Course Descriptions

This course covers the components of quality improvement systems in health care such as quality assessments, performance improvement and risk management.

This course provides instruction in management principles from a health information management (HIM) viewpoint, providing a foundation for management practice and decision making. In addition to theories of management, budgeting, staffing and performance management are studied.

This course covers the current revenue cycle systems that are used in the healthcare industry, from initial patient encounter to receipt of payment.

This course is a continuation of coding guidelines using the current International Classification of Diseases. Students will practice assigning diagnosis codes to clinical information found in a health record while maintaining ethical coding standards.

This course provides advanced cases for students to code utilizing various classification systems, with added emphasis on evaluating and auditing code assignment.

This course provides an in-depth look into the management of health care data and how this data is used for analysis, statistics and graphical representation.

This course assists students in the development of a personal plan to prepare for a nationally recognized medical coding certification exam. This course is taken during a student’s final semester.

This course provides students with professional practice experience within the field of health information under the supervision of a qualified health information professional.

This course assists students in the development of a personal plan to prepare for the Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) certification examination offered by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). This course should be taken during a student's final semester.

This course provides a high-level, experiential overview of the basic aspects of various healthcare-related fields of study. Topics include communication, awareness and sensitivity, successful behaviors in a healthcare setting, healthcare ethics, safety and standard precautions, legal issues in healthcare, diversity in a healthcare setting, handling patient records, and career exploration.

This course studies the value of sports nutrition, with emphasis on nutrition as it applies to fitness, sport-specific training and peak athletic performance. It also studies nutrient requirements and dietary recommendations for multiple sports and levels of performance, energy metabolism and essential nutrient needs during training and competition. Students examine the importance of proper nutrition for a healthy mind and body to achieve peak athletic performance.

This course is an introduction to the structure and function of the human body. Focus will be on the study of each individual organ system and the interaction of each system with the rest of the body.

This course studies the dimensions of wellness and how each dimension is affected by personal health choices. It also studies how the personal choices of society affect the community. This course is designed to help the student maintain good physical, mental and social well-being. Some of the topics covered include anatomy and physiology, emotional and mental health, drug use and abuse, and nutrition and fitness. We will examine the importance of communities in providing access to personal health choices and health care, and how as a society we restrict personal health choices socioeconomically, racially and by gender.

This course provides an introduction to the concepts of infection control, safe and clean environment, communication, lifespan issues, basic human care needs and special population care needs. The primary focus is on basic nursing care and the skills needed to safely and competently perform personal holistic care under the supervision of a registered nurse to clients in long-term and acute-care settings. It meets the requirements for the Minnesota Department of Health Nursing Assistant course, and successful completion allows the student to be eligible to take the State Registry Exam for Nursing Assistant.

This course covers prefixes, suffixes and root words used to compose medical terms. The student learns to spell, pronounce, define, analyze and formulate terminology related to body structure, disease, diagnosis and treatment. Medical abbreviations are also included.