National Healthcare Foundation Skills Assessment

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National Healthcare Foundation Skills Assessment

• Michigan State Board of Education Meeting
• October 13, 2009

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Perkins IV Requirement

• Student attainment of career and technical skill
  proficiencies, including student achievement on
  technical assessments, that are aligned with
  industry-recognized standards

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Assessment and AccountabilityAdvisory Group

• Originally formed to provide input to OCTE to
  develop the Perkins State Plan
• Will continue as an advisory group throughout the
  CTE assessment program

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Health Science Assessment

• NCHSE was the advisory group used to develop the
  Health Career Cluster standards
• National Healthcare Foundation Skills Assessment
  was developed in alignment with the standards

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Assessment Item Academic Foundation

• 1.12 Recognize body planes, directional terms,
  quadrants, and cavities.
• If the body were cut in a transverse plane, what
  organs would be in the same half?
• Spinal cord and occipital lobe of the brain
• Heart and thyroid gland
• Right ovary and right lung
• Brain and bladder

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Assessment Item Safety Practices

• 7.21 Apply personal safety procedures based on
  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  (OSHA) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  regulations.
• What book would include Material Safety Data
  Sheets?
• Red Cross "Emergency Care and Safety"
• "CDC Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards"
• "Living and Driving Safely" by Mothers Against
  Drunk Driving
• A hospital "Policies and Procedures Manual"

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Assessment Item Legal Responsibilities

• 5.24 Understand informed consent.
• Which of these patients would require the consent
  of another person before a medical professional
  can provide treatment?
• A married 18 year-old girl with an abscessed
  tooth
• An adult patient who refuses to have x-rays taken
• A boy on his middle school baseball team who
  twisted his ankle
• An unconscious man who needs emergency surgery

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National Cut Scores

• As with most occupational licensing and
  certification exams, a group of business and
  industry experts determines the necessary
  knowledge and skills needed for an entry level
  worker

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Status of CTE Assessments

• 2009-2010
• Continuation with Finance
• Marketing
• Education and Training
• Transportation, Distribution and Logistics
• Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

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Contact

• For more information, contact
• Patty Cantú, Director
• Office of Career and Technical Education
• 241-2900
• cantup_at_michigan.gov