H SCI 112 - Introduction to Healthcare Skills and Functions

Credits: 2
Students are instructed in general patient care basics including infection control and measuring vital signs, body mechanics and transfers along with professional behavior and awareness. Students also earn CPR/First Aid for healthcare professionals and HIV/AIDS certification and HIPAA certificates upon completion of the course.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Demonstrate basic professional communication skills needed to work effectively with supervisors, fellow staff members and patients/ clients.
Identify responsibilities relative to legal issues, which include patient client confidentiality and HIPAA compliance.
Demonstrate an awareness of different cultural health practice and the importance of respecting a variety of cultural beliefs in the work place.
Demonstrate good hand washing skills and donning and doffing gloves for knowledge of universal precautions and blood borne pathogens.
Demonstrate basic ability to accurately measure and record vital signs, which include pulse, blood pressure, body temperature and respiration.
Describe and demonstrate the principles of correct body mechanics.
Demonstrate the ability to perform and assist with turning and repositioning of patients.
Demonstrate the ability to perform and assist with transfers.
Earn mandatory 7 hour HIVAids certification.
Earn certified CPR/First aid for Healthcare Professionals card/certificate.

College-wide Outcomes

Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.