The Health Tech Program is offered to all juniors and seniors. This program is a good foundation for students who want to go into nursing and/or other healthcare occupations after graduation. Students are required to take Chemistry and Anatomy & Physiology along with this program. One of the Health Tech courses, Medical Terminology, can be taken as a CCP credit course.

Senior Year Overview

Senior students will collect vital signs including temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, blood pressure and perform phlebotomy procedures with emphasis on infection prevention, universal precautions, proper patient identification, specimen acquisition, handling, and processing. Seniors will also be able to take their Medical Terminology course as a CCP course. This course focuses on defining medical terms with an emphasis on building a working medical vocabulary. Topics include using the appropriate abbreviations and symbols for anatomical, physiological and pathological classifications and the associated medical specialties and procedures that will help students interpret and translate medical records and documents. 

Health Tech students also participate in the Lancaster SkillsUSA chapter, where they gain many valuable leadership skills and can compete at the state and national level. Recent past students have won many awards at the regional and state level!

Instructor: Shelly Carpenter || [email protected]