Choose where and how to get care
Build a care map for preventive, primary, urgent, emergency, mental-health, sexual-health, dental, vision, and pharmacy needs.
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During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Choose where and how to get care.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a local care map with verified contacts, hours, network status, access steps, transport, and emergency or crisis instructions.What this lesson is really solving.
Build a care map for preventive, primary, urgent, emergency, mental-health, sexual-health, dental, vision, and pharmacy needs. This is lesson 3 because later decisions depend on a local care map with verified contacts, hours, network status, access steps, transport, and emergency or crisis instructions. Prepare the map before you are sick so urgency does not make every decision for you. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
Prepare the map before you are sick so urgency does not make every decision for you.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
Identify an in-network primary-care option, urgent-care center, emergency department, pharmacy, behavioral-health access point, and relevant community clinics.
- 2
Confirm hours, appointment process, accessibility, transportation, language support, telehealth, referral rules, and after-hours advice.
- 3
Write clear emergency and crisis boundaries using professional guidance, 911, and 988 rather than self-triaging serious symptoms.
See the standard in context.
Taylor saves the nurse line, in-network urgent care, local emergency department, 988, and a community clinic before moving. The learner saves a local care map with verified contacts, hours, network status, access steps, transport, and emergency or crisis instructions and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes a local care map with verified contacts, hours, network status, access steps, transport, and emergency or crisis instructions.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Waiting for an urgent problem to learn that a clinic is closed, out of network, requires a referral, or cannot provide the needed service.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: You know the first verified access point for routine, urgent, emergency, and mental-health needs.
Your deliverable
A local care map with verified contacts, hours, network status, access steps, transport, and emergency or crisis instructions.
Watch for this
Waiting for an urgent problem to learn that a clinic is closed, out of network, requires a referral, or cannot provide the needed service.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
You know the first verified access point for routine, urgent, emergency, and mental-health needs.
Quick knowledge check
Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.
This curriculum-aligned check is scored automatically and stored with your account when signed in. It is an objective learning signal, but it has not yet been independently validated as a standardized assessment.
Tools, templates, and references
Pass the knowledge check above first.
Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.
Go to the knowledge check