Summary:
- The Health Occupations Technician (H.O.T.) program is available to juniors and seniors.
- H.O.T. addresses this demand in a two-year program that focuses on the art and science of providing patient care with real-life experience in a variety of healthcare settings.
- Emphasis is placed on providing safe, reliable, ethical, and a respectful patient care.
- This is a very active program with classroom, lab and clinical components.
- Each of the components is designed to prepare students to care for diverse individuals of all ages, from birth to the end stages of life.
- Students will experience all aspects of the healthcare field from illness and injury to gain real life experience.
- Our students gain first-hand clinical experience in local long term care facilities.
- Using successful completion of HOT Program students are eligible to take the NYS Nursing Assistant Certification exam and enter into the workforce.
- In addition, graduates also develop an foundation on which to make informed decisions regarding their future choices in healthcare employment and potential future education in the healthcare professions.

Objectives:
- Health Occupations Education Core
- Introduction to Clinical Settings
- Exploratory of Health Fields
- Certified Nurse’s Assistant – Long Term Care (State Certification Exam)
- CPR Certification
- Units of Study
- Nutrition and Diet Therapy
- Life Cycle
- Infection Control
- Rehabilitation
- Home Healthcare
- Ethics and Legalities
- Body Systems and their Functions
- Geriatric Care
- Introduction to Medical Science
- Job Management Skills
- Personal Health
- Patient Care
- Medical Terminology

Orleans/Niagara BOCES

Health Occupations Technician (H.O.T.)