8 courses with the subject HCT, 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.
Lecture hours per week: 3 Explores various career opportunities in health care field and the relationships between various health-related occupations. Encourages career planning and decision making.
Lecture hours per week: 3 Teaches basic care skills with emphasis on physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients. Covers procedures, communications and interpersonal relations; observation, charting and reporting; contributing data to and following the plan of care, safety and infection control; anatomy and physiology, nutrition and patient feeding; ethics, death and dying. Prepares multi-skilled health care workers to care for patients of various ages with special emphasis on geriatric nursing, home health, long and short term care facilities.
Lecture hours per week: 2 Laboratory hours per week: 3 Teaches basic care skills with emphasis on physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients. Covers procedures, communications and interpersonal relations; observation, charting and reporting; contributing data to and following the plan of care, safety and infection control; anatomy and physiology, nutrition and patient feeding; ethics, death and dying. Prepares multi-skilled health care workers to care for patients of various ages with special emphasis on geriatric nursing, home health, long and short term care facilities.
Lecture hours per week: 3 Prepares students to safely administer, or to assist in client self-administration of medications in specific settings. Includes practice. Meets curriculum requirements of the State Board of Nursing
Lecture hours per week: 3 Introduces the importance of understanding causes of behavior problems and the role emotions play in our lives. Identifies assessments and intervention methods that may be used by the care giver. Enables students to understand their own as well as client behavior.
Lecture hours per week: 3 Laboratory hours per week: 2 Applies advanced theory through practical experience for health care technicians in home health, long and short term health care facilities. Teaches care of clients with emphasis on charting, infection control, activities, nutrition, speech, occupational, and physical therapy. 5
Laboratory hours per week: 2 Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college. Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
Lecture hours per week: 3 Focuses on interpretation of normal electrocardiogram, recognition and management of basic dysrhythmias. Also covers basic anatomy and physiology of cardiovascular system and pathophysiology and management of a cardiovascular dysfunction.
Source: Southwest Virginia Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
