Possible Careers
Campus Contacts
Savanna Bisswanger | Director, Public School Relations
DeWitt
Michelle Blasengame | Director, Public School Relations
Stuttgart
End-of-Program Student Learning Outcomes
- Introduce students to a diverse range of healthcare professions and educational pathways to gain insight into the many career opportunities in the healthcare industry.
- Students will gain understanding of the critical importance of healthcare worker and patient safety.
- Students will learn medical terminology and the proper use in the professional setting.
- The students will receive a comprehensive Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology, providing them with an in-depth understanding of the body's organization system and how all the systems work together.
- In a diverse range of hands-on simulated patient care activities and assessments students will have a realistic understanding of the health care environment.
Students will demonstrate knowledge in the following outcomes:
- Proficiency in the study of health and medical abbreviations, symbols, and Greek and Latin word part meanings taught within the context of body systems.
- Skills in pronouncing, spelling, and defining new words encountered in verbal and written information.
- Students have the opportunity to acquire skills in interpreting medical records and communications accurately and logically.
- Emphasis is on forming a foundation for a medical vocabulary including meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
- Medical abbreviations, signs, and symbols are included.
- Define terminology related to safety in medical procedures.
- Outline the basic rules of good body mechanics.
- Identify safety regulations used for equipment and solutions in healthcare.
- Discuss regulations for patient safety when performing procedures in the laboratory or clinical setting.
- Discuss regulations to observe for personal safety.
- Outline fire safety and evacuation guidelines.
- Perform First Aid & CPR proficiently
- Discuss classification of microorganisms.
- Discuss elements in the chain of infection.
- Distinguish between antisepsis, disinfection and sterilization.
- Describe how pathogens affect the body.
- Outline the correct procedure for washing hands.
- Outline universal blood and body fluid precautions.
- Discuss methods of infection control.
- Differentiate between