Course Description: Focuses on the care of the adult clients with common medical/surgical health alterations. The clinical laboratory experience provides the student an opportunity to apply the theoretical concepts from Nursing Care of Adults II and implement safe client care in selected settings. Students are given the opportunity to practice leadership skills while managing a caseload of clients.
Course Notes: Practical Nursing Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Provides an integrative, family-centered approach to the care of childbearing women, newborns, children, and adolescents. Students are given the opportunity to observe the uncomplicated birth process and practice postpartum care as well as care of the newborn in the clinical laboratory setting. Common pediatric diseases and the growth and development process is the focus of child-related clinical laboratory experiences.
Course Notes: Practical Nursing Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Class will meet on 2/14 for Pediatric Project.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: An introduction to the principles of pharmacology. Emphasis is placed on nursing care related to safe calculation and administration of medications to clients across the life span.
Course Notes: Practical Nursing Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Physical therapy for orthopedic diseases and disorders. Anatomy and physiology of exercise and its principles and application to common orthopedic conditions. The study and application of manual testing, progressive resistive exercise, stretching, and functional activities.
Course Notes: PTA Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Physiology of nervous system including pathological conditions; assessment and intervention with cerebrovascular accident (CVA), spinal cord injury (SCI), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other neurological disorders; patient interactions, interpersonal communication, professionalism, documentation and time management.
Course Notes: PTA Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Study of specialty areas including amputation, prosthetics, diabetes, wound management and burn management; special treatment related to the cardiovascular and respiratory system as well as consideration for the pediatric and geriatric patient; application of principles and techniques in the classroom and laboratory of each specialty area.
Course Notes: PTA Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Opportunities to practice physical therapist assisting skills. Assignments on the basis of demonstrated need for additional knowledge and/or skill in a given are to hospitals, nursing homes, sub-acute hospitals, pediatric facilities. Opportunities to advance skills to an independent level. (Full-time for 5 and 6 weeks).
Course Notes: PT217 Clinical Practice I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Notes: Full-time for 5 and 6 weeks.
Course Description: Fundamentals of radiographic pathology including the definition and description of diseases and conditions, radiographic appearance of pathologies, and the diagnostic tests used in identification of diseases.
Course Notes: Radiology Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: HR105 Medical Terminology should be taken as a corequisite with this course.
Course Description: Radiographic and digital imaging quality and factors that affect them. Laboratory exercises using radiographic exposure, routine radiographic positioning and image critiques. Students required to be at an affiliate clinical site a total of 36 hours.
Course Notes: Radiology Acceptance, and RA105 Radiographic Exposures I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Development of clinical skills through supervised practice of radiologic science theory and techniques learned in Clinical Training I. Application of computed tomography theory and techniques under direct supervision of a registered CT technologist.
Course Notes: RA201 Clinical Training I with a Grade of C or Higher.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 8.00
Section Notes: Training in the imaging sciences conducted at assigned health care facilities. Course grade of 85% or greater required to advance to RA203. Corequisite: RA212 Physical Foundation of RadiologySection Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 8.00
Section Notes: Training in the imaging sciences conducted at assigned health care facilities. Course grade of 85% or greater required to advance to RA203. Corequisite: RA212 Physical Foundation of Radiology
Course Description: X-ray beam production, modification of exposure factors, photon interactions within the patient, and radiation protection principles review.
Course Notes: RA201 Clinical Training I.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Selected cardiopulmonary diseases, including definition, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic findings, prognosis, prevention, treatment with plan of care, and documentation.
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: A systematic approach to cardiopulmonary assessment across the life-span. Evaluation of the respiratory plan of care including physical, lab, and diagnostic findings. Performance within the simulation lab, including: assessment skills, development of a plan of care, arterial blood puncture, acid-base interpretation, and other potential lab findings.
Course Notes: Respiratory Care Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
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 Care Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
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 Care 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 Care 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 Care Acceptance.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 6.00
Course Description: Learn specific specialty surgical procedures, supplies, instruments and employability skills. Principles learned in Introduction to Surgical Technology, Principles and Practice of Surgical Technology, Principles and Practice of Surgical Technology Laboratory, and Surgical Procedures I will be applied to various specialty surgical procedures.
Course Notes: BI103 Human A&P, and Surgical Technology Acceptance, and HR105 Medical Terminology.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: Students must take AL153 Pharmacology prior to or concurrently with this course. Students must achieve at least 75% in the course in order to continue in the program.
Course Description: Clinical component in the surgical environment.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00
Course Description: Clinical component in the surgical environment.
Spring
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 5.00