Courses of Study : Career Tech: Health Science

•  Identifying proper channels related to the process of communication and demonstrating effective interpersonal skills

•  Demonstrating proficiency and knowledge in the area of infection control

Examples: Lab Skills - handwashing, gloving, masking, gowning, donning and removing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

•  Demonstrating skills related to safety and emergency procedures to include abdominal thrust and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

Examples: Lab Skills - fire extinguisher, evacuation, falling, choking, CPR, bleeding, restraints

•  Describing the purpose of resident's rights and the importance of respecting the rights

•  Defining independence and methods for promoting resident independence

•  Defining the importance of vital signs and demonstrating skills for taking and recording temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure

Examples: Lab Skills - blood pressure, pulse, respiration, radial/apical pulse, temperature-oral, axillary, rectal

•  Demonstrating skills for measuring height and weight, and recognizing the importance of assessing height and weight

Examples: Lab Skills - weight of ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients, floor scale, wheel chair scale, occupied bed scale

•  Identifying steps to maintaining and caring for the resident's environment

Examples: Lab Skills - bedmaking, closed bed, occupied bed

•  Recognizing abnormal changes in elderly body functions and demonstrating steps for reporting findings

•  Defining stages in death and dying and identifying steps associated with caring for the dying resident

•  Demonstrating knowledge and skills needed for providing a bath and perineal care

Examples: Lab Skills - bedbath, shower, perineal care, catheter care, foot care

•  Demonstrating the procedures necessary for grooming residents to include oral hygiene

Examples: Lab Skills - fingernail care, hair, shaving, mouth care, upper and lower dentures

•  Demonstrating procedures for dressing residents

Examples: Lab Skills - dress in diaper, slacks, shirt, socks, shoes, apply knee-high elastic stocking, dress client with affected right arm

•  Describing methods of toileting and procedures for assisting with elimination

Examples: Lab Skills - bedpan, calculate intake, measure urinary output, empty catheter bag, collect urine specimen, bedside commode

•  Demonstrating steps for feeding residents

Examples: Lab Skills - feed resident, feed dependent resident

•  Recognizing the importance of nutrition, hydration, and assisting residents with hydration

Examples: Lab Skills - calculate intake and output, provide drinking water

•  Describing the importance of skin care

Examples: Lab Skills - back rub, lotion

•  Demonstrating skills for transferring, positioning, and turning residents

Examples: Lab Skills - dangle, stand, ambulate, transfer bed to wheelchair (transfer belt), two-person transfer, assist to ambulate using transfer belt, position in chair, turn toward and away, move with drawsheet, log roll, position in fowlers, semi prone, supine, Sims, position on side

•  Modifying behavior in response to resident behavior

•  Identifying appropriate steps for responding to residents based on their behavior

•  Describing the aging process and recognizing developmental task for the resident's age

•  Recognizing the role family members have in regards to support of resident and in planning resident care

Examples: Lab Skills - role play personal choice and dignity, admission procedure

•  Understanding techniques for addressing unique needs and behaviors of individuals with dementia

•  Recognizing and understanding skills for communicating with residents who suffer with cognitive impairments

•  Understanding cognitively impaired residents

•  Responding appropriately to the behaviors of cognitively impaired residents

Examples: Lab Skills - role play appropriate communication skills for cognitively impaired residents

•  Demonstrating methods of reducing the effects of cognitive impairments

Examples: Lab Skills - role play reducing the effects of cognitive impairments

•  Describing steps involved in training residents to perform task based on their abilities

•  Demonstrating knowledge and skills related to assistive devices for transferring, ambulating, eating, and dressing residents

Examples: Lab Skills - crutch, cane, walker, dressing, eating

•  Defining the importance of range of motion and accurately demonstrating steps for providing exercises for long term care residents

Examples: Lab Skills - perform passive range of motion exercises to include knee, ankle, shoulder

•  Identifying positioning and turning techniques for residents

Examples: Lab Skills - turning and positioning

•  Recognizing steps involved in bowel and bladder training

Examples: Lab Skills - bowel and bladder training schedule

•  Demonstrating skills related to the care and use of prosthetic and orthotic devices

•  Identifying steps for providing privacy and maintaining confidentiality of residents in long term care facilities

Examples: Lab Skills - HIPAA standards and regulations, confidentiality form, role play

•  Promoting a resident's right to make choices and accommodating their needs while in long term care

•  Recognizing the steps involved in resident grievance and assisting resident with resolving disputes

•  Assisting resident to participate in family groups and other activities while in long term care

•  Providing care and security of a resident's personal possessions while in long term care

•  Promoting a resident's right to be free from abuse, mistreatment, and neglect while in long term care

•  Demonstrating knowledge and understanding of a resident's right to be free from restraint use