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Course Outcomes By the end of this course, you should be able to: HS100-1: Identify current issues in health science and how they relate to chosen health science professions. HS100-2: Define the required education, certification, and credentials needed at the national and state level for a given health care profession. HS100-3: Create a portfolio that outlines relevant career resources and support materials for a health science profession. HS100-4: Discuss the roles and responsibilities of selected health science professionals. HS100-5: Define the professional traits and skills needed to be successful in the field of health science. General Education Outcomes: In addition, the following General Education outcomes are assessed during this course: GEL-1.1: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.

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More from the Reading Icon Web Resources  In this unit and in your academic career, you will be using the World Wide Web to find information. For this reading activity, review how many teachers and students use this website to find great search engines.  Using the Internet to Conduct Research  Searching with Savvy: The Best Search Engines for Teachers and Students 

More from the Reading Icon The reading activity is a presentation about the online classroom. If you have flash ( on your computer, access this presentation by clicking on the video button below. If you do not have flash or prefer to read the text version of this presentation, click on the presentation button below and read the notes. Once you complete the presentation, do a little more web research by going to O*Net OnLine, and enter in your future job profession title.

More from the Reading Icon  Take notes that outline:  The tasks  The education requirements  The wages  Any other items of interest to you

More from the Reading Icon  Then, use an internet search engine, such as Google, to conduct more in-depth research on your chosen profession and professional resources available in your geographical area. Enter in your future job profession and then “professional organizations.”  Take notes that outline these items:  Explore several of the websites until you find at least 2 professional organizations.  Write a summary of each organization and whether or not you might join it.

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Medical Assisting Abilities Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Health Information Technology Abilities Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

Fitness & Wellness Coordinator Tasks  Develop or coordinate fitness and wellness programs or services.  Supervise fitness or wellness workers, such as fitness instructors, recreation workers, nutritionists, and health educators.  Conduct or facilitate training sessions or seminars for wellness and fitness staff.  Develop fitness or wellness classes, such as yoga, aerobics, weightlifting, and aquatics, ensuring a diversity of class offerings.

Fitness & Wellness Coordinator Tasks Maintain wellness- and fitness-related schedules, records, or reports. Manage or oversee fitness or recreation facilities, ensuring safe and clean facilities and equipment. Operate, and instruct others in, proper operation of fitness equipment, such as weight machines, exercise bicycles, benches, hand weights, and fitness assessment devices.

Nutritionist & Dieticians Tasks  Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.  Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.  Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.

Nutritionist & Dieticians Tasks  Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client.  Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards.  Organize, develop, analyze, test, and prepare special meals such as low-fat, low-cholesterol and chemical-free meals.

Medical & Health Service Managers Tasks Conduct and administer fiscal operations, including accounting, planning budgets, authorizing expenditures, establishing rates for services, and coordinating financial reporting. Direct, supervise and evaluate work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel. Maintain communication between governing boards, medical staff, and department heads by attending board meetings and coordinating interdepartmental functioning.

Medical & Health Service Managers Tasks  Review and analyze facility activities and data to aid planning and cash and risk management and to improve service utilization.  Plan, implement and administer programs and services in a health care or medical facility, including personnel administration, training, and coordination of medical, nursing and physical plant staff.  Direct or conduct recruitment, hiring and training of personnel.

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