Course Description: Continuation of Fire Officer I, including the organization and management of a fire and emergency services department and the relationship of private organizations and governmental agencies with the fire service. Coursework meets the Fire Officer II requirements listed in the NFPA standard 1021, 2014 edition.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Introduction to world and regional geography with an analysis of the physical, political, economic, historical, and cultural geography with an emphasis on globalization and diversity.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: American system of government with special emphasis on constitutional developments, structure and operation, and the changing nature of federal government.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Nutrition requirements of a person during the successive stages of development with emphasis on nutrients, their availability in foods and factors affecting utilization.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Economic, political, social and intellectual development of the United States to the end of the Civil War with emphasis on development and decline of slavery, political parties, Indian policy, international relations and individuals responsible for the policies.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Economic, political, social and intellectual development of the United States from the Civil War to the present with emphasis on growth of democracy, free enterprise system, welfare programs, civil rights, needs and contributions of minority groups, foreign policy and national defense.
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: History of the world from its origins to the 17th century.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: History of the world from the 17th century to the present.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Elements of medical language including common abbreviations. Emphasis is placed on spelling, pronunciation, correct usage, and meaning relating to body systems, medical science, and medical specialties.
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: Introduction to the U.S. legal system, laws and ethical issues and how they relate to healthcare.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Fundamentals of ICD-10 Coding principles for the long term care setting.
Course Notes: This course does not fulfill the ICD-10-CM/PCS requirements of the Health Information Management Program or the Health Coding Specialist certificate.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: This course does not fulfill the ICD-10-CM/PCS requirements of the Health Information Management Program or the Health Coding Specialist certificate.
Course Description: Learning experience designed to give students the opportunity to practice skills learned in health information courses to help prepare students to perform technical functions required in a Health Information Department.
Course Notes: Minimum of 45 clock hours required.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Minimum of 45 clock hours required.
Course Description: Introduction to concepts in healthcare quality improvement with an emphasis on performance improvement, utilization, and risk management.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Coding, ICD Coding for outpatient surgery and the physicians office and reimbursement issues involved in ambulatory care.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Application of health information course material designed for technical functions such as ICD-10-CM/PCS coding, CPT coding, MS-DRG assignment, quality improvement, risk management, utilization review, cancer registries, and health statistics.
Course Notes: Minimum of 45 clock hours required.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Minimum of 45 clock hours required.
Course Description: Etiologies, signs, symptoms, courses and complications of diseases, and the modern practices of diagnosis and treatment.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Health data collection including acceptable terminology, computational methodology and display of health data used in healthcare statistics.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: Prerequisites: Accuplacer Score of 25 or above or grade of C or better in Business Math. Essential Principles of Math or a higher level math course or departmental consent.
Course Description: Supervised learning experience emphasizing acting independently, completing assigned projects, practicing professionalism and demonstrating health information concepts.
Course Notes: Successful completion of all course work in the Health Information Management Program. Minimum 90 clock hours required.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: Successful completion of all course work in the Health Information Management Program.
Course Description: Reimbursement methodologies for inpatient hospital and physician office billing.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Applications in release of information policies and procedures, computation of health care statistics, and general health information practices.
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00