Health Care

Class IX / Subject Code - 406
This is the basic course in Health Care where students will get exposure to working in hospitals. The subject gives them a vast and wide insight into the traditional and contemporary aspects in Health care. The input of basic fundamentals, coupled with practical knowledge.

Course Objective

In this course, followings are the main objectives of this course.

  • To understand the clinical duties that include taking and recording vital parameters, medical histories, preparing patients for examination and dispensing medical prescriptions..

Course Features

  • To understand the utility of daily living activities.
  • To have an elementary knowledge of common health problems and the procedures to deal with them
Instructor

“This basic course of Health Care will teach the students to learn how to analyze customer demand and promote good care to patients in the hospital. This course will allow students to work in many different areas of paramedical departments. ”

Course Content

  • Describe Healthcare Delivery Systems
  • Identify Components and Activities of a Hospital
  • Describe the Roles and Functions of a Clinic
  • Describe the Rehabilitation Care Facilities
  • Describe the Long Term Care Facilities
  • Hospice Care
  • Describe the role of a Patient Care Assistant
  • Identify Various Activities of Patient’s Daily Care
  • Describe the Basic Requirements for Patient Comfort
  • Describe the Various Aspects of Patient’s Safety
  • Describe the Qualities of a Good Patient Care Assistant
  • Biomedical Waste and Its Management
  • Demonstrate Good Hygiene Practice
  • Describe Factors Affecting Good Health
  • Perform Hand Washing Methods
  • Demonstrate Personal Grooming
  • Describe Essential Components of Primary Healthcare and Emergency Medical Response
  • Demonstrate the Chain of Survival
  • Differentiate between various types of Immunity.
  • Describe the Immunization Schedule.
  • Describe Key Components of the Universal Immunization Programme.
  • The Pulse Polio Immunization Programme.