COOL LINKS

As we find websites that our teachers and students might find useful, we will add them here.

Curriculum

Health Care Provider Shortage

Instructional Strategies
Financial Aid

Grant Writing

National

State

Other

  • Free Nurse Tutor for students and instructors.  Included GAme Room, Nurse and health news, book mall, greeting cards, game room, video links, educational links and Instructor Corner  http://freenursetutor.com/
  • Spanish for Healthcare Providers, an online training course available through CareerTech is FREE!!!! It is a ten module course covering the alphabet, greetings, interrogatives, articles, prepositions, numbers, colors, family, parts of the body and verbs. It also includes a glossary, link to resources and a graded final test. You can connect to the course link at: http://divisions.okcareertech.org/ruralhealth/spanish/SpanishForHealthCareWorkers/Done/index_new.htm
    For a supplemental spiral bound glossary that fits in your scrub pocket, order directly from CareerTech Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center:  https://ctes.okcareertech.org:4443/OA_HTML/odcte/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10084
  • http://www.kidz4troops.com/
    Participate in HOSA Community Service by sending a letter or blog to our troops. Chapters can also read letters to make sure they maintain a positive tone and/or financially support the shipment of letters to Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • http://www.freerice.com/
    Another community service opportunity for students while they practice literacy skills. Rice is donated to the UN World Food Program for each word students get right. Options can be set for different levels of difficulty or the game will automatically set to your highest level.

  • "NIOSH Safety Checklists Program for Schools and Other Safety Databases." ( A find from ACTE)
    The safety checklists program is based on 82 safety checklists that are derived from OSHA and EPA regulations.  The CD-ROM is intended for use by educators, supervisors and superintendents of high schools, career and technical schools, and community colleges, as well as by professors at colleges and universities to ensure that their programs adhere to federal OS&H regulations and to provide them access to other useful OS&H information. http://www.acteonline.org/resource_center/nioshfreecd.cfm

  • Check out this website at PBS for a virtual heart transplant:   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/transplant.html

  • Forensics:   

 

Products

Great posters, pencils, etc., you can order a 6 minute video explaining health careers or a four video set that gives occupational information on 64 different health careers:  http://www.okoha.com/StaticContent/StaticPages/MEMBERS_ONLY/Workforce_Issues2004.htm/Health%20Careers%20Order%20Form.pdf

Order "Health Care Heroes" pins, posters, and brochures (great for adults), a speakers kit that gives power point/overheads loaded with facts about health occupations in Oklahoma and for HOSA, the Health Care Heroes Coloring Book on CD ROM:  http://www.okoha.com/StaticContent/StaticPages/MEMBERS_ONLY/Workforce_Issues2004.htm/Health%20Careers%20Order%20Form.pdf

Managing Hazardous Material Incidents    http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/mhmi.html

Student Liability Insurance;    www.cmfgroup.com   After you click on the "Quick Browse" Button, click on "Health Care Student Group." That will take you to another window listing all the rates, and on the left hand side is the pdf application itself which can be downloaded. There is also a pdf for a sample policy.

 

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Links provided as a convenience for information,  not as an endorsement.

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11/03/2008
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