BUS219 - Team Building and Conflict Resolution
Effective interpersonal skills are essential for professionals as they communicate, collaborate, and negotiate with other individuals and groups within and outside an organization. Successful learners develop the professional interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management, and dispute resolution skills necessary for success in today’s complex business environments. This complexity includes elements such as the social, cultural, and economic diversity of the workforce in domestic and global environments. Learners apply these skills in a series of scenarios including those related to personnel, team, contractual, procedural, change, and other stakeholder concerns. Credit Hours: Lecture-3, Lab-0, Credits-3 Prerequisite(s): BUS131
CAT140 - Alternative Health Therapies I
This course examines how alternative health therapies are applied for healthcare and wellness. The therapies that will be explored and (in some cases) experimented with include herbal medicines, traditional Chinese medicine/acupuncture, essential oils, Reiki, aromatherapy, acupressure, mind-body interventions, as well as other alternatives to Western healthcare models. Students will also research and identify toxic combinations, controversial alternative medications, and the lack of government oversight on many of these alternative health therapies.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 2, Credits – 4
DMS205 - Sonography of Superficial Structures
This course involves the use of ultrasound in the imaging of breast, testicular, thyroid and superficial organs. Emphasis will be on scanning techniques, patient history and laboratory data, transducer selection, and scanning protocols. Students will also learn to identify sonographic appearance of normal and abnormal superficial structures.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 2, Lab – 1, Credits – 3
Pre-Requisites:
Introduction to Sonography DMS 101
HCM107 - Introduction to Health Care Management
Students will explore the expanding field of health care management. Special emphasis is placed on the key strategies, principles and practices in the field. Students will gain an understanding of the different types of patient delivery systems and enterprises including hospitals and health systems, physician practices and clinics, urgent care facilities public and governmental health organizations and other types of organizations providing health care.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 0, Credits – 3
Books
Sultz and Young's Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization & Delive
James Johnson, Kimberly Davey, Greenhill
https://tinyurl.com/4wdywvbn
CAT178 - Soil Fertility and Growing Mediums
The role of essential elements in plant nutrition is explored as well as the practical applications to mitigate soil deficiencies. Emphasis is placed on fertilizer types, usage, and applications for various agronomic and horticulture crops. Nutrient needs for outdoor, indoor, hydroponic, and artificial soil types will be examined. Soil management tactics including nutrient supply and uptake, and nutrient management strategies will be evaluated.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 2, Lab – 1, Credits – 3
DMS288 - Sonography Clinical 4
This course integrates didactic knowledge as well as practical skills learned in lab in the clinical setting. The student will comply with college and clinical affiliate department policies and procedures. The student will demonstrate professional behaviors in all matters relating to patient, family and other healthcare members. The student will practice using ultrasound instrumentation and other equipment necessary for sonographic procedures. Proper pre-examination preparation and acquisition of pertinent patient medical information is expected as well. The student will institute and practice diagnostic medical sonographic procedures under the supervision of a registered staff diagnostic medical sonographer. In this clinical term, the student will demonstrate improved scanning skills along with the ability to perform more independently as a student sonographer. In this term students will be expected to triage cases and present power points on assigned topics to expand their knowledge of pathology and recent updates in the field of sonography. Board review sessions and mock examinations will also take place.
Contact Hours: Lecture-0, Lab-0, Clinical Hours-360 Credits-6
Prerequisite(s): Sonography Clinical 3 (DMS 250)
Pre-Requisites:
Sonography Clinical 3 (DMS 250)
MOT115 - Healthcare in a Trans Cultural Environment
Today’s health care provider will be delivering health care in a transcultural environment. This environment may well present consumer-provider challenges that create barriers to quality care for consumers and to a positive sense of competence and satisfaction for the provider. This course provides students with the opportunity to gain an appreciation for delivering health care within the environment of continuously changing vulnerable, racial, ethnic, and cultural demographics. Students will learn communication concepts related to the principles and techniques designed to provide the student with an awareness and knowledge of appropriate means of interactivity with diverse health care consumers. The student will learn to apply the concepts when gathering data for assessment, developing plans of care, and delivering quality health care.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 0, Credits – 3
Books
Transcultural Communication in Nursing
Cora Munoz, Joan Luckmann
https://tinyurl.com/mrcdyfstj
BEH107 - Mental Health Disorders
In this course, students will study a broad range of mental health disorders, examiing each from multiple dimensions, including classification, diagnosis, therapeutic responses, and support opportunities through institutional resources. Students will study the brain and its biological basis for human behavior, and its impact on a variety of disorders. Disorders that will be discussed include: Personality Disorders, Anxiety and Somatoform Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Mood and Psychotic Disorders, and Substance-Related Disorders. The course explores various perspectives on mental health and how they influence treatment.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 0, Credits – 3
DMS104 - Abdominopelvic Sonography
This course provides the student a comprehensive understanding of the anatomy, physiology, embryology, and physiological processes of the abdominal and pelvic regions. Students will also review scanning techniques, transducer selection, and scanning protocols.
Credit Hours: Lecture – 3, Lab – 1.5, Credits – 4.5
Pre-Requisites:
Health Science Prerequisites and acceptance to the DMS program
NUR121 - Nursing Practice I
This course expands on the cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and communication skills presented in NUR 106 Introduction to Nursing Practice I. The nursing care of clients with specific disorders of the respiratory, cardiovascular, peripheral vascular, renal, endocrine, digestive systems, surgical, infection, and mental health are discussed. The concepts of fluid and electrolytes will also be discussed. Emphasis is placed on the psychological and physiological disorders that require management in a variety of settings. Clinical experiences provide the student with an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts and implement safe patient care.
Contact Hours: Lecture – 45, Lab – 45 Clinical – 240 Credits – 8.5
Prerequisite (sJ: NUR 106 Introduction to Nursing Practice, NUR 110 Role Development of the Practical Nurse I
BUS300 - Data Analytics
Whether an inventory, nursing, quality, or human resources manager, or a professional in another field, knowing what information is needed to make a decision and how to analyze that information is critical. Learners explore methods to determine what information is needed and the types and sources of information required for different types of decisions encountered in their major field of study. Utilizing pre-selected or researched qualitative and quantitative practical knowledge for understanding topics such as motivation, leadership, managerial decision-making, group processes, and conflict resolution. Credit Hours: Lecture-3, Lab-0, Credits-3 Prerequisite(s): BUS131