Geared toward helping student interested in a health care career discover types of careers available. Fosters the development of critical thinking skills using problem solving models. Topics include Health care today and National Healthcare Skills Standards. Three lecture.
Prepares Community Advisors to provide outreach health prevention, advocacy, education and referral services within prescribed neighborhood. Competencies taught include community health and human services, capacity building, cultural mediation, health education assessment, teaching. Prerequisite: Admission to Community Health Advisory Program. Three lecture.
Community Health Advisor skills are practiced and evaluated in community-based health and human service agencies/settings. Students complete 320 clock hours of direct service scheduled in an 8-week block at 40 hours per week or 16 weeks at 20 hours per week. Prerequisite: HES 106. One lecture; 20 lab.
Theory and practice of phlebotomy and speciment processing with practicum. Prerequisite: EMT 104. Three lecture, three lab.
Overview of medical law and ethics relevant to the health care professional, including patient consents, invasion of privacy, malpractice, government regulations, confidentiality, and the environment of health care institutions. Three lecture.
Essential nutrients and their relationship to health and the body's use of those nutrients. Includes studies of therapeutic diets and medical conditions for which they are prescribed. Discusses dietary guidelines and Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) in effective meal planning and nutritional evaluation. Three lecture.
Basic review of word roots, combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes needed for building an effective verbal and written bio-medical vocabulary. Three lecture.
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