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Principles of Health Science
Course Description: The Principles of Health Science course is designed to provide an overview of the therapeutic, diagnostic, health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research and development systems of the health care industry.
Course Requirements: This course is recommended for students in Grades 9 and 10.
Prerequisites: None.
Unit 1: Employability Skills, Career Options and Preparation
- This unit allows students to explore business and industry employer expectations. Teamwork, communications skills, punctuality, attendance, time management, organizational skills, and productive work habits are emphasized. Students also identify career options and the corresponding pathway for a health science career.
Unit 2: Using Data and Measurement in Health Science
- In this unit students look at the many ways data and measurements influence health science. The metric system, reading charts and graphs, an interpreting data are covered. Students will also plan and prepare oral presentations and practice using precise language to communicate ideas.
Unit 3: Wellness Principles in Health Science
- This unit will look at biological and chemical processes that influence wellness. Students analyze how an individual can maintain wellness throughout their life span along with stages of development, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and stages of development being covered.
Unit 4: Research and Analysis in Health Science
- Understanding the health care system is vital to those looking to make it a career. This unit looks at the history of modern health care along with state, local, and national influences. Health care varies greatly from state to state, and from nation to nation. Differences are explored along with the tremendous economic impact the health care industry has on any country’s economy.
Unit 5: Communication Skills in Health Science
- Students learn about effective communications in the unit. Verbal and nonverbal communication is explored along with conflict resolution techniques.
Unit 7: Health Science Career Pathways
- Students will have the opportunity to compare health science careers within the diagnostic, therapeutic, health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research and development systems. Students will study how various health science entities interact within the health care system.
Unit 8: Ethics and Legal Responsibilities
- Principles of ethical behavior and confidentiality are examined along with the concepts of malpractice, negligence, and liability. The student will research laws governing the health science industry.
Unit 9: Individual Rights and Choices
- Wellness strategies for the prevention of disease are emphasized in this unit. The positive and negative effects of relationships on physical and emotional health such as peers, family, and friends in promoting a healthy community are evaluated.
Unit 10: Understanding Safety Requirements in Health Sciences
- Safety practices in the health science industry along with standard precautions, fire prevention and safety practices are taught. Students will study the many governmental and regulatory agencies surrounding health sciences.
Unit 11: Technology for Your Health Sciences Career
- Technology is becoming a vital component in modern health sciences. In this unit students will research many of the technologies currently in use health careers. A culminating activity will be to present a report about a specific piece of equipment that includes the potential issues and benefits the equipment may have..
