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1.00 Credits
This course is a review of the rules of evidence as applied to court proceedings that include competency to testify, best evidence, hearsay, relevancy, impeachment of a witness, and other evidence rules. Lecture [1.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: LGL-101.
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2.00 Credits
This course requires part-time student employment in a law office, banking institution, court or other law-related position and aims at giving students insight into the methods and procedures used by paralegals. Job assistance is available through the Co-Op office. Lecture [1.00], Cooperative [12.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: LGL-101, LGL-103, LGL-202, LGL- 205, LGL-208, LGL-220; and WRT-101. The student must have attained a “C†or better grade in WRT-101 and WRT-201 and all paralegal specialty courses. LEGAL NURSE CONSULTANT
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and evolution of nurse consulting and legal theories. The role of the legal nurse consultant is explored as it relates to the review and analysis of medical records, litigation process, trial and witness preparation, standards of care, risk management, insurance issues, and alternative forms of dispute resolution. Business principles for legal nurse consultants are also covered. Lecture [3.00].
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the American health care system, examining its historical origins and the interplay of competing interests. It examines managed care organizations [MCOs] including [HMOs, PPOs, PHOs, IPAs, etc.]; and MCO regulatory issues, such as licensing and certificate-of-need requirements and patient rights legislation; legal implications of the transactions engaged in by MCOs; fraud and abuse in the health care system; managed care contracting including contract drafting and analysis; legal issues concerning hospitals; Medicare and Medicaid; interaction health law with medical malpractice. Lecture [3.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: LGN-105, LGL-101, LGL-103.
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3.00 Credits
This course requires the production and preparation of medical records summaries which includes identifying standards of care; accessing, interpreting and summarizing medical records; interviewing clients; medical witnesses and preparation of the legal nurse consultant's report. Additionally, the course covers legal and medical ethics. Lecture [3.00], Laboratory [1.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: LGL-101, LGL-103, LGL-203, LGL-234, LGN-105, LGN-201.
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3.00 Credits
This course develops advanced research skills employing Westlaw, Medical, and Internet research. Students will become facile users of legal and medical databases online, including the Internet. Course focuses on medical and legal research used in determining appropriate standards of care. Lecture [3.00], Laboratory [1.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: LGL-101, LGL-103, LGN-105, LGN-204.
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2.00 Credits
This course requires that the student complete all legal nurse specialty courses with a grade of C or better. This course can only be taken in the last semester of the Legal Nurse Program. The student must meet with the instructor and jointly prepare an agreed 179 hour lab for the course which will include on-site study and assignments in a legal nurse setting such as a hospital, HMO, doctor's office or law office plus sample medical-legal research and document assignments from the instructor. In addition, the course will meet one [1] hour each week. Two or more class absences will require repeat of the course. Lecture [1.00], Cooperative [12.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: LGN-105, LGN-201, LGN-204, LGN-210. LITERATURE
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of representative American literature from its origins to the late nineteenth century. Students read selections from such areas as exploration narratives and Native American poetry, and from such authors as Bradstreet, Edwards, Douglass, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. >General Education Course. Lecture [3.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: WRT-101.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of representative American literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. Students read works by such authors as Twain, O'Neill, Hurston, Hemingway, Faulkner, Frost, Wright, Ginsberg, and Rich. >General Education Course. Lecture [3.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: WRT- 101.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of world authors to the sixteenth century. Students read works such as Gilgamesh; selections from the Old and New Testaments, the Ramayana; and writings of such authors as Homer, Aeschylus, Li Po, Dante, Shakespeare, and Sor Juana. > General Education Course. >Diversity Course. Lecture [3.00].
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Prerequisite[s]: WRT-101.
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