HEALTH CAREERS

 

Our Mission: Health Careers seeks to prepare students to advance to institutions of higher learning and to specialize in health care careers of their choice; to prepare students to earn a Regents high school diploma, and to obtain entry-level position in health care.

 

Health Careers Curricula:

Grade 9:

Introduction to Occupations – 1 semester – State Exam at completion; keyboarding.

 

Grade 10:

Health Core – two period day, 1 full year – State Exam at completion

 

Grades 11 & 12:

Specialized areas: Medical Assisting, Dental Assisting, Practical Nursing, EMT, and Child Care.

·                     Students must conform to requirements for yearly physical examination, testing, immunization, and all special rules of the Health Careers Department.

·                     One day a week is professional uniform or professional dress day.

·                     Ten hours of community service is required each semester.

·                     All certified students from the Nursing Program must take the State licensure exam for the Practical Nursing Program.  Students completing the EMT Program are expected to sit for the New York State EMT exam.

HEALTH CAREERS DEPARTMENT

The Health Careers Department offers five exciting specialty areas, Licensed Practical Nursing, Licensed EMT and certificates in Medical Assisting, Dental Assisting and Child Care Technician.  All areas begin in the 9th and 10th grade with specialization in 11th grade and 12th grades.  All students must complete 10 hours per semester of volunteer hours.  Students must join the HOSA club (Health Occupation Students of America).  There is a uniform dress code.  Parents are expected to join the Parents’ Association.

 

KIHF – Introduction to Occupations

This course gives a glimpse of the world of work.  It is one semester.  It culminates with an SED exam.  BKCH is the alternate term course for the 9th grade.  It is computer applications with specific emphasis on the health careers field.

 

KM1C – KM1S: Core – Part I (10th Grade Health Occupation Education)

This is the required double-period 10th grade course, which introduces the students to the health field.  It includes anatomy, physiology and nutrition.

 

KM2C-KM2S: Core – Part II

It includes the study of life cycle, CPR, leadership and health careers organization.  At the completion of the double period full course, students take an SED exam.  Students who complete a full year of Core and pass are exempt from Health.

 

MEDICAL ASSISTING

KD1M-KD2M – Introduction to Medical Assisting, Related Body Structure and Function

This is a double period course that involves theory and clinical experience one day a week in a local hospital/clinic/nursing home facility.  The course includes a general introduction to medical assisting and related body structure function.

 

KD3M-KD4M – Medical Office Assistant, Nutrition, Life Cycle

This is the spring semester of medical assisting clinical experience one-day week in trimesters. The content continues with the medical office assistant and nutrition and life cycle.

 

KD5M-KD6M – Therapeutic Procedures, Part I: Diagnostic Procedures, Part I

This double period course if for 12th graders.  It involves clinical experience 2-3 days a week, all year, plus a theory component that includes therapeutic procedures and diagnostic procedures.

 

KD7M-KD8M – Therapeutic Procedures, Part II: Diagnostic Procedures, Part II

This is the spring semester for 12th graders in medical assisting.  It includes theory of diagnostic procedure, plus clinical procedures.

 

KCD1-KCD2 – Introduction to Child Development, Normal Growth and Development Through Infancy

This is a double period course for the fall of the junior year.  It has a theory and clinical component at life center nursery schools.  The theory involves introduction to child development and normal growth and development through infancy.

 

KCD3 – KCD4 – Introduction to Child Development, Normal Growth and Development–Toddler to School Age

This is the double period course for the spring of the junior year.  Clinical experiences one day a week continues.  The theoretical components include continuation of child development and the study of normal growth and development from toddler to school age.

 

KCD5 – KCD6 – Abnormal Growth and Development – Clinical Diagnostic Procedures

This is the full double period for senior year.  Students spend more time in the clinical area.  The theory portion introduces abnormal growth and development, along with clinical and diagnostic procedures.

 

KCD7-KCD8 – Disorders of Growth and Development, Clinical and Therapeutic Procedures

The students have clinical experiences at Pickwick Nursery School and Bright Beginning, local elementary schools, Queens Hospital Center, in their emergency room and outpatient facilities.  They attend the facility for neurologically impaired brain injured children, the United Cerebral Palsy Center and the Life Center.  The classroom work centers on the disorders of growth and development and clinical and therapeutic procedures.

 

DENTAL ASSISTING

 

KC1d-KC2D – Chair-Side Assisting, Part I: Preventive Dentistry, Part I

This is a double period for the 11th graders in the fall.  It involves material dealing with chair-side assisting and preventive dentistry.

 

KC3D-KC4D – Chair-Side Assisting, Part II: Preventive Dentistry, Part II

This is a double period spring semester class for the junior.  It deals with chair-side assisting and preventive dentistry.  Some clinical experience is provided.

 

KC5D-KC6D – Dental Office Assisting, Part I: Dental Laboratory, Part I

This is the fall semester 12th year course.  It involves both clinical and theory experience.  The students attend facilities at Margaret Tietz Center for Nursing, Flushing Hospital, Long Island Jewish Hospital and Parker Geriatric Center.  Their classroom subject deals with dental office assisting and dental laboratory.

 

KC7D- KC8D – Dental Office Assisting, Part II: Dental Laboratory, Part II

Students spend time in the clinical area, plus continuing their studies in dental office assisting and dental laboratory techniques.

 

EMT – FOR 12TH GRADERS ONLY

 

KFR1 – Responding to Emergencies

Responding to emergencies is a prerequisite for EMT.  Exception being the PN students.  Students learn CPR and patient assessment.  They will joining their local ambulance corps.  This is a single. One semester course.

 

KEMA – Emergency Medical Technician

This is a double period course with a lab.  This is the full emergency technician course.  At the completion student take the EMT state licensing exam.  A strong suggestion is to take a drivers-ed course.

 

PRACTICAL NURSING

This is a 5 period block.  There are 4 period of class; the 5th period is for lunch/travel, science lab and nursing lab.  The passing grade for all nursing subjects is 75%.  The course is 1180 SED registered.

 

KN3A – Fundamentals of Nursing

Students attend the clinical setting one day a week with a clinical instructor.  The theory includes all activities of daily living, legal issues, nursing care plans, lifting/moving, injections, vital signs.

 

KN3M – Microbiology/Anatomy and Physiology

This course includes 9 weeks of microbiology, plus anatomy and physiology.

 

KN3N – Nutrition

This includes the study of vitamins, minerals, calories and nutritional value of foods.  Hospital diets are examined.  Alternate forms of nutrition are studies.

 

KN3X – Clinical Experience

Supervised clinical experience one day a week with a ratio of 10 students to one teacher.  Complete physical exams must be in order by the first day of class.  Students receive a report card grade.  However, the calculation of the grade is incorporated into the fundamentals of nursing course.  Nursing students are exempt from gym.

 

KN3B – Fundamentals of Nursing II

This is the double period spring course.  It includes oxygen therapy, bowel and bladder, special tests/exams, and death and dying.  All students take the nurse aide exam in June, plus other blocker and standardized exams from ATI.

 

KN3L – Life Cycle

The topic of normal growth and development is studies through the adult.

 

KN3D- Anatomy & Physiology

Class continues with the normal structure and function of the body.

 

KN3Y – Clinical Experience

Supervised by clinical instructor.  Students now move from the geriatric setting to the acute care units.  Students are mandated to go to the hospital for 16 days through July from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day.

 

KN4D – Advanced Nursing Care Problems I

Double period.  Students work in an acute care setting.  The care of their patients is more involved.

KN4E – Maternal Nursing

This course is a single period.  It deals with the patient during pregnancy through labor and delivery and through the six weeks following delivery.

 

KN4F – Mental Health/Life Cycle II

These are two shorter courses given in one semester.  It covers the nurse in care of patients with psychological and psychiatric conditions.  Life Cycle II deals with the geriatric patients.

 

KN4X – Supervised Clinical

Students are in the clinical setting five days a week for two weeks at a time.  Two weeks are in the clinical areas, followed by two weeks in the classroom.

 

KEFA – Pharmacology I

This is the introduction to drugs and the administration of them.

 

KN5D – Advanced Nursing Care Problems II

This is a double period class that deals with the care of patients with serious abnormal deviations in health.  It deals with the situation system by system, i.e., cardiac, neurological, orthopedic, etc.

 

KN4D – Child Health – Pediatrics

This is pediatrics.  It deals with the child from birth through adolescence and the nurse’s response to his/her illness.

 

KN4F – Community Health/Prof. Ethics

This is two short courses given in one semester.  It deals with the agencies and facilities available in the community to patients, and the nurse’s role in this situation.  The students also have their CPR card updated.  In the professional ethics, the students deal with the legal and ethical responses to health and illness for the nurse.

 

KN4Y – Supervised Clinical

Students spend two weeks in the clinical setting, five days a week, two weeks at a time.  Pediatrics, clinics, recovery room, and surgical are units that the students participate in.

 

KEFB – Pharmacology II

The course deals with intravenous medications, calculations of dosages, chemotherapy and blood administration protocols.

 

GWKT

Miscellaneous elective – one credit for 300 hours of work in the TOPS/Learn Program.