 : Technical Knowledge and Skills
Students understand the essential knowledge and skills common to all pathways in the Health Science and Medical Technology sector:
Standard:
10.1
Understand the process for determining mission statements, goals, objectives, and strategic plans for a health care organization and understand the process for using appropriate policies, procedures, and processes as defined by the scope of practice of a specific health care organization.
Standard:
10.2
Understand how the health care delivery systems models can be affected by cost, managed care, technology, an aging population, access to care, alternative therapies, and lifestyle and behavior changes.
Standard:
10.3
Understand the purpose and function of a systems-theory approach, both in the health care organization and in the treatment of patients and clients, as a process for viewing a system as a whole before examining its parts.
Standard:
10.4
Understand the interconnected components of a health care system.
Standard:
10.5
Understand the nature of the interdependency of health care professionals within a given health care delivery system.
Standard:
10.6
Know cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first-aid practices.
Standard:
10.7
Understand the processes used to evaluate alternative health practices.
Standard:
10.8
Understand the interconnected components of a health care system.
Topic:
11.0
Demonstration and Application
Theraputic Cluster
StrandE1.0 : Students know how to communicate procedures and goals to patients and clients and members of the health care team by using a variety of strategies:
Standard:
E1.1
Know the process for evaluating the ability of patients and clients to understand information provided.
Standard:
E1.2
Use appropriate communication strategies with patients and clients.
Standard:
E1.3
Use appropriate responses to the health care needs of patients and clients.
StrandE2.0 : Students understand the protocol and regulatory guidelines for collecting information about patients and clients, for identifying and responding to the health care needs of patients and clients, and for reporting the results:
Standard:
E2.1
Understand the collection and formatting of information by using facility protocols and regulatory guidelines.
Standard:
E2.2
Use medical terminology appropriate to therapeutic services to interpret and communicate procedures and observations.
StrandE3.0 : Students understand the purpose and components of a treatment plan:
Standard:
E3.1
Understand the roles and responsibilities, within their scope of practice, that contribute to the design and implementation of a treatment plan.
Standard:
E3.2
Understand the process of prioritizing and organizing work in accordance with patients’ and clients’ treatment plans.
Standard:
E3.3
Determine the availability of resources for the effective implementation of treatment plans for patients and clients.
Standard:
E3.4
Use equipment and instruments in accordance with manufacturers’ guidelines and accepted safety practices.
Standard:
E3.5
Know the process for the documentation of actions in accordance with facility protocol and regulatory guidelines.
StrandE4.0 : Students understand their role and scope of practice in monitoring, assessing, and reporting the health status of patients and clients:
Standard:
E4.1
Understand the process for monitoring patients’ and clients’ responses to administered treatments and procedures.
Standard:
E4.2
Understand the process for reporting patients’ and clients’ responses to administered treatments and procedures.
Standard:
E4.3
Know the process for assessing patients’ and clients’ responses to administered treatments and procedures.
StrandE5.0 : Students know how to evaluate patients’ and clients’ needs, abilities, and challenges to determine whether treatment goals are being reached:
Standard:
E5.1
Use the appropriate evaluation tools to assess patients and clients.
Standard:
E5.2
Understand the process for revising or creating modifications to treatment plans on the basis of information gathered.
Diagnostic Cluster
StrandB1.0 : Know how to use appropriate methods and technology within a multidisciplinary health care industry to communicate information:
Standard:
B1.1
Know how to evaluate and report relevant information effectively to the appropriate personnel.
Standard:
B1.2
Use medical terminology appropriate to diagnostic services to interpret, transcribe, and communicate information and observations.
StrandB2.0 : Students know the process for assessing and reporting the health status of patients and clients:
Standard:
B2.1
Understand the process for analyzing available information to assess the health status of patients and clients.
Standard:
B2.2
Know the process for evaluating and appraising the appropriateness of information.
Standard:
B2.3
Know how to evaluate patients’ and clients’ responses to treatment and procedures.
Standard:
B2.4
Use appropriate documentation to report information about patients and clients.
StrandB3.0 : Students know the principles of body mechanics as they apply to the positioning, transferring, and transporting of patients and clients:
Standard:
B3.1
Know the process for assessing the health status of patients and clients.
Standard:
B3.2
Know the process for evaluating potential hazards to patients and clients.
Standard:
B3.3
Know how to evaluate equipment for possible hazards.
Standard:
B3.4
Use appropriate transport and transfer methods to accommodate the status of patients and clients.
Standard:
B3.5
Use appropriate equipment for transportation and transfer, including the modification of equipment and techniques, to accommodate the status of patients and clients.
Standard:
B3.6
Use proper body mechanics, ergonomics, safety equipment, and techniques to prevent personal injury to patients and clients.
StrandB4.0 : Students know how to explain procedures and goals to patients and clients and use various strategies to respond to questions and concerns:
Standard:
B4.1
Know how to assess the ability of patients and clients to comprehend procedures and how to modify communication in accord with a patient’s level of understanding.
Standard:
B4.2
Use active listening skills (e.g., reflection, restatement, and clarification techniques) to provide information to patients and clients and to address their concerns and questions in an appropriate and positive manner.
StrandB5.0 : Students understand requests for procedures and know how to interpret the requests, plan the coordination and implementation of services, and prepare for specific procedures:
Standard:
B5.1
Understand scope of practice, evaluate requests for appropriateness, and coordinate interdisciplinary services.
Standard:
B5.2
Use appropriate protocol after assessing patients, clients, and resources.
Standard:
B5.3
Follow patient-verification protocols to ensure readiness and appropriateness of procedures.