HEED 128 Exploring Health Care and Health Care Professions

The role of the health care professional is explored and includes an overview of careers in the health care system. Common issues to be studied include health care systems, health care services, and legal, ethical, and financial trends in health care. A major focus will include medical terminology and application of professional responsibility in all health care environments. Professional communication skills and cultural competence in health care will be examined. Computerization and the use of technology in the health care field will be explored. Students will have the opportunity to interact with a health care professional while investigating health care careers.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Eligible to enroll in ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

1. Analyze the historical changes in the US health care system, health care services, and the health care professional.
2. Compare and contrast the roles of members on the health care team in a variety of health care settings.
3. Discuss professional, legal, and ethical issues governing health care practice.
4. Identify potential stressors and intervention techniques for the health care professional.
5. Discuss the use of technology in the health care delivery system.
6. Apply strategies of inquiry and exploration through researching health care.
7. Evaluate the authority, credibility, and purpose of health care resources.
8. Demonstrate the ethical and discipline specific use of information while researching best practices in the health care field.

Course Objectives

1. Analyze the historical changes in the US health care system, health care services, and the health care professional.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • discussion thread, quiz/exam,
2. Compare and contrast the roles of members on the health care team in a variety of health care settings.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • group discussion, presentation, quiz/exam
3. Discuss professional, legal, and ethical issues governing health care practice.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • discussion board, quiz/exam, presentation
4. Identify potential stressors and intervention techniques for the health care professional.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • discussion board, quiz/exam
5. Discuss the use of technology in the health care delivery system.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • discussion board, quiz/exam
6. Apply strategies of inquiry and exploration through researching health care.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL1
7. Evaluate the authority, credibility, and purpose of health care resources.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL2
8. Demonstrate the ethical and discipline specific use of information while researching best practices in the health care field.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Writing Assignments

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Information Literacy Rubric

   Information Literacy

   • IL3