HEALTH 104 - Safety, Basic Life Support and Infection Control

Credits: 2
Education and training for health care providers on workplace safety, infection control measures, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Students learn about healthcare-acquired infections and other serious infections from a variety of microorganisms and learn how to protect themselves and others from these infections. Students learn theory and practice of infant, child, and adult CPR, automated external defibrillation (AED), and bag-mask valve techniques for individuals who are responsible for delivering emergency care. CPR is taught according to American Heart Association guidelines for Health Care Providers. An American Heart Association Health Care Provider card will be awarded upon successful completion of the course. Previously HEALTH 127.

Enrollment Requirement: Instructor consent.

Course Fee: $100.00

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

Identify the signs, symptoms, and chain of survival of heart and brain attack.
Describe the chain of infection and apply the chain of infection model to various infectious pathogens.
State the precautions healthcare workers use to prevent transmission of blood-borne pathogens, airborne pathogens, aerosol pathogens, and contact pathogens.
Identify risk factors and clinical manifestations for specific serious infectious pathogens such as HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B & C, tuberculosis, influenza, MRSA, C. diff and COVID-19.
Critically explore the importance of vaccination programs and proper antibiotic stewardship in healthcare.
Demonstrate proper CPR techniques and understanding of signs and symptoms of cardiac attack.

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate problem solving, critical thinking approaches utilized in patient care settings.
Use ethical principles in practice, conduct, and relationships with patients, staff, and families.
Identify with the values of the profession and incorporate them into practice.
Promote a positive public image of nursing assistant as a positive role model.
Utilize communication skills to establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with patients, families, and staff.
Execute competencies required for beginning practice as a nursing assistant.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
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.