Therapeutic Services: High School

Foundational Standards

Therapeutic Careers

Legal and Ethical Issues

Medical Mathematics

Anatomy

Diseases and Disorders

Communication

Patient Care and Treatment

Health Technology

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing. 

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Demonstrate effective infection control techniques as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and The Joint Commission guidelines. 

Compare roles and responsibilities of various therapeutic services professionals. 

Analyze civil and criminal legal responsibilities and limitations impacting therapeutic services providers and explain their ramifications for patient care. 

Analyze ethical issues and how patients’ cultural, social, and ethnic differences impact their involvement in therapeutic services.

Demonstrate proficiency performing calculations commonly used in healthcare settings. 

Interpret charts, graphs, tables, and diagrams used in therapeutic service careers.

Relate specific body systems, including gross organ structures and general functions, to therapeutic healthcare skills. 

Describe the etiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases and disorders that are commonly encountered by professionals in the therapeutic services field.

Utilize effective therapeutic communication with patients and families in therapeutic service settings, including subjective and objective data. 

Create documentation according to facility policy and industry standards. 

Explain medical procedures utilized in therapeutic service careers.

Demonstrate skills necessary for specified therapeutic service careers. 

Demonstrate safe use of health technology used in specified therapeutic service settings.

Research and utilize billing codes to document treatment provided during therapeutic services.

Demonstrate respectful and empathetic treatment of all patients, clients, and families in therapeutic services settings.