Course Description: Basic principles involved in routine general floor therapeutic modalities by the respiratory therapist; application and selection of proper modalities for various patient situations; introduction to some of the equipment used to deliver therapeutic modalities.
Course Notes: Respiratory Therapy Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description:
Spring
Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Section Type: Lab
Credit Hours: 0.00
Course Description: Electrocardiogram (ECG) rhythm measurements and interpretation, nontraditional modes of ventilation, waveform interpretation, advanced cardiac electrophysiology, advanced ventilation management, filtration of the kidney, critical care pharmacology, hemodynamics, chest tube placement and function, and bronchoscopies.
Course Notes: Respiratory Therapy Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Entry-level clinical experience with emphasis on patient assessment, practical application of basic therapies and documentation techniques. General practice skills including aerosol therapy, medications, chest physiotherapies, oxygen therapies, non-invasive monitoring, professionalism, accountability, effective communication within the health care team, assessment of laboratory and diagnostic tests, development and implementation of care plans, and critical thinking.
Course Notes: Respiratory Therapy Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Course Description: Provides an opportunity to demonstrate the application of theory into clinical practice related to skills acquired throughout the program with focus on advanced level skills (critical care). Documentation, implementation of the plan of care, intensive care procedures, including newborn and pediatric will be emphasized. Elements of professional behavior will be evaluated within the clinical setting. Includes the development and implementation of care plans/SOAPs, implementation and appropriate use of therapist driven protocols.
Course Notes: Respiratory Therapy Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 6.00
Course Description: Important aspects of the respiratory therapy profession including professionalism, critical thinking, problem solving and alternative practice areas; preparation for credentialing examination through the NBRC and state licensure.
Course Notes: Respiratory Therapy Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Principles and practices of oral communication that will help the student develop skills in communication and acquire an understanding of oral communication as a vital human skill and activity.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: McPherson HS only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hybrid format class will meet weekly for 8 weeks, additional work to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hybrid format class will meet weekly for 8 weeks, additional work to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY. BLACK DAYSSection Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hybrid format class will meet weekly for 8 weeks, additional work to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hybrid format class will meet weekly for 8 weeks, additional work to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: High School Students ONLYSection Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: High School Students onlySection Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Students must be able to construct and give various speeches to a live audience of at least four adults and record and upload their speeches.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HALSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: SEDGWICK HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY. This course is websupported. Additional work will be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Buhler HS students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HESSTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY. This hybrid class will include online assignments.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Medicine Lodge High School Students Only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Haven HS students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Trinity Catholic HS students only. Web-supported: Additional work will be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Nickerson HS students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Andale HS students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Andale HS students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Garden Plain HS students only.
Course Description: This course involves the study of communication in human relationships with emphasis on the patterns and processes of face-to-face communication. The study of interpersonal communication is important for anyone who wants to learn better methods of building meaningful relationships with a spouse, colleague, supervisor or friend. The course stresses how to become a more effective and competent communicator by its analysis of personal communication goals, communication barriers, relational breakdowns, and conflict scenarios. Features include structural experiences, readings from special studies, group interaction, and personal feedback exercises. Written and oral presentations are fundamental to the course objectives.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: The trainer's role in injury prevention: recognition, evaluation, management, treatment, disposition, rehabilitation, education and counseling of an injured athlete.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Development and interaction of the individual in society with consideration of the culture, structures, functions of societies, social groups and institutions with emphasis on social interaction and its relation to personality and human action.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Web Supported, additional work will be completed online. McPherson HS only. McPherson Afternoon Academy course.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hybrid format class will meet weekly, additional work to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Hybrid format class will meet weekly, additional work to be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: High School Students ONLYSection Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Buhler HS Students only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HALSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HESSTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY. This course is websupported. Additional work will be completed online.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Andale High School Students Only.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Andale High School Students Only.
Course Description: Practical approach to mate selection, courtship and the adjustments of marriage and development of attitudes necessary for building a happy marriage.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Practical approach to mate selection, courtship and the adjustments of marriage and development of attitudes necessary for building a happy marriage.
Spring
Section Type: Honors
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Recognizing and alleviating stress. Identifying and gaining control of factors that contribute to how a person handles stressful situations.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Recognizing aggressive behavior and developing assertiveness to effectively communicate with others.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Traces the consequences of being born male or female. Sex roles are viewed as social constructions which influence and, in some cases, define an individual's life. The formulation, transmission, maintenance, and reformulation of sex roles are examined.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Anthropological approach to the study of past and present human societies.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Analysis of relationships among ethnic and racial groups, recent social trends and the nature and causes of prejudice and discrimination with emphasis on intergroup education, methods of research and programs designed to reduce intergroup tension.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Problems of personal, social disorganization; adolescence, juvenile delinquency, crime, mental illness, unemployment and family instability; methods of prevention and treatment.
Course Notes: SO100 Fundamentals of Sociology.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Fundamentals of pronunciation and minimum essentials of grammar. The oral approach is used with emphasis on understanding, speaking, reading, and writing phrases of practical value. Hispanic life and culture are studied. For students who have no Spanish or one semester of high school Spanish.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: McPherson HS only. Tues/Thurs times: 11:55-12:40.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: HESSTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY.
Course Description: Fundamentals of pronunciation and minimum essentials of grammar. The oral approach is used with emphasis on understanding, speaking, reading, and writing phrases of practical value. Hispanic life and culture are studied. For students who have no Spanish or one semester of high school Spanish.
Spring
Section Type: Honors
Credit Hours: 5.00