Health

HLTH 123 provides an opportunity for students to discover their suitability for a career in direct client care and clinical medicine. Personal and cultural values and practices, professional conduct, and team-based care will be explored. In depth study will focus on medical terminology, common illnesses, interviewing patients, clinical cases, health care service models, workforce, and provider organizations. Safety/OSHA/HIPPA, CPR/AED certification, payor systems, and health ethics. Concepts and skills learned will be supplemented with site visits to healthcare facilities and guest lectures from selected healthcare professionals.

HLTH 123C will be taught by a registered nurse and satisfies the requirements for the State of Hawaii Certified Nurses Aide Licensure. This course provides an opportunity for students to discover their suitability for a career in direct client care and clinical medicine. Personal and cultural values and practices, professional conduct, and team-based care will be explored. In depth study will focus on medical terminology, common illnesses, interviewing patients, clinical cases, health care service models, workforce, and provider organizations. Safety/OSHA/HIPPA, CPR/AED certification, payor systems and health ethics. Concepts and skills learned will be supplemented with site visits to healthcare facilities and guest lectures from selected healthcare professionals.

Intro to Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing combines traditional and Western healing knowledge and care giving skills. Training in the Native Hawaiian traditional healing practices focuses on mālama kupuna (elder care), mālama ʻaina (agricultural practices), ʻai pono (healthy nutrition), hoʻoponopno (mutual reciprocation), lomilomi (massage), and lāʻau lapaʻau (plant medicine). The Western elements of the course focuses on human anatomy, medical terminology, basic nursing care, basic home care, nutrition, basic personal care, patient interaction and communication, dressing, bathing and feeding patients, helping patients get out of bed or move about, taking patients' temperature, blood pressure and pulse, and reporting to nurses.

Intro to Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing combines traditional and Western healing knowledge and caregiving skills. HLTH 124C will be taught by a registered nurse and satisfies the requirements for the State of Hawaii Certified Nurses Aid licensure. Intro to Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing combines traditional and Western healing knowledge and care giving skills. Training in the Native Hawaiian traditional healing practices focuses on mālama kūpuna (elder care), mālama ʻaina (agricultural practices), ʻai pono (healthy nutrition), hoʻoponopno (mutual reciprocation), lomilomi (massage), and lāʻau lapaʻau (plant medicine). The Western elements of the course focuses on human anatomy, medical terminology, basic nursing care, basic home care, nutrition, basic personal care, patient interaction and communication, dressing, bathing and feeding patients, helping patients get out of bed or move about, taking patients' temperature, blood pressure and pulse, and reporting to nurses.

This course is a practicum companion to HLTH 124 and prepares students to work in non-long-term care settings. However, it does not qualify students to sit for the State of Hawaiʻi Nurse Aide exam to become a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA). Intro to Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing combines traditional Western healing knowledge and care giving skills. Training in the Native Hawaiian traditional healing practices focuses on mälama kapuna (elder care), mälama ʻaina (agricultural practices), kaʻaʻike waha (communication), ʻai Pono (healthy nutrition), hoʻoponopono (mutual restitution), lomilomi (massage), and lāʻau lapaʻau (plant medicine). Western knowledge focuses on human anatomy, medical terminology, basic nursing care, basic home care, emergency care, nutrition, dressing, bathing and feeding patients, taking patients' temperature, blood pressure and pulse, and reporting too nurses. (3 hours Clinical Instruction)

This course is a practicum companion to HLTH 124 and is required for students planning to qualify to sit for the State of Hawaii Nurse Aide exam to become a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA). Intro to Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing combines traditional Western healing knowledge and care giving skills. Training in the Native Hawaiian traditional healing practices focuses on mālama kūpuna (elder care), mālama ʻaina (agricultural practices), kaʻaʻike waha (communication), ʻai Pono (healthy nutrition), hoʻoponopono (mutual restitution), lomilomi (massage), and lāʻau lapaʻau (plant medicine). Western knowledge focuses on human anatomy, medical terminology, basic nursing care, basic home care, emergency care, nutrition, dressing, bathing and feeding patients, taking patients' temperature, blood pressure and pulse, and reporting too nurses. (3 hours clinical instruction)