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• Advisory: Graphic Design 61 and 75.

This design course focuses on designing apps for mobile touchscreen devices including smartphones and tablets. This class will use knowledge acquired in Mobile Design 1 to conceptualize, design, and implement interactive design prototypes for mobile devices at an intermediate level. Projects will include designing, user testing, and creating mobile app design prototypes.

This course is not a mobile app development or programming course. For such courses, please see our Computer Science course offerings.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course is designed to explore and develop approaches to, and perspectives of, healthful living. Topics include but are not limited to: dimensions of wellness, stress management, nutrition, physical activity and exercise, behavioral health, aging, and strategies for establishing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

• Prerequisite: None.

A course in adult and child CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation), AED (Automated External Defibrillator) and basic first aid. This course will cover emergency care of the ill and/or injured, including; recognizing and treating life threatening emergencies such as breathing, choking, cardiac emergencies, severe bleeding, and shock. The treatment of soft tissue injuries like burns, musculoskeletal, head, neck, and back injuries, as well as the treatment of medical emergencies such as sudden illness, poisonings, hypothermia and hyperthermia will be covered in this course. Upon successful course completion, American Red Cross first aid certificates and CPR certificates are awarded to students.

Additional fees apply for students wishing to pursue American Red Cross certification.

Satisfies Global Citizenship

• Prerequisite: None.

This course introduces the student to the health and healing beliefs and practices among people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Cultural concepts applicable to health and wellness behavior are examined. The health, healing beliefs and practices of select American cultural groups: Native, Asian, African, Latino, and European, will be studied in the larger context of the American health care delivery system.

HEALTH 60 is the same course as NURSNG 60. Students may earn credit for one but not both.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course is designed to build the student’s medical and professional vocabulary as required for a career in the medical field or allied health sciences. Students undertake a comprehensive study of medical terminology with an emphasis on determining meanings by dividing words into their component parts. An overview of anatomy by each body system, including diagnostic, pathologic, therapeutic, surgical and pharmacologic terminology is completed. Common clinical procedures, laboratory tests and abbreviations are also included.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course introduces the field of Integrative Health as it is practiced in modern healthcare settings. Integrative Health addresses wellness of the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. The course will explore the major domains of Integrative Health, and the philosophies of health and healing that unite all of these domains. Topics include current education, practice, and research in natural products, mind-body-spirit therapies, manipulative and body based therapies, energy therapies, and global perspectives of Integrative Health practice.

This course introduces students to careers in the health care industry, through a comprehensive review of today’s health care system, the differences among health care institutions and the importance of laws, ethics, and professionalism in health care.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course introduces students to the various professional skills that are vital for success in the health care industry. Students examine the impact of communication, professionalism, collaboration, and critical thinking in health care delivery. This course also examines the usage of technology in the healthcare industry.

• Prerequisite: None.

This course allows students to practice the skills needed to provide direct patient care with an emphasis on the elderly population. An overview of the basic care and psychosocial skills are provided. Students participate in hands on exercises to demonstrate competence in safety/infection control, assessment skills, basic medical terminology, urgent care situations, HIPAA and customer service. Students also examine the best strategies to serve patients that are aging, have dementia, mental illness, and developmental disabilities.

• Corequisite: Health 84L.

This course facilitates the transition of the student to the role of a professional intern at a health care facility. Emphasis is placed on professional communication, ethics, safety in the health care environment, and personal accountability and responsibility. The course also analyzes resume building, portfolio creation and job interviewing techniques.

• Corequisite: Health 84.

This course facilitates the transition of the student to the role of a professional intern at a health care facility. Emphasis is placed on professional communication, ethics, safety in the health care environment, and personal accountability and responsibility. The course also analyzes resume building, portfolio creation and job interviewing techniques. Clinical experiences provide the student the opportunity to apply theoretical concepts while functioning in an observational role at a health care facility.

This course introduces students to the field of rehabilitation therapy, including occupational, physical and speech therapy. It explores the history, ethics and common practice of these fields, especially focusing on the roles and responsibilities of rehabilitation aides.

This course introduces students to the practice of a rehabilitation therapy aide, including occupational, physical and speech therapy aides. Students will learn the essential job duties of a rehabilitation aide and have clinical hands-on experience.

This course introduces students to basic skeletal anatomy, body mechanics and kinesiological terms used in the field of rehabilitation therapy, including physical, occupational, and speech therapy.

This course will prepare the student to assist older adults. It provides an overview of the older adult population with respect to demographics and the aging process. The primary focus is on the role of a non-medical caregiver and the basic skills necessary to assist with daily living needs. Students completing this course will meet the State of California requirements for 10 hour Senior Caregiver Training. Completion of Providing Care to Older Adults, Communication with Older Adults, and Wellness in Older Adults leads to a noncredit certificate, Introduction to Working with Older Adults.

This course introduces techniques and skills that can be used to help facilitate communication with older adults. The student will examine age related sensory changes and be able to define and identify barriers to communication. Completion of Providing Care to Older Adults, Communication with Older Adults, and Wellness in Older Adults leads to a noncredit certificate, Introduction to Working with Older Adults.

This course will educate students on how to promote wellness in older adults with an emphasis on nutrition, physical activities and lifestyle choices. The student will learn techniques to promote healthy lifestyles of older adults which is vital in helping them to maintain health and functional independence and lead healthy and independent lives. Completion of Providing Care to Older Adults, Communication with Older Adults, and Wellness in Older Adults leads to a noncredit certificate, Introduction to Working with Older Adults.

• Prerequisite: Admission to the Nurse Assistant/Home Health Aide Pre-certification Program. Corequisite: HEALTH 986 The California Department of Health requires students to be concurrently enrolled in HEALTH 985 (theory) and HEALTH 986 (lab) and pass both courses together. They cannot be taken individually for credit.

This course is designed for students who have expressed an interest in a healthcare career. This course consists of 72 hours of classroom instruction as required by the California Department of Public Health. The content meets Title 22 Health and Safety Code regulations for nursing assistants taking care of the geriatric population in a long-term care setting. Emphasis is placed on the role of nurse assistant, communication/interpersonal skills, prevention and management of catastrophe and unusual occurrences, body mechanics, medical and surgical asepsis, weights and measures, patient care skill, patient care procedures and emergency procedures vital signs, nutrition, emergency procedures, long term care, rehabilitative nursing, observation and charting, death and dying, and patient/resident abuse.

• Prerequisite: Admission to the Nurse Assistant/Home Health Aide Pre-certification Program. Corequisite: HEALTH 985 The California Department of Health requires students to be concurrently enrolled in HEALTH 985 (theory) and HEALTH 986 (lab) and pass both courses together. They cannot be taken individually for credit.

This course is designed for students who have expressed an interest in a healthcare career. This course consists of 108 hours of supervised practice in a simulated patient care setting and direct patient care in a long-term facility and/ or home care setting as required by the California Department of Public Health. The content meets Title 22 Health and Safety Code regulations for nursing assistants taking care of the geriatric population in a long-term care setting. Emphasis is placed on patient care skills related to prevention and management of catastrophe and unusual occurrences, body mechanics, medical and surgical asepsis, weights and measures, patient care skill, patient care procedures, emergency procedures, vital signs, nutrition, long term care, rehabilitative nursing, and observation and charting.

• Prerequisite: HEALTH 985 and HEALTH 986. Corequisite: HEALTH 988 The California Department of Health requires students to be concurrently enrolled in Health 987 Home Health Aide Precertification Foundational Training (theory) and Health 988 Home Health Aide Precertification Foundational Training (lab) and pass both courses together. They cannot be taken individually for credit.

This course is designed for students who have completed Health 985 and 986 or are a Certified Nurse Assistant who have expressed an interest in caring for individuals in the home setting. The training consists of 27 hours of classroom instruction as required by the California Department of Public Health. The content meets Title 22 Health and Safety Code regulations for certified nurse assistants caring for individuals in a home health and/or assisted living healthcare setting. Emphasis is placed on the home health aide and agency role, interpretation of medical and social needs of people being served, personal care services, nutrition and cleaning and care tasks in the home.