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Health Professions Events

HOSA students are able to hone their skills, gaining confidence in the process, as they work through the events in the Health Professions category. Students get a better understanding of the intricacies involved in being a healthcare professional. It is HOSA's hope that this will allow students to make a well-informed decision regarding a healthcare career path.

Below are the event synopses for the Health Professions Events. Clicking on the link will direct you to the rules and guidelines for the event.

Biotechnology

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: Prepare ingredients for 1x agarose gel in TAE, pour agarose gel, set up and load agarose gel, set up PCR reaction, gel interpretation, centrifugation, Bradford assay, bacterial transformation, and aseptic technique to transfer bacteria .

Laboratory Research Equipment

Clinical (Medical) Lab Science

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: ID lab equipment, infection control-transmission based precautions, inoculating-streaking an agar plate, using a microscope, ABO blood grouping, gram staining, and preparing a lab solution.

AT the LAb

Clinical Nursing

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve medication intramuscular, medication subcutaneous, inserting nasogastric tube, sterile wound irrigation, urethral catheterization, postmortem care of the body, and patient preoperative exercises.

Child Receiving Vaccination

Clinical Specialty

  • Presentation and Skill Event

  • Development of a Career Portfolio for ANY Health Related Career

  • Upload of portfolio may be required

  • Presentation to Judges

  • Procedure Demonstration

Doctor

Dental Science

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: assembly and disassembly of local anesthetic syringe, seating/preparing/dismissing patient for basic dental exam, brushing-flossing, treatment room disinfecting and cleaning, preparing an alginate impression, and ID dental instruments.

Patient and Dentist

Family Med Physician

  • Presentation/Project Event

  • Development of a Career Portfolio in Family Medicine

  • Interviews

  • Peer-to-Peer Presentation

  • Upload of portfolio prior to State Conference may be required

  • Present to Judges

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Home Health Aide

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: taking an adult tympanic temperature, taking an apical pulse, emptying a urinary drainage unit, changing a dry dressing-nonsterile technique, giving a back rub, caring for dentures, moving a client using a draw-sheet, and applying elasticized stockings.

Caregiver with Patient

Medical Assisting

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: telephone screening, recording patient health history, creating an electronic chart, screen for visual acuity, assist with routine physical exam, measure height/weight, urine testing, donning sterile gloves.

Donating Blood

Nursing Assisting

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: hand-washing, making an occupied and closed bed, positioning a patient with a disability in bed, transferring a patient from bed to wheelchair, measure and record vitals, admitting a patient, and caring for an ostomy.

Healthcare professional assisting patient

Occupational Therapy

  • Skill event

  • Round 1 Test 

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve:  Instructing a patient to-put on shirt with one hand, use a sock aid, transfer from floor to sitting, from standing to floor, to take a heart rate before/after activity, stretch break exercises, use proper body mechanics, and proper posture. 

Screwing Nut on Bolt

Patient Care Technician

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve discontinuing peripheral IV, applying compression devices, measuring infant's length /weight, identify components of EKG, and routine ETS venipuncture

Nurse Taking Patient Notes

*Personal Care (IEP event)

  • Skill Event

  • Skills involve: handwashing, donning full set of PPE, making an occupied and closed bed, positioning a patient with a disability in bed, transferring a patient from bed to wheelchair, measure and record vitals, admitting a patient, and caring for an ostomy.

Nurse checking blood pressure

Pharmacy Science

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: , verifying controlled substance prescription content/DEA number, withdrawing liquid from a vial, compounding an oral suspension, patient screening for a pharmacy consult.

Pharmacy

Phlebotomy

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: tourniquet application, routine ETS venipuncture, steps to follow if a patient starts to faint during venipuncture, heel puncture, removing contaminated gloves, accidental arterial stick.

Blood Bags

Physical Therapy

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: ambulating with a gait belt, walker, cane and crutches, range of motion, transfer from supine to sitting position, donning and removing PPE, and ice pack application.

Physical Therapy Session

Respiratory Therapy

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: Basic airway management, administering oxygen via nasal cannula, pulse oximetry, hand-held nebulizer

Triball Incentive Spirometer

Sports Medicine

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: anatomical landmark ID, joint action and assessing ROM, strength of shoulder and ankle, taping (ankle, arch, elbow, thumb).

Kinesiology Taping

Veterinary Science

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: preparing the operative site, lifting and restraining a dog, ID equipment, simple fecal floatation, ID of parasites, ID of animal breeds/species, wrapping a surgical pack, and preparing a feline to obtain a temperature.

Dalmatian Dog

Surgical Tech

  • Skill Event

  • Round 1 Test

  • Round 2 Skill Procedure

  • Skills involve: ID of equipment, surgical scrub methods, open gloving technique, gowning/gloving, passing surgical instruments, and loading/passing surgical sutures.

Kinesiology Taping

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