All About iCEV
iCEV serves this many school districts across the country. (Hint: it's in the thousands!)
What is 3,800+ districts
This lifesaving certification, often required for healthcare workers, teaches chest compressions and rescue breaths.
What is CPR (or BLS)
With over 4 million practicing in the U.S., this is the nation's largest healthcare profession.
What is a Registered Nurse (RN)
This is the largest organ of the human body, and it's on the outside.
What is the skin
Known as the founder of modern nursing, she was called "The Lady with the Lamp."
Who is Florence Nightingale
iCEV offers curriculum spanning this many national career clusters, all of them.
What is 14
The CCMA credential certifies students in this versatile clinical role that supports physicians in exam rooms.
What is a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant
This advanced practice nursing role consistently ranks among the fastest-growing occupations in America.
What is a Nurse Practitioner
The adult human body contains this many bones.
What is 206
In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered this first true antibiotic.
What is penicillin
iCEV aligns with health science certifications from these credentialing bodies, including the one behind the CCMA.
Who are NHA, AMCA, NOCTI, and NCHSE
Earners of the CPT credential are certified to perform this procedure: drawing blood.
What is phlebotomy (Certified Phlebotomy Technician)
These professionals, sometimes called "rad techs," capture medical images like X-rays and CT scans.
What are Radiologic Technologists
Found in your thigh, this is the longest and strongest bone in the body.
What is the femur
Wilhelm Röntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering these in 1895.
What are X-rays
Under Texas Proclamation 2024, iCEV was approved for this many Health Science courses.
What is seven
A CET certification qualifies a student to run this test that records the heart's electrical activity.
What is an EKG (electrocardiogram)
Working under physician supervision, this "PA" role can diagnose illnesses and prescribe medication.
What is a Physician Assistant
The human heart has this many chambers.
What is four (two atria, two ventricles)
Edward Jenner developed the world's first vaccine against this deadly disease, now eradicated.
What is smallpox
This new iCEV feature lets teachers measure student growth by assessing knowledge at the beginning and end of a course.
What are Pretests & Posttests
This national consortium's assessments benchmark health science knowledge across states; its initials are NCHSE.
What is the National Consortium for Health Science Education
This branch of healthcare careers focuses on lab work, imaging, and testing rather than direct patient care, one of the five Health Science pathways.
What is Diagnostic Services
Located in the middle ear, this is the smallest bone in the human body.
What is the stapes
Completed in 2003, this international research effort mapped all of our DNA.
What is the Human Genome Project