Climbing to the Top of a Career Ladder

Ivy Tech Community College - Northeast

School of Health Sciences Options

•Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

•Dementia Care

•Phlebotomy

•Pharmacy Technician

•EMT and Paramedic

•Electrocardiogram Tech (EKG Tech)

•Home Health Aide

Typical Incoming Students

•Entry Level; Reading, Writing, Math Skills Minimal

•Beginning College Student

•Pre Health Care Student (all areas)

•Visual Learners

•Displaced Workers

Visual Learners•Need to see and hear about a skill

•Reading not especially useful

•Verbalization alone not effective

•Understand AFTER they see it

•How do you show something to them enough times to make it stick?

Video Interactive Learning Objects

•Students view a short video demonstration

•Listen to the narration

•Read key points on the screen

•Reinforce with quizzes built in

•Viewed in class initially, then are available 24/7 online free of charge

•http://ivyvilos.com/

How do students use them?

Preview Skills out of

class

Preview Skills in Class

Review Skills Prior to

Competency Checks

Review Skills Prior to State

Testing

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How often did they use them?

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How confident did they become?

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What are the competency pass

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•2010-2011 year = 98%

•before and after 92%

•before was with 1:1 remediation

•language barrier

Remaining Barrier

•Language Skills

•Burmese, ESOL

•Funding

SUCCESS!

•Standing on the first rung of the ladder in beginning a career in Health Sciences

Let’s Try One!

•http://www.ivyvilos.com/

•Hand Washing

•Wheelchair Transfer

Quiz Questions

•char

•type quiz questions for hand washing

•type quiz questions for wheelchair

Handwashing

•Why is it important that you don’t use water that is extremely hot?

•A. The cost of hot water

•B. Skin irritation

•C. It may harm the resident

•D. All of the above

Handwashing

•What part of the hands contain the most pathogens?

•A. Palms

•B. Nails

•C. Between fingers

•D. Wrists

Transferring to Wheelchair

•What side of the bed do you place the wheelchair?

•A. Unaffected

•B. Affected

•C. Either

Transfer to Wheelchair

•Why do you transport a resident through an open door forward and a closed door backwards?

•A. So you won’t hit other people with the wheelchair

•B. So the wheelchair will move properly.

•C. Prevents the door from closing on the resident.

Why do you lock the wheel-chair at the destination?

•A. To restrain the resident.

•B. So the patient can’t move it.

•C. Prevents the wheelchair from rolling if the resident attempts to get up.

Career Paths

Of Students that Used the VILOs

Health Sciences Careers Ladders

Master’s Degrees

Prepares for further leadership roles.Saint Francis UniversityHealth Care Administration (MHA)Trine UniversityLeadership (MS)Nonprofit Organizational Studies (MS)

Bachelor’s Degree

Prepares for medical office management and other leadership roles.Huntington University:Health Care Informatics Human Resources ManagementTrine University:Healthcare ManagementEmergency Management

Associate of Applied Sciences

Health Care Support

Requires Two Certificates

Prepares graduates to pursue further employment opportunities and transfer into management positions.

Certificate Certificate Certificate Certificate

Electrocardiogram Technician

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

And QMA

Pharmacy Technician Phlebotomy

Hospitals

Cardiac Clinics

Telemetry

Physician Offices

Long term health care facilities

Inpatient facilities

Rehabilitation facilities

Hospital Pharmacy

Retail Pharmacy

Long Term Care Pharmacy

Hospitals

Clinics

Physician Offices

Laboratories

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Life Sciences Consortium

•During Fall 2012-2014

•Moved to one location

•Ivy Tech Community College

•Huntington University

•St. Francis University

•Trine University