Clinical Internship
Grade Level:  12^th (last class period of day)
Credits:  1(full year) Teacher Approval
Students may choose to complete a clinical internship after completing Medical Therapeutics, Diagnostics Medicine, or EMS.  The internships are designed to be completed in a hospital, nursing home, medical office, rehab center, or other health care facility.

Health Science Education
Grade Level: 9^th- 10^thh
Credits: 1 (full-year)
Students are introduced to health careers, safety measures, growth and development, body systems, basic anatomy and physiology, CPR/first aid, and environmental and community health.  This overview is designed to help students look at health care from a provider perspective and to help choose a specific area of focus.  This course serves as a foundation for all health science courses.  First Aid and CPR certification will be obtained.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
Grade Level: 11^th- 12^th (even years ex. 2007/08)
Credits:  1 (full-year) (Honors option available)
Prerequisite: Health Science
Emergency Medical Services provides students with knowledge and skills for the emergency medical field responsibilities to include CPR, first aid and the use of emergency equipment.  Upon completion of this course, a student may enroll in a clinical internship which can articulate to post-secondary education or an entry level position in the emergency room.

Forensic Science
Grade Level: 11^th – 12^th (odd years ex. 2008/09)
Credits: 1 (full-year)
Prerequisite: Health Science
Forensic Science is an overview of how science is applied to solving crimes.  Topics including history of forensic sciences, collecting of evidence, analyzing results and hands-on application of many laboratory techniques used in solving crimes and identifying people and future careers.  Students will participate in a mock (staged) crime scene to apply knowledge and skills gained.

Medical Therapeutics
Grade Level: 10^th – 11^th (odd years ex. 2008/09)
Credits:  1 (full-year)
Prerequisite:  Health Science
In Medical Therapeutics students will evaluate the ways therapeutic medicine is used to focus on direct patient care.  This could include nursing, medicine, dentistry, psychotherapy, and other allied health careers.  Students learn to monitor and care for client status by learning CPR, first aid, basic pharmacology and additional care skills.  This course is the basis for Nursing Education and is taught mainly as a pre-nursing class while being a prerequisite for the nursing program.  Students may elect to enroll in a clinical internship following completion of this course.

Nursing Education
Grade Level: 12^th
Credits:  1 (full-year but 2 periods blocked)
Prerequisite: Health Science) (Honors option)
Students learn and apply skills for successful entrance into a nursing career.  The skills include verbal and nonverbal communication, physical and psychological assessments, direct patient care, emergency medical techniques, and team membership.  The clinical internship of 100 hours in a long term care facility is required for the Tennessee state test for nurses’ aide.  Additional hours are implemented in the classroom and clinical settings upon completion of this course.  A student may enroll in postsecondary education or enter the work force in an entry-level position.  This course meets all federal and state requirements for a certified nurse’s aid.  Student must obtain TB test, hepatitis B vaccine series prior to clinical rotation.  All students will be required to obtain 100% accuracy on OSHA/Standard Precautions test.  Students must provide transportation to and from clinical site.  The class is a two period block with one (1) credit offering due to the travel requirements for onsite hospital and nursing home visits and work.