MTX 2015 - HIV/AIDS

Clock Hours: 3

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Course Description:
This course will cover the general information on HIV/AIDS, how it contracted, how it effects the client, and as a massage therapist how it should be handled for safety of both the client’s health and the therapist’s health.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate your knowledge of HIV/AIDS and how it should be handled in a clinical or non-clinical massage setting. (PSLO 1, 2, 4, 7)
- Create a massage plan of care for a person who is HIV positive.
- Create a massage plan of care for a person who has an active case of AIDS.
- Perform a massage on a person who through simulation “has HIV/AIDS” with appropriate precautions and considerations.