4 courses with the subject HCAS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HCAS 123Healthcare Terminology
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 (NS) This course is an introduction to medical terminology and the vernacular commonly used in healthcare professions. The focus is for students to build a working vocabulary based on each body systems’ location, function, organs, and common diseases. Essential to healthcare communications, students will be evaluated on correct usage, spelling, and pronunciation of terms.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 This course introduces students to the electronic health record (EHR) and its application in maintaining and retaining patient data. Reliability, accuracy, completeness, and validity of digital health information will be emphasized. Healthcare stakeholders, delivery forces, laws, policies, and standards will be discussed to help students understand the importance of ensuring confidentiality, exchange, privacy, security, access and disclosure.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 (NS) This course provides an overview to the anatomical structures and physiology of the human body. Each body system is studied, including their respective organs, structures, and functions. Students will assess how each system participates in homeostasis of the body.
Semester Credit Hour(s) 3 (NS) This course focuses on the disease processes that occur in body systems and the related health management of these conditions, as well as the basic concepts of clinical pharmacology for students entering a health care profession. Fundamental concepts and processes of human diseases, such as inflammation, infection, degeneration, congenital and genetic disorders, immune deficiency, and autoimmune disorders, will be explored. Students will also study the clinical manifestations that accompany these conditions. Additionally, core concepts of pharmacology, including terminology and abbreviations, are introduced. Students will learn about drug regulations, consumer safety, and sources and effects of drugs. Medication preparation, systems of measurement, and principles of drug administration are also covered.
