Updates in the Healthcare Pathway Field
UNMC Visit Scheduled for October 11th
With over 50 students in our district interested in the healthcare pathway, students are getting more exposure, experience, and education in this field than your average high school student. Just how much, you might ask? In the past two years, our healthcare pathway students have had the opportunity to take the following classes:
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Medication Aide (non-CCC class)
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Developmental Psych (PSYC 2890)
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Intro to Health Science (HLTH 1000)
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Basic Med Terms (HLTH 1030)
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Medical Terminology (HLTH 1040)
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Intro to Sociology (SOCI 1010)
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General Biology (BIOS 1010)
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Comprehensive Medical Terminology (HLTH 1060)
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Nursing Assistant (HLTH 1200)
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Structure & Function of the Human Body I (BIOS 1250)
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Nutrition (HLTH 1470)
On Monday, October 2nd, healthcare pathway students in grades 9 through 12 met with Mrs. Epley at Lawrence/Nelson and Mrs. Borer at Sandy Creek to learn more about HOSA, Health Occupations Students of America. The district is in the process of starting a HOSA organization for our healthcare pathway students, which will offer those in grades 9 through 12 with the opportunity of competing in the healthcare pathway field at both the state, national and global level. At the monthly meetings, students will learn a skill in the healthcare field, which they can apply to emergency situations and to the tests that HOSA will have in March. At the meeting, students signed up to join the HOSA chapter ($20), as well as indicating which tests they would be interested in learning more about, and healthcare experiences they would like to take part in (UNK, UNMC, CCC are just a few). The agenda for the meeting can be found HERE.
In addition to classes taken and organizations to join, many of our students have earned their CNA and Med Aide degrees, which they have applied to the workplace either as full- or part-time summer jobs, or during the school year. We have had students receive the RHOP scholarship based on their knowledge and experience of the healthcare field, giving them an advantage over others with a more general high school curriculum. Students additionally have their own mentor to both learn from and ask questions of, which they meet with at least twice a month over the course of the school year.
In addition to the classes listed above, students have the opportunity to take College English, college-level math classes (College Algebra, for example), and more advanced classes, such as Physics, Trig/Pre-Calculus, and college-entry accounting.
At Lawrence/Nelson, we only have 4 students who are not currently taking college classes, which makes this number 88% of our students. At Sandy Creek, we have 83% of the students enrolled in college classes, bringing our district average to 85%. Guidance counselor Connie Porter worked to complete 27 ACE applications for our students in the Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education (CCPE). This is a total of 54 college classes at 3 credits each. If all of the applications and credits are awarded, this would amount to $16,200 that our district would not have to pay for college classes.
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10:00 am Arrival and Overview of Nebraska Medicine and UNMC
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10:30am Divide students into groups for tours
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10:30am Tour 1
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11:30am Lunch in one of the cafeterias on campus
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12:30pm Tour 2
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1:30pm Tour 3
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2:30pm Wrap up and dismiss
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3:00pm Students will depart for home, arriving back home around 6:30pm.
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Ag
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Business
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Construction
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Education
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Graphic Arts, and
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Manufacturing.
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