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These courses are designed
to provide allied health professionals with the additional training they
want to become multi-skilled, more competent and competitive in the market
place.
Participants will receive contact hours from Allegany
College of Maryland.
| All courses are available
on a credit or non-credit basis. For more information, please call
Diana Folk, Coordinator of Special Health Initiatives, 301-784-5529
or Jim Nichols, Health Continuing Education, 301-784-5503, or contact
your current advisor. |
ATTENTION
ALLIED HEALTH STUDENTS: |
Employers appreciate
students who have multi-skilled knowledge. |
SUGGESTED
ONE CREDIT HOUR COURSES FOR ENHANCING YOUR HEALTH TRAINING. |
ALLIED HEALTH (04)
The following is a list of one credit courses offered to students enrolled
in the clinical phase of the following allied health programs: Dental
Hygiene, Medical Laboratory Technology, Nursing, Practical Nursing, Occupational
Therapy Assistant, Medical Assistant, Physical Therapist Assistant, Radiologic
Technology, Respiratory Therapist, and Therapeutic Massage. These courses
are also available to licensed health care professionals. Each course
has been designed to enhance the employability of allied health students
and to allow professionals to meet changing needs of the health care industry
with multi-competency skills.
101 PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
This course will discuss adult physical examination used for patient care
planning in an acute care, emergency, or longterm care setting. Topics
to be discussed are: data collection; techniques of examinations and assessment;
instruments used; and assessment of the skin, head, eyes, ears, nose,
neck, thorax and lungs, heart, peripheral circulation, abdominal and neurological
system, and extremities.
104 LEADERSHIP AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
This course will provide students with leadership and conflict management
skills. Topics include concepts on leadership styles, listening skills,
and conflict resolution techniques.
105 HEALTH/INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM BUILDING
This course is designed to teach students client care incorporating concepts
designed to enable health care teams to function together to achieve client
goals.
106 INFECTION CONTROL AND BLOOD BORNE PATHOGENS
This course is designed to provide information on undated infection control
methods and blood borne pathogens. Topics include standard precautions
and an overview of blood borne pathogenic diseases.
107 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY ANALYSIS AND TESTING
This course is designed to enable the student to run an EKG and to interpret
EKG rhythm strips. Topics to be discussed include an introduction to electro-cardiography,
EKG terminology, anatomy and physiology of the heart and cardiovascular
system, basic cardiovascular electrophysiology, basic EKG interpretation,
and basic concepts of cardiac diagnostics.
108 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
This course is designed for students to learn basic information about
computer applications in health care.
109 HEALTH PROMOTTON/TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS
This course is designed to provide basic concepts of the teaching/learning
process and to implement one teaching plan for health promotion to an
area agency or group.
111 AWARENESS OF SPECIAL POPULATIONS
This course will provide an overview of individuals with developmental,
emotional, and physical disabilities. Topics to be discussed include:
behavioral components, mobility issues with hearing and sight impaired
individuals, interdisciplinary team work, and approaches to adaptive equipment.
113 PHLEBOTOMY TRAINING FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
This course is designed to train allied health professionals in the skills
necessary to ensure proper blood specimen collection. Participants will
learn the techniques necessary to obtain a quality specimen for use in
a laboratory setting or point of care testing environment.
201 IV THERAPY TRAINING FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
This course is designed to help the allied health professional develop
skills that will provide a safe and competent administration and quality
management of intravenous therapy in the health care setting. Topics to
be discussed are: infusion methods, infection control, care and maintenance,
complications, equipment and assembly, and venipuncture skills. Central
venous access devices will be discussed and demonstrated.
203 POINT OF CARE TESTING
The purpose of this course is to aid the health care professional in developing
the skills to perform point of care testing, and total quality management
in the health care setting. Topics to be discussed are: total quality
management, implementation and cost of a Point of Care program, analyzes
to be tested, analyzers, specimen requirements, quality control, reporting
results, and maintenance of instruments.
205 ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT
This course is designed for health care professionals for managing a cardiac
emergency. This Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course is American
Heart Association and Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services
approved, and all new ACLS guidelines will be taught.
209 CROSS-SECTION ANATOMY
This course is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the skeletal
and visceral anatomy with relationships in transverse, sagittal, and coronal
sections. Concepts and applications of the head, neck, thorax, abdomen,
pelvis, extremities, and articulations will be incorporated with the imaging
modalities of CT Scanning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Ultrasonography.
Diana Folk • SPECIAL HEALTH INITIATIVES • 301-784-5529 |
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