Rochester Community and Technical College · Courses
HLTH
10 courses with the subject HLTH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HLTH 1102Industrial Safety and First Aid2
TOTAL………………………………………………………………………………………….16 CREDITS PROGRAM OUTCOMES: Upon completion of the Trades Readiness training at RCTC, learners will achieve the following outcomes: • Show skills in communication, confident decision-making, and teamwork enabling students to work as a productive member of a construction crew. • Demonstrate the safe use of the appropriate tools, materials, and techniques as required to carry out work on a building project. • Read and interpret information from blueprints and specifications. • Estimate materials and labor costs to complete a building project. • Perform general carpentry skills, apply codes, and safety standards. • Adapt a sense of pride, professionalism, and the desire to progress and excel in the construction trades. • Build character and gain confidence to seek employment within the skilled trades. ADDITIONAL NOTES: PURPOSE: Trade Readiness Certificate – as individuals seek a pathway into the construction industry, many will need to receive initial training like tool identification, construction math, safety, and employment strategies. This certificate will allow learners to obtain the necessary skills for entry level positions, union apprenticeships, or continued learning towards a diploma or degree. Revised: 5/14/2023 Implementation: Fall 2023
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course prepares the student to recognize an emergency, implement an emergency action plan, provide basic emergency care, and learn methods of preventing injuries and emergencies. Skill assessment will be included for the following: assessing a victim; breathing emergencies; obstructed airway techniques; CPR techniques for conscious and unconscious adults, children, and infants; control of bleeding; treating shock; and applying splints and slings. Upon successful completion of the American Red Cross Community First Aid & Safety criteria, and testing fee payment, students successfully completing this course will receive the appropriate certificates from the American Red Cross. (
HLTH 1110CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer-Health Care Provider1
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course will provide the professional rescuer with the knowledge and skills necessary to help sustain life and minimize the consequences of respiratory and cardiac emergencies until more advanced medical personnel arrive. Specific skills addressed through lecture, demonstration, video, scenarios, discussion, and practice include adult/child/infant CPR, two- rescuer procedures, and AED training. The course includes certification in American Red Cross-CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer. After successfully completing all components of the class, students may receive the American Red Cross certification. A fee is required for certification. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course allows students to explore and assess how a number of major health concepts influence their lives. The class includes a study of stress, mental health, human sexuality, nutrition and fitness, drugs, disease, aging, death and dying, consumerism and health care, and ecology, violence and safety. This course is designed to help the individual student understand and cope with their environment and to be a responsible citizen. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course allows students to explore many of the historical and current patterns associated with the use of drugs in our society and other cultures and societies of the world. Students will examine their attitudes, values, and assumptions concerning drug use. Discussions will include the social, legal, medical, psychological, and rehabilitative aspects of drug use. (Prerequisites:
HLTH 1135Holistic Health: Introduction to Complementary Health3
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This introductory course to holistic health allows students to explore complementary/alternative therapies such as acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal remedies, homeopathy, aromatherapy and biomagnetic therapy. Discussions will include the social, political and economic aspects of holistic health care, and the healing aspects of humor, exercise and nutrition. Updated research and the insurance industries views on alternative therapies will also be discussed. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to lead students through techniques for time and stress management. Helping students identify how to manage their time, responsibilities and applying positive coping mechanisms is key to quality in day-to-day living and lowering negative stress. Topics to be explored are health implications to negative stress, and application of positive coping strategies such as, but not limited to meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, breathing techniques, journaling, exercise, and nutrition. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course examines lifestyle choices dealing with many aspects of overall health prevention and promotion. This course will identify major health issues confronting women today, by exploring issues from the traditional medical model to the holistic model using an integrative approach to wellness. This course will include an overview of critical contemporary women's health topics such as exercise, nutrition, stress management, pregnancy, labor and childbirth, menopause, heart disease, self-esteem, domestic violence, and other issues as they affect today's women. (
