2023-2024 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

The six NC Essential Employability Skills are Communication, Ethics, Problem Solving, Professionalism, Resource Management, and Teamwork. These skills are covered among the course essential standards and objectives/indicators as listed beside each. NC CTE curriculum provides and supports career awareness, career exploration, career development, technical skill development, and career readiness where six Essential Employability Skills are included in CTE Curriculum Standards. CTE builds a career and college ready workforce through the K-12 pipeline and provides a consistent and 'common language' for identification of the six Essential Employability Skills.

Career and Technical Education conducts all activities and procedures without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or disability. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best professional practices is the duty of the practitioners, teachers, students, and/or others who apply the contents of this document.

This blueprint has been reviewed by business and industry representatives for technical content and appropriateness for the industry.

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Standard/Obj #: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
Standard: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

HU42 Health Science II

Course Type: Developed

Standard/Obj #	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation	Essential Employability Skills
1.00	Understand employability skills for healthcare professionals	20%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.01	Understand characteristics and attributes of healthcare professionals	6%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.02	Understand trans-cultural awareness related to healthcare services	6%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Professionalism
1.03	Understand legal and ethical issues related to healthcare	8%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Professionalism
2.00	Understand healthcare safety and infection control procedures	25%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Teamwork
2.01	Understand communicable disease pathology, treatment, and prevention	10%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Professionalism
2.02	Understand infection control and aseptic procedures (may use Career Safe OSHA 10-Hour Healthcare module)	5%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Professionalism Teamwork
2.03	Understand safety considerations and procedures when providing healthcare services (may use Career Safe OSHA 10-Hour Healthcare module)	10%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Teamwork
3.00	Understand cardiovascular and respiratory systems and how to respond to emergencies	30%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Problem Solving Professionalism Teamwork
3.01	Understand the structures, functions, and disorders of the respiratory system	10%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Problem Solving Professionalism Teamwork
3.02	Understand the structures, functions, and disorders of the circulatory system	10%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Problem Solving Professionalism Teamwork
3.03	Apply BLS CPR and AED skills to respond to respiratory and cardiovascular emergencies	10%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Problem Solving Professionalism Teamwork
4.00	Understand the domains of healthcare	25%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.01	Understand diagnostic and therapeutic services	15%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.02	Understand health informatics and support services	10%	B2 Conceptual Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork