Pharmacy Technician - Online Companion Site

Lots of helpful study tools for you!!!
Flashcard games
Anatomy Labeling
Pharmacy Calculations
Practice Tests
http://www.prenhall.com/johnston/

Your Brain on Music, Magnets, and Meth

Your Brain on Music, Magnets, and Meth

Attention All Seniors:

St. David's Applications are due next month.  Please see Mr. Sheneman for more information and help with submitting your ACT/SAT scores to St. David's!  Good Luck !! 

http://www.stdavidsfoundation.org/scholarships/overview

HOSA Competition Results

I am very proud of everyone's hard work and determination at the Area 1 competition.  Congratulations and Good Luck to Nadia Hodges, 3rd place, (Medical Assisting) and Mariah Lewchuk, 3rd place,  (Ext. Poster), who move on to State Competition - March 29-31.  Congratulations to Angie Cabuto, 5th place (Medical Spelling), Nicole Reyes, Mackinzie Browning, Jillian Oropeza, Alyssa Olivarez & Kidan Borga, 5th place (Public Service Announcement), Shelby Onyango, 6th place (Dental Spelling), & Freddy Zavaleta, 4th place (Nutrition online).

The Family that walks on all Fours

The psychologist who worked with the family, discusses how the project affected her and her plans for creating a Ulas Foundation. 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/allfours/family.html

Teenage Brains - Photo Gallery - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

Teenage Brains - Photo Gallery - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

Laughter is the BEST Medicine!

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/laugh.html

Helpful websites!!!!

Health Occupations Students of America   http://www.hosa.org/natorg/sectb/index.html

Texas Health Science  http://www.texashste.com

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Disease  Prevention FAQs  http://www.hhs.gov/faq/safety/Disease%20Prevention/index.html

Access to Quality Health Services , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  http://www.cdc.gov/

American Heart Association  www.americanheart.org

American Red Cross  www.redcross.org

Occupational Safety and Health Administration  http://www.osha.gov/

World Health Organization   http://www.who.int/en/

Texas H.O.T Jobs www.texashotjobs.org

TEXAS BOARD OF PHARMACY     http://www.tsbp.state.tx.us/licensing.htm

TEXAS PHARMACY ASSOCIATION  http://www.txpharmacy.com/

PHARMACY TIMES  http://www.pharmacytimes.com/

DRUG TOPICS (VOICE OF THE PHARMACIST)  http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY  http://www.nabp.net/

Which one are You???

ATTENTION: HOSA SPRING CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

All participants need to come by my classroom to pick up permission slips and RETURN them as soon as possible.

Students who are participating at Saturdays's events, do not have to attend the Friday opening ceremonies.  This is optional. Friday will be a long day and the bus will be returning at 10:30.  We will turn around and leave on the bus at 6:30 a.m. for Saturday's events.

ATTENTION: HOSA CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

HOSA Spring Leadership Conference, January 13-14, 2012

The HOSA Area I Spring Leadership Conference will be held at W. Charles Akins High School, 10701 South First Street, Austin, Texas, beginning Friday, January 13, 2012, with officer candidate interviews at Omni Hotel 4140 Governors Row at 8:00 a.m. and ending Saturday, January 14, 2012 at approximately 5 p.m. at the close of the awards ceremony at W. Charles Akins High School Theater.

ONSITE CHECK-IN

Onsite check-in will be from 2:30 to 3:30 on January 13, 2012 at W. Charles Akins High School Theater Foyer. (Please keep students on the buses until theater doors open at 3:00pm) Each advisor will be issued their conference registration printout, nametags, programs, maps, etc. Team substitutions may be made only during onsite check-in. During onsite check-in the following items will be collected:

 Medical Art Posters

 Student Eligibility forms

 Advisor & Student Code of Conduct & Medical Liability forms

PARKING

School buses may park in the Parking Lot in front of the Theater of the W. Charles Akins High School.

FOOD: There are many restaurants at Southpark Meadows Shopping Center about 5 minutes from the school. McDonalds at Wal-Mart, Chick-fil-A, Wendy’s, Panda Express, Jack in the Box, and various sit down restaurants.

SOCIAL

The Area I Officers have planned a fun-filled evening for Friday night, January 13, 2012.

Opening and Closing Ceremony Dress

It is the responsibility of each advisor to help ensure that EACH of their student delegates understands the conference dress policy PRIOR to arriving at the conference. Please remind your student delegates that they have signed a HOSA Conduct Code that states that they will adhere to the new dress code policy for all general sessions. There should be no misunderstanding that when the student delegate tries to seek admission to the general session and does not adhere to the new dress policy that he/she will not be admitted.

Dress Code

Remember, professional dress is required at opening and closing ceremony. Students are not to wear, denim, jeans, hats, flip flops, tennis shoes, spaghetti straps, strapless tops and dresses, leggings, short skirts, t-shirts, etc. This also applies to courtesy corps, and students wearing scrubs and EMT uniforms. Knowing that students participating in courtesy corps and certain skills events don’t necessarily dress in professional business attire, those students will need to change into appropriate dress for opening and closing ceremony. Students who manage to get in wearing inappropriate dress are not allowed on stage when their name is called. It is difficult to name every possible situation we may encounter when it comes to inappropriate dress so please explain to your students what business attire entails

NAME TAGS

Conference nametags must be worn at all times during all HOSA activities.

COMPETITIVE EVENTS

Read carefully the HOSA, TA Advisor Handbook regarding competitive events. Please prepare students to have a positive attitude. They should understand that the true benefit of competition is in the preparation, participation, and networking - and not only winning.

ADVISOR RESPONSIBILITY

All advisors must participate in conference management by sharing in conference duties.

CODE OF CONDUCT AND MEDICAL LIABILITY RELEASE FORMS

Advisors are responsible for having their students complete the HOSA Code of Conduct form and Medical Liability Release form. A parent or guardian’s signature is required on both forms. Advisors should sign the Advisor’s Code of Ethics form. Please have all of these forms in your possession during the conference.

SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENT EVENTS

Student Eligibility Forms for students participating in First Aid/Rescue Breathing, Personal Skills, Speaking Skills and Interviewing Skills must be turned in during onsite packet pickup. If special accommodations need to be made for your special needs student, please email these needs to Janet Villarreal at texashosa@stx.rr.com .

AWARD PRESENTATION

All participants should plan to attend the closing ceremony. If a competitor is unable to attend the awards ceremony to receive his/her medal, the advisor should collect those medals at the close of the award ceremony.

CHAPERONES

The required ratio for adult supervision of students is 1 adult sponsor (who is not a HOSA Board of Directors member) per 10 students for all HOSA activities.

LOST & FOUND

Any items (notebooks, purses, money, etc.) found should be taken to the Tabulation Room. Individuals having lost an item may claim said item from the Tabulation Room. Any items not claimed prior to the start of the closing ceremony will be discarded.

POSTER & NOTEBOOK PICK-UP

All Medical Art Posters, Extemporaneous Health Posters, Outstanding HOSA Chapter scrapbooks, etc. must be picked up from the Tabulation Room at least one hour prior to the start of the closing ceremony. Any unclaimed posters or notebooks will be discarded.

HOSA SPRING CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

FRIDAY - JAN 13
6:00 PM Events:
1. Biomedical Debate
2. Career Health Display LEXIE & LIZ
3. Clinical Specialty
4. Community Awareness
5. Creative Problem Solving
6. Extemporaneous Health Poster MARIAH
7. Forensic Medicine
8. Health Education JASMINE, NANCY &  RIO
9. HOSA Bowl
10. Medical Photography ERYN
11. Parliamentary Procedure
12. Public Service Announcement MACKINZIE, ALYSSA, JILLIAN, KIDAN
13. Public Health Emergency Preparedness IVAN, HECTOR, HARRY, DANIEL
14. Healthy Life Styles Written Test
15. Extemporaneous Writing BRIANNA

7:00 PM Events:
1. Biotechnology
2. CERT
3. Clinical Nursing
4. CPR/First Aid
5. Dental Science
6. EMT
7. Life Support Skills
8. Home Health Aide
9. Medical Assisting NADIA
10. Nursing Assisting
11. Personal Care
12. Physical Therapy
13. Sports Medicine
14. Veterinary Science KAYLN

SATURDAY - JAN 14
8:15 AM Event:
1. Medical Art Poster/ Extemp. Poster Judging
2. Dental Spelling (Spell Down) SHELBY
3. Extemporaneous Speaking REBECCA
4. Interviewing Skills
5. Job Seeking Skills
6. Medical Reading Round Two
7. Medical Spelling (Spell Down) ANGIE
8. MRC Partnership
9. Outstanding HOSA Chapter
10.Prepared Speaking
11.Researched Persuasive Speaking
12.Speaking Skills
13.Healthy Life Styles (Round two)

Welcome back to School!

I will be posting information about our daily class, notes, ppts and updates for you to access at home.  Please save the above link as a favorite to access as needed. 

Health Science - Periods 4, 5, 6, 7

Practicum in Health Science - Periods 1 & 2

HOSA - NEXT MEETING  - January 5th, Thursday afterschool
Please check out page 14, HOSA dress code policy
http://texashosa.org/handbooks/student_handbook.pdf

Upcoming Events (TENATIVE) pending funding $$$

HOSA Day with the SPURS - March 2nd, Friday
http://texashosa.org/HOSA_Career_Day.pdf

Texas A&M 19th Annual Vet School Open House-April 14, Saturday
http://vetmed.tamu.edu/open-house

Happy New Year!