BAHS Health Professions Catalog

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Health Careers offer endless opportunities to explore, and have many
advantages over other careers including:

Job Security. Health care skills will always be in demand, particularly in direct

patient care areas.

Income. Salaries are often higher in health careers than in jobs requiring the same

amount of education, and are steadily increasing due to high demand.

Geographic Mobility. The skills you learn in your field are needed in business,

industry, schools, hospitals, and other health care settings, which means you can find
employment almost anywhere.

• Have 85% average in all courses in grades 7 and 8.
• Have met requirement for promotion to next grade level.
• Have 90% attendance and satisfactory or better discipline record.
• Pass grade 7 STAAR exams.
• Must enroll and successfully complete 3 or more per year Pre Advanced

Placement or Advanced Placement courses in one area or dual credit.

Do you like…

 Helping people

 Discovering new ideas

 Science and medicine

 Having new experiences

 Learning about how the body
works

Students may graduate with a diploma and portfolio showing strengthened academic skills,
test competencies, employee skills, career entry certification, articulated (college) credit,
leadership experience, community service experience, self-confidence, and self-awareness.

Practicum I, or Clinicals, is a junior-level career education program for students interested
in pursuing a career in health care. The Bel Air Center for Health Professions program
provides students with opportunities to explore a variety of health careers and make
realistic and satisfying career choices. Whether a student is skilled in scientific research
and design, clinical laboratory procedures, written and verbal communication skills, or is
skilled in caring for people, career options are available to match these individual interests
and abilities.

The Bel Air Center for Health Professions is affiliated with Del Sol Medical Center,
University Medical Center and Sierra Providence East, as well as other health care
facilities such as clinics, private practices, and elementary schools where students shadow
a health care provider and experience the health care environment.

The Pharmacy Technician Curriculum provides a
thorough breakdown of the basic essentials deemed
necessary for success in passing the Pharmacy
Technician Certification Exam (PTCE).
 Pharmacy Law and Ethics
 Retail and Institutional Pharmacies
 Pharmacology and Body Systems
 Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) Preparation
 Nutritional and Alternative Substances
 Pharmacy Billing
 Sterile Products
 Dosage Calculations
 Chemotherapy
 Career Development

The Pharmacy Technician Program is a 36-week period classroom with hands on clinical rotation experience. The
objective of the program is to equip students with knowledge, technical skills, and work habits required to become an
integral member of a pharmacy team and prepared for an entry-level position in the pharmacy field. The Pharmacy
Technician Program encourages active student participation and includes group discussions and projects, laboratory
work, simulations, demonstrations, guest speakers, and lectures. A strong emphasis is placed on accountability,
ethics, professionalism, and the individual’s commitment to pursue lifelong personal and professional development.

Students who successfully complete the course and graduate are encouraged to sit for the Pharmacy Technician
Certification Exam (PTCE), the National Sterile Products (IV) Certification, and to apply to the UTEP School of
Pharmacy.

Employment of pharmacy technicians is projected to
grow 20 percent from 2012 – 2022, faster than the
average for all occupations. Several factors will lead
to increased demand for prescription medications.

BEL AIR HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH PROFESSIONS
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

Anatomy and Physiology provides students with the
information needed to build upon allied health
classes and clinical experiences.

Students should not view this course as a hurdle to
cross.

As students jump across a hurdle, in essence, they
return to the same level as they started before
jumping.

Anatomy and Physiology course is an early step on
the ladder that represents their knowledge.

Students may move successfully to the next rung
when they have a solid footing on the rung below.

What is Anatomy & Physiology?

Anatomy is the study of the structures associated with the human body. Physiology is the
study of the function of each of these structures.

Why is it important?

The relationship between health care providers and patients is essential. Patients seek care because an
organ or organ system is not functioning properly in their body. In order to treat them well, medical
practitioners must first understand how the body functions when it is healthy.

 Students of health care need to understand how the effected body
system normally functions. Then they may understand how to treat
illnesses and why the treatment works.

 Health care providers need to be able to explain these things to
patients in a way that patients can understand. When a
practitioner understands something poorly, they may not provide
satisfactory explanations.

 Organ systems are so interconnected that a disease in one
system may result in a symptom in another system. Without
seeing the normal interconnectedness, health professionals
cannot fully understand the disease.

The Dental Program provides students with an exciting experience in the many
fields of Dentistry. Students in the Dental Program will work side by side as
team members with Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists, and Dentists.

BEL AIR HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH PROFESSIONS
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN

Why choose the Emergency Medical Technician Program?

The Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) program is a 36-week class consisting of both
didactic and hands-on learning. The objective of the program is to equip students with
knowledge, technical skills, and work habits required to become an integral member of an
emergency medical team as an EMT-Basic (EMT-B). The EMT-B program encourages
active student participation via hands-on experience and on the job training through clinical
rotations in both the hospital emergency room and ambulance.

Quick Facts: EMTs and Paramedics

2016 Median Pay $32,670 per year
$15.71 per hour
Typical Entry-Level Postsecondary non-
Education degree award

Work Experience in a None
Related Occupation
None
On-the-job Training

Number of Jobs, 2016 248,000
15% Growth (Much
Job Outlook, 2016-26 faster than average)
Employment Change,
37,400
2016-26

7 Cool Reasons to be an EMT

1. Every day is different Employment of emergency medical technicians
2. In-demand job (EMTs) and paramedics is projected to grow 15
3. Growth potential percent from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the
4. Diverse opportunities average for all occupations.
5. Helping people
6. Professional level

certification
7. Build solid life skills

BEL AIR HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH PROFESSIONS
LICENSED VOCATIONAL NURSING

Quick Facts: Licensed Practical and
Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN)

2016 Median Pay $44,090 per year
$21.20 per hour

Typical Entry-Level Education Postsecondary
non-degree award

Work Experience in a Related None
Occupation

On-the-job Training None

Number of Jobs, 2016 724,500

Job Outlook, 2016-26 12% (Faster than
average)

Employment Change, 2016-26 88,600

About the LVN Program

 The Vocational Nursing class at Bel Air is offered as an extension of the El Paso Community College
(EPCC) Nursing Class. It is a two-year, two-summer program.

 All Nursing classes require classroom and clinical training. Students train in long-term care facilities
and local hospitals.

 The summer courses are taken at EPCC. The first summer students take Medication Administration and
Pharmacology. The second summer they take Maternal Child and Pediatric Nursing.

 At the end of the junior year, students are eligible to take the State Nursing Assistant Test.

 After completing the second set of summer classes, students are then eligible to take state boards.

Employment of licensed practical and licensed
vocational nurses is projected to grow 12 percent
from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all
occupations. As the baby boomer population ages,
the overall need for health care services is expected
to increase.

BEL AIR HIGH SCHOOL HEALTH PROFESSIONS
PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPORTS MEDICINE)

Do you like…

 Helping people
 Discovering new ideas
 Science and medicine
 Having new experiences
 Learning about how the body

works

Why choose the Physical Therapy Program

The Physical Therapy Program is designed to prepare the student to be a competent
physical therapy technician, and an integral member of the health care team. Students are
trained to have an impact in the total rehabilitation of every patient by helping them reach
realistic functional outcomes while respecting the rights of individuals. Students may
receive three months to one year of on the job training that the State of Texas requires to
become a Physical Therapy Technician.

Job Outlook

Employers Projected  The median annual salary for physical therapists was $79,860 in
growth by 2018 2012

Offices of therapists 54%  The best paid 10 percent of workers in this category made
$112,020 while the bottom 10 percent made $55,620.
Home health care services 47%
 The highest wages are for home health care and consulting
Office of physicians 34% positions.

Nursing care facilities 25%
12%
Hospitals, public and
private

Self-employed workers 5%

Income

US Veterinarians earn between $55,000 and $75,000 annually,
depending upon the cost of living in the practice area and type
of medicine practiced.

1 Year of
Principles of Health
Science

1 Year of Health Science Theory

Programs of Apply for Specialized
Study Program
• Dental Assistant II
• Clinical/Practicum Rotations • EMT Basic
• Dental Assistant • Internships
• Emergency Medical Technician • LVN II (selection of students

(EMT Basic) from LVN I)
• Medical Billing and Coding
• Medical Billing and Coding • Medical Microbiology
• Medical Microbiology • Pharmacy Technician
• Pharmacy Technician • Physical Therapy Intern
• Physical Therapy Technician
• Student Vocational Nursing IMPORTANT DATES

(LVN Dual Credit)  January 10, 2018- Deadline to submit
• Veterinarian Technician application

 End of March 2018- Notification of acceptance
letters mailed to students

 May 2018- Orientation for HP candidates

Email Contact Information:

Robert Robledo- [email protected] (AP)
Rosie Mota- [email protected] (Counselor)
Charles Garcia- [email protected] (Principal)