Courses

This course develops skills to enable the student to work as a paraprofessional in a program for kindergarten through elementary aged children. Topics include professional qualifications, professional and ethical conduct, professionalism and employment, and paraprofessional roles and responsibilities.

An examination of the ways scientists and psychologists investigate unusual experiences such as telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis, remote viewing and clairvoyance. Parapsychology's impact on consciousness studies, research design, and medicine and healing is discussed.

This course introduces students to the field of parasitology. Topics include parasite diversity, life cycles, host defense mechanisms, parasite evasion, host pathology, ecology, evolution, and control. The laboratory component of the course will examine parasites of medical and veterinary importance.

Studies of classical boundary-value problems, including the heat equation, wave equation, and potential equation. Solution methods including characteristics, separation of variables, integral transforms, orthogonal functions, Green's functions, Fourier series.

This course provides continued instruction on diseases and conditions commonly treated by physical therapist assistants with an emphasis on neurological conditions. Topics include a review of neuroanatomy and physiology; examination of neurological disorders and diseases; examination of pediatric disorders and diseases; limb deficiency disorders; and pharmacology for spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and cardiac and pulmonary system management.

This course is first in a sequence that builds on biophysical concepts from foundational sciences and introduces pathophysiological changes and the pharmacotherapeutics (pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenetics/genomics) associated with illness and disease across the human lifespan. Within a quality caring framework, the relationship of these changes and pharmacotherapeutics are emphasized in the delivery of safe and person-centered care. Admission to the BSN program required.

This course is second in a sequence that builds on biophysical concepts from foundational sciences and introduces pathophysiological changes and the pharmacotherapeutics (pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenetics/genomics) associated with illness and disease across the human lifespan. Within a quality caring framework, the relationship of these changes and pharmacotherapeutics are emphasized in the delivery of safe and person-centered care.

Concepts of altered health states introduces the learner to pathophysiology disruptions in the normal body functioning in individuals across the lifespan. Objective and subjective manifestations of common health problems resulting from the environmental, genetic, and stress-related maladaptations are assessed and analyzed. Emphasis is placed on assessment findings, diagnostic testing, and interventions for specific health problems are discussed. Corequisites: NURS 4500 , NURS 4501

This course is second in a sequence that builds on biophysical concepts from foundational sciences and introduces pathophysiological changes and the pharmacotherapeutics (pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacogenetics/genomics) associated with illness and disease across the human lifespan. Within a quality caring framework, the relationship of these changes and pharmacotherapeutics are emphasized in the delivery of safe and person-centered care.

This course introduces students to basic patient care skills and administrative tasks in physical therapy. Topics include patient care skills; principles of teaching and learning; documentations skills; and administrative and management tasks.