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Health Care Education Course Descriptions
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HCE 100
Basic Health Care Concepts and Skills
4 credits
Offered upon request
Introductory course for the students who are interested in health occupations.
Student learning will focus on health care systems, careers in health care,
personal qualities of a health care worker, legal responsibilities, and basic
knowledge and skills required in the health profession. This course is designed
to prepare the student to enter the world of health occupations.
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HCE 101
Basic Life Support
2 credits
Offered every fall and spring semester
This course is focused on basic life support as provided by a health care provider.
The content includes patient assessment, airway management, cardiopulmonary
resuscitation, shock, bleeding and wounds, body area injuries, poisoning, burns,
cold and heat-related emergencies, bone injuries, medical emergencies, emergency
childbirth and first aid skills.
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HCE 104
Home Health Aide
6 credits
Offered upon request
This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills necessary for a
home health aide to work as part of the home health care team. The focus is
on basic human needs, communications, working with ill persons, eldercare, nutrition,
special diets, and home management. In addition to classroom instruction, a
supervised field practice in client’s homes or an adult care home for the total
of 90 hours is required.
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HCE 108 
Preparing Therapeutic Diet
2 credits
Offered upon request
This course is designed to develop an understanding of healthy cooking principles including food preparation for the prevention and control of lifestyle diseases like Type II diabetes, High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol. Students will take an active roll in their learning process by formulating and learning to read labels, creating menu plans, cooking meals, and sharing their information and discoveries with the class.
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HCE 112
Medical Terminology
2 credits
Offered upon request
This course is designed to give direction to the beginning allied health student
who has very little experience in scientific or medical subjects. The content
includes study of medical terms using a programmed learning, word-building system
approach as well as the study of allied health professions, medical abbreviations
and symbols, review of basic grammar as it relates to medical terminology, and
introduction to basic body structures. Emphasis in the course will be determined
by assessing individual and group needs and providing private consultation as
well as group instruction to meet those needs.
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HCE 114
Math for Medications
2 credits
Offered upon request
This course is an introductory course for reading medication documents and accurate
calculation of dosages and solutions. The content includes review of basic math,
systems of measurement, introduction to medication administration and dosage
calculation.
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HCE 115
Pharmacy Calculations
2 credits
Offered upon request
This course includes mathematical concepts for pharmaceutical calculations.
Emphasis is on using ratios, percents, and proportions in dosage equations;
applying metric measurements in ratios and proportions; preparing pharmaceutical
solutions; using business math in the pharmacy; and understanding the apothecary
system.
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HCE 116 
Medical Dosage Calculations
2 credits
Offered upon request
This course involves reading medication documents and accurate calculation
of medical dosages and solutions. The content includes math review, systems
of measurements, medication administrations, and dosage calculations.
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HCE 120
Medical Coding and Billing
3 credits
Offered upon request
This course is focused on knowledge necessary to perform medical assistant’s
administrative duties. The content includes introduction to medical assisting
and health profession, ethics, safety, and security in the medical office, integrated
administrative procedures, health insurance, medical coding and billing.
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HCE 130
Medical Assisting: Administrative Competencies
4 credits
Offered upon request
This course is focused on knowledge necessary to perform medical assistant’s
administrative duties. The content includes introduction to medical assisting
and health profession, ethics, safety, and security in the medical office, integrated
administrative procedures, health insurance, medical coding and billing.
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HCE 140
Diabetes Awareness
2 credits
Offered upon request
This course will teach the purpose, role, and function of the Community Health Advocate and will provide an overview of diabetes, including types, symptoms, effects, risk factors, and history of diabetes. Traditional ways of maintaining well-being and nutritional concerns related to diabetes will be studied.
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HCE 141
Diabetes Prevention and Control
3 credits
Offered upon request
This course teaches preventative health care practices for the control of primary, secondary, and tertiary forms of diabetes. Study will include methods of reducing risk and managing effects of diabetes, including financial, community, and medical resources to support the diabetic patient.
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HCE 142
Diabetic Advocacy
3 credits
Offered upon request
This course teaches the characteristics of an effective transcultural community health advocate, including communication skills and educational methodologies and tools for working with diabetic patients and their families and community resources for the diabetic patient. Includes 50 hours of service learning experience in a healthcare setting.
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HCE 150
Practice Medical Coding and Billing
3 credits
Offered upon request
This course is focused on skills necessary to perform medical coding and billing
duties. The student will practice in a medical office or a computer simulation
of a medical office regarding integrated administrative procedures, medical
coding, insurance billing and collection.
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HCE 152
Laboratory Assisting: Overview, Principles and Procedures
3 credits
Offered upon request
Prerequisite: HCE 186 with a grade of "C" or higher, or concurrent
enrollment in HCE 186
Designed to prepare individuals to enter the health profession as a laboratory
assistant. Emphasis is on the role of a laboratory assistant, certification
and regulatory agencies, process improvement, laboratory mathematics, documentation,
legal implications, specimen integrity, principles and procedures for pre-analytical
processing of laboratory specimens. Application of quality assurance, infection
control, and laboratory safety. Performing specimen processing, pre-analytical
processes, and point of care testing. Performing clerical and computer functions
based on medico-legal guidelines for documentation.
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HCE 156
Science for Allied Health
4 credits
Offered every spring semester
Introduction to biology for the health professions. Includes principles of science,
the chemistry of life, cell anatomy and physiology, cellular respiration, cellular
reproduction, patterns of inheritance, embryonic development, and human tissues.
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HCE 158
Laboratory Assisting Practicum
2 credits
Offered upon request
Prerequisite: HCE 152 with a grade of "C" or higher, or concurrent
enrollment in HCE 152
Practicum in laboratory assisting based in healthcare facilities. Adhering to
quality assurance, quality control, infection control, and laboratory safety,
students will perform clinical skills for pre-analytical processing of laboratory
specimens, initial testing phases, and point-of-care testing using laboratory
instrumentation, information systems, and supplies. Performing clerical and
computer functions based on medico-legal guidelines for documentation.
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HCE 159
Clinical Laboratory Operations
2 credits
Offered upon request
Overview of laboratory services, laboratory professionals, and the role of a clinical laboratory technician Understanding of health care reform, reimbursement, cost analysis, coding, credentialing, accreditation, and regulatory agencies. Emphasis on process improvement, laboratory mathematics, statistics, documentation, medico-legal implications, education, management and personnel, and specimen integrity. Application of pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical principles, infection control, and laboratory safety. Recognition of acceptable quality control and quality management principles, phlebotomy principles, and lab equipment, and water purification. Includes information systems and information management in laboratories. Importance of professional growth, ethical conduct, communicating with the patient and public.
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HCE 160
Medical Assisting: Clinical Competencies
6 credits
Offered upon request
Prerequisite: HCE 100 or NUR 100 or concurrent enrollment in HCE 100
or NUR 100
This course is focused on knowledge necessary to perform clinical competencies
as a medical assistant. The content includes emergency procedures and first
aid, therapeutic approach, integrated clinical procedures, diagnostic procedures,
and laboratory procedures.
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HCE 170
Medical Assisting: Externship
4 credits
Offered upon request
Prerequisite: HCE 130 or HCE 160 or concurrent enrollment in HCE 130
or HCE 160
Designed to provide for student attainment of the Entry-Level Competencies
for Medical Assistant. Placement in an ambulatory care setting is required.
In an actual work situation, students will perform both administrative and clinical
competencies. Administrative competencies include perform clerical functions,
perform bookkeeping procedures, and prepare special accounting entries. Clinical
competencies include fundamental principles, specimen collection, diagnostic
testing, and patient care. Transdisciplinary competencies will be integrated
in both clinical and administrative areas. These include communication, legal
concepts, patient instruction, and operational functions.
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HCE 171
Pharmacology for Technicians
3 credits
Offered upon request
This course assists the pharmacy technician student in acquiring the drug knowledge and dispensing skills necessary to satisfy certification requirements and to secure employment as a pharmacy technician. Emphasis is placed on drug classes and the mechanisms of action so that students will understand why certain drugs are prescribed for particular disease states.
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HCE 174
Fundamentals of Pharmacy Practice
4 credits
Offered every spring semester and upon request
This course introduces the basic concepts essential for pharmacy technicians.
The concepts include: history of pharmacy practice; pharmacy laws and ethics;
terminology and abbreviations; routes and dosage formulations; anatomy and physiology;
top 20 drugs; community pharmacy operations; community pharmacy calculations;
introduction to compounding; institutional pharmacy operations; institutional
pharmacy calculations; and introduction to sterile products.
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HCE 175
Sterile Products and Compounding
3 credits
Offered upon request
This course introduces the concepts of sterile products and pharmaceutical compounding. It is designed for pharmacy technician students. The content includes introduction to sterile products and compounding; compounding practices and considerations; facilities, garb and equipment; aseptic calculations; properties of sterile products; aseptic technique; sterile product preparations such as total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and chemotherapy; compounding such as capsules, tablets, lozenges, troches, sticks, solutions, suspensions, emulsions, ointments, creams, pastes, and gels; ophthalmic, otic, and nasal preparations; and quality control and assurance.
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HCE 176
Pharmacy Practice for Technician
4 credits
Offered upon request
Prerequisite: HCE 174 or concurrent enrollment in HCE 174
Designed to provide for student attainment of the Entry-Level Competencies for
Pharmacy Technician. Placement in various pharmacy settings is required. In
an actual work situation, students will perform pharmacy technician competencies.
Professional competencies may include selecting, counting, and pouring prescription
medications; updating patient profiles and preparing prescription labels; assisting
with drug purchasing and inventory control; packaging medications in unit-dose
or med-card form; mixing intravenous solutions and other specialized medications;
and gathering data for pharmacists to use in monitoring drug therapy.
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HCE 177 
HCE 180
Patient Care Technician
4 credits
Offered every fall semester
Prerequisite: NUR 100
This course is focused on patient care services under supervision of an instructor.
Students will learn knowledge and skill necessary to perform mid level nursing
care to complex patients and recognize changes in patient conditions. Contents
include but not limited to infection control, sterile technique, wound care,
urinary catheterization, venipuncture, EKG application, neurological observation
and skills in assisting with physical and occupational therapy.
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HCE 186
Phlebotomy and Clinical Laboratory
2 credits
Offered upon request
The study of accurate, up to date, practical information and instruction in phlebotomy procedures and techniques, along with a comprehensive background in phlebotomy theory and principles. Skills include drawing blood, obtaining blood cultures, using Lancet or a Microlance for a Microdraw or an Infant Heel Stick, and measuring bleeding time. This course requires successful invasive draws including 6 draws using vacutainer system, 4 draws using butterfly system, and 4 fingersticks. For students intending to take the National Certification Exam, the requirement is 50 successful draws.
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HCE 188
Electrocardiogram
2 credits
Offered upon request
This course is focused on knowledge and skill necessary to perform electrocardiogram
duties. The content includes basic anatomy and physiology of the cardiac, pulmonary,
and vascular systems. Technique, equipment and supplies used in telemetry including
information for interpreting rhythm strips will be covered.
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HCE 190
Human Body in Health and Disease
4 credits
Offered upon request
This course encompasses the study of the basic concepts of human biology which
includes anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, cytology, histology, pathology
and related pharmacology. The contents include the structures and functions
of the body, the chemistry of life, cells and tissues, organ systems of the
body, mechanisms of disease in various systems of the body including related
pharmacology, nutrition and metabolism, fluid and electrolyte balance, acid-base
balance, and growth and development. Lab activities will be incorporated into
the lectures. They will be designed to support or teach concept. This course
is designed to meet the needs of students in a variety of health-related programs.
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HCE 219
HCE 225
Medical Transcription
3 credits
Offered every fall and spring semester
This course is designed to give the student a working knowledge of medical
terminology and medical report formats used in transcription from taped medical
dictation. Recommend keyboarding skills at 40 wpm. Identical to AIS 225.
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HCE 240
Human Pathophysiology
4 credits
Offered every fall and spring semester
Prerequisite: BIO 202 or concurrent enrollment in BIO 202 or instructor approval
Chemical, biologic, biochemical, and psychological processes as a foundation
for the understanding of alterations in health. The contents include basic
concepts of disease process, altered status/growth and development, and pathophysiology
of the human body systems. These may provide awareness of possible implications
of certain aspects of diseases, current scientific advances and selected therapeutics.
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HCE 241
Nutrition
3 credits
Offered upon request
Nutrition education, menu planning, childhood diseases and illness, and sanitation
and safety in group settings will be introduced. Also presented will be protecting
the health and safety of young children and promoting the development of lifelong
health habits. Communication with health professionals and parents on health,
safety, and nutrition issues will be included.
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HCE 297
Workshop
1 to 6 credits
Offered upon request
Activity/Personal Enrichment
Designed to meet a variety of needs for students in Allied Health.
HCE 299
Independent Study
1 to 6 credits
Offered upon request
Activity/Personal Enrichment
Design and execution of original projects under faculty supervision.
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