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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(5clinical) This course focuses on the psychosocial needs of clients throughout the life cycle. The assessment of clients' physical and behavioral responses to stress will be explored as well as the determination of goals for intervention. Focusing on the use of self as a therapeutic agent, students will learn techniques of intervention to promote and maintain clients? ?mental health, as well as assist clients who are mentally ill. Experiences will be provided in psychiatric/mental health settings.
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3.00 Credits
(5clinical) This course will focus on nursing care of adults with major health problems. Utilizing the nursing process, students will develop appropriate plans of care for clients. Emphasis will be placed on formulating goals for intervention.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to discuss contemporary issues and trends and their impact on the nursing profession. Emphasis will be placed on legal and ethical concerns of nursing. The role of the associate degree nurse and the transition from student status to member of the profession will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
(5clinical) This course focuses on the promotion of health and caring for childbearing families, their newborns, and children with major health problems from infancy to adolescence. Emphasis is placed on the implementation of nursing care plans. Experiential learning offers opportunities to provide care during the antepartal, intrapartal, and postpartal periods of the maternity cycle, as well as in the newborn and pediatric settings.
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3.00 Credits
(4clinical) This course focuses on the care of adult clients whose ability to meet one or more health needs is severely compromised. Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation phase of the nursing process. Selected experiences will be provided in specialized acute care settings.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of, and experience in, the helping relationship. Theoretical approaches to the helping process will be covered as well as specific skills. Topics and guest presentations include peer tutoring, problem solving, adolescence, peer counseling, and use of a mentor in career development. Students will be involved in seminar discussions, training, and field visits. Each participant will serve as mentor in a supervised experience with a high school student.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the concepts and scope of physical therapy, its professional organization, and its relationship with other health professions. Subjects include: the role and function of health personnel, professional ethics and conduct, medico-legal aspects of physical therapy services, vital signs, medical terminology, communication skills, and record keeping.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to orient physical therapist assistant students to the ethical concepts inherent in the practice of physical therapy. Students will learn and apply the concepts of medical ethics and law to the practice of physical therapy. Liability insurance, the scope of practice as a physical therapist assistant, fraud and abuse, and patients' rights as they relate to the practice of physical therapy will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
(2lab) This course introduces students to the study of muscles as the basis for movement and exercise. Topics include: biomedical principles of movement, body mechanics, types of joints and movements, measurement of joint range of motion, muscle actions and innervations, assessment of strength through manual muscle testing, and orthopedic and neurological conditions resulting in impaired movement in the pediatric, adult and geriatric populations.
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3.00 Credits
(2lab) This course will focus on the principles and use of heat, cold, water, light, and traditional massage as they relate to physical therapy. Topics include: proper preparation of patients, treatment areas and equipment, application of hot and cold packs, paraffin, whirlpool, infrared, ultraviolet, basic massage, intermittent compression, sterile technique, and wound debridement. Physical therapy techniques for the treatment of respiratory disorders are included.
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