Exploring Health Careers: 3rd Period
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Exploring Health Careers provides an overview of a wide variety of health career related jobs that are essential to the health care field. The course emphasizes basic First Aid, CPR and AED use. Students will explore various health careers such as sports medicine, firefighting, dispatch and police, veterinary medicine, dental, psychology, optometry, chiropractic, massage therapy, nursing, medicine, and forensics. This course will stress personal and interdisciplinary cooperation required to meet patient needs throughout all levels of health care. Upon satisfactory completion of the course, the student will be issued First Aid and CPR/AED cards.
Exploring Health Careers provides an overview of a wide variety of health career related jobs that are essential to the health care field. The course emphasizes basic First Aid, CPR and AED use. Students will explore various health careers such as sports medicine, firefighting, dispatch and police, veterinary medicine, dental, psychology, optometry, chiropractic, massage therapy, nursing, medicine, and forensics. This course will stress personal and interdisciplinary cooperation required to meet patient needs throughout all levels of health care. Upon satisfactory completion of the course, the student will be issued First Aid and CPR/AED cards.
EMT: 4th Period
This course offers skills and knowledge of the EMT 1, covering emergency care in the following areas: patient assessment, CPR, shock management, oxygen therapy, soft tissue injury, splinting fractures, trauma assessment and extrication, burn management, environmental emergencies, child birth, and common medical emergencies.
Introduction to Fire Services: 5th Period
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This course provides an overview of career opportunities in fire protection, and related fields. Topic areas include an introduction to the philosophy and history of fire protection/services, fire departments as part of local government, laws and regulations, affecting fire services, fire service nomenclature, specific fire protection functions, basic fire chemistry and physics, fire protection systems, National Incident Management system (NIMS), Incident Command System, rescue practices, and fire strategy and tactics.
This course provides an overview of career opportunities in fire protection, and related fields. Topic areas include an introduction to the philosophy and history of fire protection/services, fire departments as part of local government, laws and regulations, affecting fire services, fire service nomenclature, specific fire protection functions, basic fire chemistry and physics, fire protection systems, National Incident Management system (NIMS), Incident Command System, rescue practices, and fire strategy and tactics.