Health Careers Program

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Program Overview

The Health Careers Program offers bright prospects for students seeking rewarding careers in one of the fastest growing employment areas. The overall objective of the program is to give each student an opportunity to develop his/her unique potential and achieve personal, academic, vocational/technical, and civic goals. This is accomplished by providing, in conjugation with other school activities and programs, a state-of-the-art, integrated academic and vocational/technical program that focuses on knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed by contemporary health care workers both in general and in select specialty areas.

Areas in which a student is expected to demonstrate competency include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Using medical terminology and communicating effectively, verbally, nonverbal, and in writing.
• Identifying ethical and legal responsibilities demonstrating employable skills.
• Promoting safety and controlling the spread of disease.
• Modern technology related to the health care field.
• Monitoring vital signs and providing emergency care.
• Performing select medical office childcare, rehabilitate, nursing assistant, and home heath aide skills.

Observational and clinical experience is provided in hospitals, childcare areas, rehabilitative facilities, and medical offices. Qualified students may take the certifying exams for First Aid, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, nursing assistant, and home health aide. Employment opportunities exist in diverse health care settings even before graduation. Those, who gain additional education, may pursue certification, registration, or licensure in nursing and dental careers, diagnostic services, emergency medical services, psychological and social services, rehabilitative services, nutrition and dietary services, and more.

Skills and Skill Areas

Favorite External Links for Health Careers

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Emedicine Consumer Health
• National Diabetes Education Program
• National Invention Hall of Fame
  “Honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.” Covers the areas of computers, communications, agriculture, electricity, chemistry, imaging, medical, industrial and nobel prize winners.
• National Library of Medicine
• Spine Health
• USDA My Pyramid
  The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion focuses on two primary objectives: 1. Advance and promote dietary guidance for all Americans ,and 2. Conduct applied research and analyses in nutrition and consumer economics.
• WebMD
• World Health Organization

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