5/9/2025 8:48:46 AM	CHW 51L Course Outline as of Fall 2001	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  CHW 51L	Title:  COMM HEALTH EXPERIENCE
Full Title:  Community Health Experience
Last Reviewed:2/26/2018

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	.50		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	8.75
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		17.5 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	.50			Contact Total	8.75
		Non-contact DHR	7.50			Non-contact DHR Total	131.25

Total Out of Class Hours:  17.50

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade Only
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  CHW 52AL

Catalog Description:

Community Health Worker students will spend 8 hours a week for 16 weeks in a Sonoma County health clinic, agency, or organization and the community it serves, practicing skills learned in Essential Skills for Community Health Work, CHW 51.  One hour every other week will be spent in a seminar with their clinical instructor.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Community Health Worker students will spend 8 hours a week for 16 weeks in a Sonoma County health clinic, agency, or organization and the community it serves, practicing skills learned in CHW 51. One hour every other week will be spent in a seminar with their clinical instructor.

(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Spring 1998	Inactive:	Summer 2005
UC Transfer:		Effective:		Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Certificate Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

At the completion of this course the student will be able to:

1.  Learn, compare, and contrast duties and scope of practice of CHWs.

2.  Learn, compare, and contrast how CHWs work with other health care team

   members.

3.  Identify effective communication skills, including communication with

   people from other cultures.

4.  Practice problem-solving and decision-making skills at the workplace.

5.  Describe client-interviewing experiences during work experience

   assignments, using knowledge and skills from Essential Skills I class.

6.  Identify correct health education and counseling methods after

   watching a health education session in the workplace.

7.  Successfully apply case management skills through work experience

   assignments.

8.  Prepare and present an effective client care plan.

9.  Practice job skills such as managing time, communicating with health

   team members, and planning a project.

Topics and Scope

1.  Eight hours of work experience each week, working in a Community

   Health Worker position in an assigned agency or clinic.

2.  Attendance at one hour of seminar every other week with their Health

   Experience instructor/supervisor.  Instructor will review and discuss

   with students successful field work related to scope of practice,

   encouraging critical thinking and supportive problem solving and

   decision making to deal with health experience challenges (see #3).

3.  CHW scope of practice: client interviews, demonstrating their

   knowledge of CHW scope of practice, observing client interviews,

   identifying correct health education and counseling methods, applying

   case management skills, preparing a client care plan, and

   communicating with health team members.

Assignments:

Example:

Observe a health professional such as, nurse, social worker,

physician's assistant, medical assistant, physician, or experienced

CHW conducting a first-time client interview. Prepare and present a report

or roleplay on the following subjects:

   1.  What did the interviewer do to help the client feel comfortable as

       the interview began?

   2.  How did s/he describe the purpose of the interview?

   3.  How did s/he show confidentiality in what s/he said and where the

       interview was located.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 5 - 10%
Written homework
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 5 - 10%
Case Management Studies
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 20 - 25%
communication, conflict management, team work
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 0 - 0%
None
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 50 - 60%
Satisfactory evaluation, attendance, participation, calendar/time management

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