Health Care_Unit Benchmarks
Culminating Activity Description: Simulation – Learners are nurse assistants in a nursing center for the elderly. Learners must
complete two procedures: help resident sit up and eat. Learners record care in the resident’s medical chart.
Section Product:
 Learners will produce…
1. Personal essay on job
preferences regarding
health care careers
Reading/Writing Skills
Strategies
 Understand concept of
preference
 Complete a multiple
choice survey about
preferences
 Determine own preference
 Write about own
preference
Speaking/Listening Skills
Strategies
 Prepare and pose
informational interview
questions
 Take notes from live
presentations
 Participate in discussions,
synthesize group
information into
presentation
2. Demonstration of ability  Understand proper
 Use polite language for
to assist residents in sitting procedures from texts and greetings and requests
up and eating
demonstrations
 Demonstrate active
listening skills
 Interpret verbal and nonverbal communication
3. Medical chart for
resident’s health record
 Understand concept and
use of health record and
medical chart
 Read sample charts
 Write accurate and
concise notes in medical
chart
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 Actively listen
 Distinguish fact from
opinion
 Draw conclusions
(extension)
Grammar:
Basic Literacy:
 Form yes/no and
informational questions
 Understand difference
between complete
sentences and notes
 Understand when to use
complete sentences &
when to use notes
Numeracy:
Technology:
 Produce printed document
in Microsoft Word
 Use conditionals for
politeness
 Form yes/no and
informational questions
 Form questions
 Write notes
 Create medical chart as
Microsoft Word table
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Health Care_Unit Benchmarks
Unit Theme: _Health Care____ ELL Level: _Intermediate___________
Culminating Activity Description: Simulation – Learners are nurse assistants in a nursing center for
the elderly. Learners must complete two procedures: help resident sit up and eat. Learners record
care in the resident’s medical chart.
Timeline Section Product 1 Benchmarks
Materials
Activity Product 1 Activity Product 2 Activity Product 3
6 days
Personal essay on See above
Survey on personal interest in Results from survey Response Questions Demonstration of
job preferences
careers from MN Careers, 2009 of interest in
sheet for nursing
active listening skills
regarding health
careers recorded in assistants videos
care careers: “Is a
3 videos on nursing assistants Career Discovery
health care career
(available on YouTube)
Journal
right for me?”
Response Questions for Nursing
Assistant Videos
Reading: Active Listening
Active Listening Practice
Guide cards for active listening
skills
Visit from a nursing assistant –
question / answer sheet
Career pathways chart
Activity Product 4 Activity Product 5
List of questions to Career pathways
ask visiting Nursing chart filled in for 3
Assistant
health care careers
Activity Product 6
List of things to
watch for/questions
to ask during field
trip to Nursing
Center
Activity Product 7
Personal essay: “Is a
health care career
right for me?” = SP1
Field trip learning guide
Career Discovery Journals
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Timeline Section Product 2 Benchmarks
Materials
4 days
Demonstration of See above
Polite Greetings, Requests
ability to assist
and Offers – Info Sheet
residents in sitting
up and eating
Practice with Modals for
Requests and Offers
Activity Product 1
Production of polite
greetings and
requests with modals
& imperative
Activity Product 2
Demonstration of
how to help a
resident sit up in bed
Activity Product 3
List of strategies for
communicating with
residents/patients
(create poster, based
on discussion with
pre-CNA students)
Video on how to help
someone sit up in bed
(available on YouTube)
How to Help a Resident
Sit Up in Bed – Info Sheet
Activity Product 4 Activity Product 5 Activity Product 6
Discussion guide for visit Demonstration of
Steps filled in on
Completed
from Pre-CNA students helping resident eat Performance
performance
Evaluation Forms for evaluation for
How to Help a Resident
evaluating 2 CNA
helping resident sit
Eat – Info Sheet
skills: sitting up and up or eat
feeding
Food & serving
equipment: crackers,
yogurt, canned peas,
plates, spoons, large
napkins, wash cloths, can
opener
Performance Evaluation
Form
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Timeline Section Product 3 Benchmarks
Materials
Activity Product 1
3 days
Medical chart for
See above
Medical Records (modified
Question sheet on
resident’s health
reading & chart/questions from medical chart
record
Basic Skills for Nursing
Assistants in Long-Term Care,
p. 171-172)
Extension: On the Job reading
& questions from Health
Occupations, p. 14
Activity Product 2 Activity Product 3
Medical chart
Filled in medical
created in MS Word chart based on video
(can use blank
of feeding a resident
medical chart
provided, or teach Ss
to use table in MS
Word to create their
own)
Blank medical chart
Complete Sentences or Notes?
+ Writing Notes in a Medical
Chart – reading and practice
sheet
Activity Product 4 Activity Product 5 Activity Product 6
Fact and opinion
cards placed in
correct categories
Video on feeding a resident
(available on YouTube)
Fact vs. opinion reading &
questions (from Health
Occupations, pp. 80-81, 83)
Fact or Opinion? chart and
cards
Extension: Drawing
conclusions reading from
Health Occupations, p. 96-99
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Calendar (17 days)
Day Plan
1
Discussion of choice in careers, survey of interest in careers, results recorded in Career Discovery Journal (AP1-1)
2
Discussion of health careers, videos on nursing assistants, response sheets for videos (AP1-2)
3
Active listening: what it is, how to do it, student practice & demonstrations (AP 1-3); homework: questions for visiting nurse
assistant (AP 1-4)
4
Visit from Nurse Assistant
5
Reflection/response to Nurse Assistant visit, write thank-you note, fill in career pathways grid for nurse assistant and/or
other health careers (AP 1-5)
6
Polite greetings & requests, student demonstrations (AP 2-1); learn, watch video & demo how to help a resident sit up in bed
(AP 2-2)
7
Visit from Pre-CNA students – discussion: starting on a career in health care, discussion of strategies for communicating
with residents. Groups make lists of strategies for communicating with residents (AP 2-3).
8
Learn and demonstrate how to feed a resident (AP 2-4)
9
Discussion of performance evaluations, fill in perform. eval. steps for 2 nursing skills: helping resident sit up & feeding
resident. (AP 2-5). Teacher demo of one skill, students evaluate using filled-in performance evaluation forms (AP 2-6)
10
Read/understand medical chart, answer question sheet (AP 3-1). Create medical chart as a table in MS Word (AP 3-2).
11
Complete Sentences or Notes? Reading & practice sheet. Watch video on feeding a resident; students fill in medical chart
with notes based on what they see (AP 3-3)
12
Fact or Opinion? Reading, chart & cards (AP 3-4) . Extension activity: Drawing Conclusions reading and exercises from
Health Occupations. Homework: list of what to watch for/questions to ask during visit to Nursing Center (AP 1-6)
13
Visit to Nursing Center
14
Reflection on visit, write personal essay in Career Discovery Journals: Is a health care career right for me? (AP 1-7)
15
Preparation for Culminating Activity: make teams, choose roles, prepare materials, practice skills
16
Culminating Activity: Simulation – learners are nurse assistants in a nursing center for the elderly. Learners must complete 2
procedures: help residents sit up and eat. Learners record care in the resident’s medical chart.
17
Reflection on Culminating Activity. Evaluation of self and team. Celebration of end of unit.
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