HC 100 - Community Health Worker

6 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s): RD 90 and WR 90, or WR 91 (WR 91 substitutes for both RD 90 and WR 90), or designated placement.

Course Description: Approved by the Oregon Health Authority, this course prepares students to be certified as community health workers in Oregon. Provides training in front-line public health care with an understanding and connection to the communities they serve. Also provides training in facilitating patient access to health and social services and to improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery. Trains students to provide culturally appropriate health education and information, assist people in receiving the care they need, give informal counseling and guidance on health behaviors, advocate for individuals and community health needs, and provide some direct services such as first aid and blood pressure screening.

Course Level: Career/Tech Preparatory

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Demonstrate active listening, reflecting, and rephrasing skills when communicating with patients, community partners and medical personnel. (ILO: Communication)
CLO#2: Demonstrate the ability to coordinate complex service delivery systems. and knowledge of available community resources, including health and social services. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
CLO#3: Demonstrate the ability to provide culturally appropriate health or nutrition education. (ILO: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Global Consciousness)
CLO#4: Identify findings, patterns, habits, and behaviors that prevent the further development of common diseases/disorders and high-utilization of unnecessary healthcare services and use accepted terminology to describe findings, patterns, habits, and behaviors of clients. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
CLO#5: Demonstrate how to conduct home visitations to monitor health needs and reinforce treatment regimens, report and record abnormal findings, patterns, habits, and behaviors of clients. (ILO: Critical Thinking)