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3.00 Credits
This course covers the components of quality improvement systems using practical tools for problem-solving, decision-making, time management, and implementation of quality concepts. Activities that provide the process of reviewing and evaluating health care services will be examined as well as topics related to utilization review and risk management will be explored. This course is also a study of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting numerical data relating to health care services. (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This class examines the many aspects of management of health information services. It introduces the general principles of management. Leadership theory and change management are examined. Work design and performance improvement specific to the HIM field are discussed. Human resource management concepts including position descriptions, performance standards, interview techniques, building effective teamwork, staff training and development, laws affecting organization workforce, financial management functions of HIM profession are introduced. The steps and scope of project management are discussed. HIM strategic management processes are explored. Prerequisite(s): ADMS1225 (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the fundamental aspect of all the essentials including the legal system, the patient/physician relationship, professional liability and medical malpractice prevention, public duties of the physician, the medical record, confidentiality, bioethical issues and HIPAA. Prerequisite(s): ADMS1240, ADMS1225 (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide more complex cases to allow the student to coordinate CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-9-CM coding in outpatient settings of the clinical and outpatient departments of the hospital across all major specialties. The course will ready the student for the certification process. Prerequisite(s): ADMS1226, ADMS1223, HLTH1444, ADMS1227 (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course presents Ethics for Attorneys and Paralegals, Career Opportunities in the Legal Profession, Sources of American Law; the Court System, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Tort Law, Product Liability, Consumer Law, Contracts, and Intellectual Property Law, Insurance Law, Real Property, Estates and Family Law. Corequisite(s): ADMS1237 (4 C: 4 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course presents Administrative Law and Government Regulation; Civil Litigation; Conducting Interviews and Investigation; Trial Procedures; Criminal Law and Procedures; Legal Research and Analysis; Computer Assisted Legal Research; Legal Writing: Form and Substance. (4 C: 4 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of the family law course is to give legal assistants a better understanding of domestic relations law and to show students how those laws governing family situations are applied. The content of the course includes formation of the marital relationship, dissolution, child custody and support, adoption, abortion, paternity, domestic violence, child neglect, and surrogacy. Prerequisite(s): ADMS2231, ADMS2232, ENGL1302 (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a comprehensive working knowledge and an understanding of the research materials, research tools, research strategies and other skills necessary to write legal memoranda in order to assist attorneys to write briefs and other legal research-based documents. Students will be instructed to use a law library to locate and use both primary and secondary research data, to use Westlaw or Lexus Nexus legal research sources to solve legal problems, including federal and state cases, digests, statutes, regulations, treatises, encyclopedias, law reviews, citators and practice works. Prerequisite(s): ENGL1302 (4 C: 3 lect/pres, 1 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the concepts, forms and procedures necessary for estate planning and drafting of wills and trusts, and the process of conducting an informal probate of a will. Topics studied will include analysis of relevant statutes; examination of the components of wills and trusts; probate of wills; durable powers of attorney; intrafamily gifts; charitable transfers; living wills; and health care proxies. Prerequisite(s): ENGL1302 (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a comprehensive working knowledge and understanding of the principles of civil litigation in federal and state courts. Topics studied will include cases of action and defenses, introduction to rules of procedure and discovery, and ethical responsibilities. Pretrial practice, inc'luding discovery, pretrial motions, and trial preparations will be covered, together with the basics of a civil trial, post-trial motions, appeal and alternative dispute resolution. Electronic discovery and e-filing will also be studied. The principles learned will be applied to practical case studies. Prerequisite(s): ENGL1302 (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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