All resources in Nebraska Health Sciences

Know your CTSO (Career and Technical Student Organization)

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Students will start their Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) year with activities that apply important career readiness skills, including teamwork, communication, leadership, creativity, and utilization of technology.  They will also begin to understand the connection between what they are learning in the classroom and their future career path through one (or more) CTSOs.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Author: Jan Osborn

History of Healthcare

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This lesson introduces students to historic medical discoveries by focusing on the individuals and medical innovations that advanced the field. Students will create “About Me” pages for individuals and create a presentation about medical innovations. Finally, a timeline is created for students to identify trends and reflect on the importance of history to the field. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Author: Sarah Hubel

Ethics in Healthcare

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This lesson introduces ethical standards of healthcare to students. Students will understand guiding ethical principles and their application to a career field’s code of ethics. Students will be able to differentiate between cultural and social ethical dilemmas. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Sarah Hubel

Health Insurance and Patient Care

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This lesson provides an overview of common health insurance plans. This lesson will also introduce how health insurance processes can sometimes impact patient care. This lesson is best complemented with a guest speaker from an area hospital, ask for an individual who works in billing and insurance. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Sarah Hubel

Health Insurance and Patient Care

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This lesson provides an overview of common health insurance plans. This lesson will also introduce how health insurance processes can sometimes impact patient care. This lesson is best complemented with a guest speaker from an area hospital, ask for an individual who works in billing and insurance.  StandardsHS.HS.8.2.b Compare types of health care insurance, including private, managed care, and government programs

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Sarah Hubel

Ethics in Healthcare

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OverviewThis lesson introduces ethical standards of healthcare to students. Students will understand guiding ethical principles and their application to a career field’s code of ethics. Students will be able to differentiate between cultural and social ethical dilemmas.  StandardsHS.HS.6.2.b Describe ethical practices with respect to cultural, social, and ethnical differences within the healthcare environment.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Sarah Hubel

History of Healthcare

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OverviewThis lesson introduces students to historic medical discoveries by focusing on the individuals and medical innovations that advanced the field. Students will create “About Me” pages for individuals and create a presentation about medical innovations. Finally, a timeline is created for students to identify trends and reflect on the importance of history to the field.  StandardsHS.HS.6.1.a Identify the history of health care.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Sarah Hubel

Preparing the Mind - Mental Health & Injury Recovery

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In this lesson, students learn about psychological variables that can affect athletic performance. Students will also be able to identify strategies to help athletes cope with stresses. The knowledge acquired will be incorporated within a player injury profile. This lesson 3 of 4 is a part of a injury management project.In this lesson students learn the basic terminology related to sports psychology and psychological variables that can affect athletic performance. Students will be able to understand coping strategies to help athletes deal with sport related stresses. The activities used to aid in understanding of sports psychology will be a lecture and video and article response writing along with  group discussion to athletes dealing with psychological barriers and how they cope with them.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Jamelyn Denny

On the Road to Recovery - Soft Tissue & Bone Healing

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In this lesson, students learn the phases of bone and tissue healing. Students will research factors that can affect the healing process. The research acquired will be incorporated within a player injury profile.This lesson 2 of 4 is a part of a injury management project.  In lesson one "Injury Recognition, Treatment, and Prognosis", students research demographics, past medical history, injury mechanism, structure(s) involved, signs and symptoms of an athlete who has presented with an injury.  In this lesson, students learn the phases of bone and soft tissue healing and factors that can affect healing. Also, students research specific factors that did or could affect their chosen athlete.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Jamelyn Denny

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Ethics in Medicine

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This lesson is focused around a case study created by Julia Omarzu with the Department of Psychology at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. The case study addresses the moral, ethical, and medical issues surrounding the treatment for a young girl suffering from a rare genetic disorder called Fanconi anemia. The case study is written as a scripted discussion between medical and biotechnology professionals in regards to the processes, risks, and ethical concerns surrounding the use of genetic diagnosis, stem cells, and in-vitro fertilization. Students will be asked to respond to the ethical issues from the perspective of one of the seven characters from the case study as well as share their personal opinions.

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: Jamelyn Denny

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Healthcare Occupations - Scavenger Hunt

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There are hundreds of different jobs in medicine. This activity is designed to introduce you to different healthcare professions and some of the websites where you can find more information about health-related occupations.By the end of this lesson, you will:Learn how to navigate and extract health careers information from websitesBecome familiar with various healthcare professions

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Jamelyn Denny

Health Case Studies

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Toward Closing the Healthcare Communication Gap Short Description: Health Case Studies is composed of eight separate health case studies. Each case study includes the patient narrative or story that models the best practice (at the time of publishing) in healthcare settings. Associated with each case is a set of specific learning objectives to support learning and facilitate educational strategies and evaluation. Long Description: Health Case Studies is composed of eight separate health case studies. Each case study includes the patient narrative or story that models the best practice (at the time of publishing) in healthcare settings. Associated with each case is a set of specific learning objectives to support learning and facilitate educational strategies and evaluation. The case studies can be used online in a learning management system, in a classroom discussion, in a printed course pack or as part of a textbook created by the instructor. This flexibility is intentional and allows the educator to choose how best to convey the concepts presented in each case to the learner. Because these case studies were primarily developed for an electronic healthcare system, they are based predominantly in an acute healthcare setting. Educators can augment each case study to include primary healthcare settings, outpatient clinics, assisted living environments, and other contexts as relevant. Word Count: 64593 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically as part of a bulk import process by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided. As a result, there may be errors in formatting.)

Material Type: Case Study, Textbook

Authors: Glynda Rees, Janet Morrison, Rob Kruger

On-Site Healthcare Clinical Journal Instructions with Rubric

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This includes an instruction page on how students that reach a healthcare capstone course in high school are to complete their weekly journal assignments for the class.    Each week when the students are experiencing a different location or department this provides a reflection as their summative for the weekly clinical experience.   The journal includes students reflecting on: professions, pathologies, treatment/cures, and overall experiences.

Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment

Author: Laura Prochaska

Measuring Weight with a Physical Beam Scale

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This lesson explains how to accurately read a physical beam scale that are used in healthcare settings.  This presentation introduces some beginning concepts on considerations when completing this skill on a resident.  Then the lesson continues into explaining how to accurately read the scale to the nearest 1/10 of a pound.  Then provides three example problems, followed by eight practice problems for students to complete or as a class activity.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment

Author: Laura Prochaska