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3.00 Credits
This course explores a number of issues facing medical assistants today. Why patients sue, how doctors' offices can protect themselves from litigation, informed consent, types of malpractice, and responsibility are some of the legal issues explored. Genetic engineering, sterilization, abortion, AIDS, and the allocation of health care resources are ethical issues to be discussed. The medical assistant's responsibilities concerning malpractice, patient consent, and litigation will also be reviewed.
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3.00 Credits
Students will refine their skill and gain competence in essential clinical laboratory skills that might be needed in a medical practice. Theory content will cover anatomy and physiology, and place emphasis on specific organs and body systems and their associated illnesses and disease entities. In addition, considerations will be taken for the physiological aspects of working with special populations. Skill performance lab will include, but is not limited to, the medical assistant's role in patient education, quality improvement and risk management, emergency medical procedures, common diagnostic procedures, instrumentation, minor office surgery, general patient assessment, phlebotomy, collection and preparation of micro-biological specimens, and the skills necessary in working with special populations. Skills learned in Clinical Lab Procedures I will be reinforced in order for the student to gain a higher level of proficiency and confidence in their abilities as medical assistants. Prerequisite: MEDA125 with a grade of "C"or better.
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4.00 Credits
This capstone course will allow students to receive supervised handson experience at off-site locations related to the medical assistant field. Certificate students may complete an internship during the summer semester following their first year. Degree students will be scheduled forinternship during their last semester. All internships are unpaid positions and students must be up-to-date on all vaccinations and have completed the Hepatitis B series prior to going on internship. In addition, students must be covered by their own health care insurance and purchase liability/malpractice insurance available through the college. There are no evening or weekend internships. Consult with your Academic Advisor. Corequisite: MEDA225. Prerequisite: MEDA125/MEDA218 with a grade of "C" or better.
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1.00 Credits
Students in the Medical Assistant Internship course will meet for a oneperiod seminar to review their internship progress and to discuss issues related to successful employment. Resumés, cover letters, interviewing techniques, and job-keeping skills are some of the topics included in this course. Corequisite: MEDA223.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to basic concepts with primary application to public and non-profit organizations, national and global, including marketing objectives, strategies, segmentation, and promotion.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth analysis of the internal and external forces in the consumer decision making process as it relates to marketing. Areas of study include consumer reaction, personal selling, product positioning, brand loyalty, and image management. Applications in non-profit and government areas will also be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the decision-making process in marketing products internationally. Focuses on the design of international marketing strategies (identification of potential markets, and product, price, promotion and distribution decisions) within the constraints of a particular cultural, economic and political setting. Prerequisite: MKTG125.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the history of advertising, roles of advertising, the advertising spiral, target marketing, the advertising agency, media services, and the advertiser's marketing/advertising operation. Also, basic media strategy using television, radio, newspapers, magazines, outdoor advertising, and direct response will also be covered. Prerequisite: MKTG125.
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3.00 Credits
Allows students to develop personal selling skills through simulations, preparing and delivering sales messages/plans. Post-sales activities and team selling are also covered. Focus is on industrial product, high-tech and professional service marketing. DRM'S goal is direct communication with prospective customers creating an immediate response. Course emphasis is on data-based marketing, telemarketing, direct mail and print/broadcast media settings for profit, non-profit and governmental areas.
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9.00 Credits
Students begin learning the roles of the Associate Degree Nurse as a provider and manager of care and member of the discipline of nursing. Students develop beginning intellectual, interpersonal and psychomotor competencies to assess well patients and patients with common actual or possible alterations in health. The roles of the nurse, communication theory, life span development, ethical-legal standards, and nursing process are basic concepts to the practice of nursing for the Associate Degree Nurse. Students are introduced to the concept that the person is a system in dynamic interaction with the internal and external environments. The 11 Functional Health Patterns organize the study of concepts common to a basic knowledge of the patient's state of wellness and possible or actual health problems. The Learning laboratory provides opportunities to practice nursing skills in simulated activities. Clinical learning provides experiences to practice nursing by caring for well patients or patients with common basic health problems in structured health settings - long term/sub-acute care. Corequisites: BIOL110, PSYC110.
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