HIT certification offered at Delgado

The new HIT certification courses at Delgado include: practice workflow and information management redesign specialists; clinician/practitioner consultants; implementation support specialists; implementation managers; and technical/software staff and trainers. Training is expected to begin in these six HIT priority workforce roles by Sept. 30, 2010.

Delgado will aim to prepare approximately 150 students for these six roles through six-month or less, non-degree training programs. The college will provide learning opportunities using distance learning Web-based technology. Students with backgrounds in IT and healthcare will be eligible for the program, with a particular emphasis on special populations such as veterans seeking re-entry into the workforce; dependents of active military personnel and veterans; African-Americans; Native Americans; Hispanics; senior citizens seeking to return to employment; and the underemployed/unemployed. 

The new HIT professionals graduated from these programs will support the transition to electronic medical records in the health care sectorand will have a significant impact on medical care in Louisiana and around the country.

Details about the Delgado program can be found at www.dcc.edu/divisions/heit.

Additional information will be added to this website as it becomes available.

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July 2010

STHA offered summer internship

The St. Tammany Healthcare Alliance partnered with Delgado Community College Northshore to offer a summer internship to 23 St. Tammany Parish youth for six weeks.

The program was funded by St. Tammany Parish Government Department of Health and Human Services and the First Planning District Workforce Investment Board. Its purpose was to raise awareness of healthcare career opportunities and to give each student a hands-on internship experience in a healthcare worksite.

The first two weeks of the program were spent in the classroom at Delgado in Slidell and Covington. Instructors prepared the students for their internships by providing them with work readiness training, CPR and First Aid certification, and a background in common medical terminology, safety precautions and healthcare trends.  Students participated in a field trip to the Delgado Charity School of Nursing. They toured labs, learned about the pathway to a future career in nursing and attended a demonstration of the human simulators used to instruct nurses and doctors in patient care.

The Healthcare Scholars were assigned to worksites across the parish for a four week paid internship. Students worked six hours each day at local hospitals, nursing homes, fire districts, veterinary clinics and physical therapy clinics. This hands-on work place experience assisted many of these students in making career choices in healthcare for the future. The Healthcare Scholars were able to achieve a better understanding of career pathways and available resources which would lead them to a future career as a nurse or EMT or veterinary tech.

A graduation celebration was held for the students in East and West St. Tammany on July 23. Several students received special recognition and were recommended by their employers as superior interns who demonstrated an excellent work ethic, respect and caring for their fellow workers and their patients. Family and friends attended the ceremony to celebrate completion of the program with the Healthcare Scholars.   

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Click on below links to read the full articles:

Mandeville High students learn about healthcare careers

Careers That Heal helps to expand healthcare training

Healthcare careers: working behind the scenes

Students partcipate in Health Care Scholars program

St. Tammany Parish Hospital offers volunteer program

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