Curriculum

Contact Tracer Training Curriculum

Designed with career readiness in mind, the online Contact Tracer Training curriculum covers the fundamental concepts necessary to succeed on the job. Learners will cover the medical terms and principles of exposure, infection, infectious period, potentially infectious interactions, symptoms of disease, pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic infection, and more.

Contact Tracer

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Full Program Overview

Average completion time: 1-3 mo

Lessons

By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Identify the components of interpersonal communication
- Describe the skills required for effective oral communication
- List the best practices and prejudices involved in forming effective workplace communication
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Describe the essential elements of therapeutic communication
- Explain the ways that technology can enhance or become a barrier to communication
- Identify skills and strategies used to communicate with clients and families
- Discuss different ways of communicating with clients with behavioral and other disabilities
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Analyze the court's role in healthcare information and litigation
- Examine patient's medical record requirements and common issues
- Summarize the common-law basis for confidentiality
- Apply privacy rules to patient information
- Describe OSHA's safety rules
- Identify special types of health information
- Recognize special rules and social-policy issues of HIV patients
- Evaluate risk management's effect on quality and electronic medical records
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Explain the components of fostering positive relations between service provider and patient
- Describe how to develop effective relationships with patients, team members, other personnel, and patients’ families
- State the importance of communicating effectively in the healthcare setting
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Explain how to create a Word file
- Apply formats to a document
- Identify how to compose documents with images, shapes, and graphics
- Explain how to create an Excel document
- Recognize how to use Excel to analyze data
- Describe how to create an integrated document
- Describe how to create a mail merge document
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Recognize specialized fields in pathology, common terms used in pathology, and the history of pathology
- Identify techniques used by healthcare providers to obtain information about disease
- Explain how pathologists examine differences between cells and attempt to determine causes
- Recognize how cell adaptation and injury occurs
- Describe how microorganisms grow and multiply
- Recognize how pathogens cause infection and can be spread
- Describe how the human body protects against pathogens
- Explain how healthcare workers can protect themselves from contracting infectious diseases