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Health Career Institute

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Purpose

The Health Career Institute seeks to contribute toward meeting the health care needs of the community by offering planned educational activities designed to update knowledge and skill, prepare the learner to practice in different areas of expertise by learning new skills, and/or promote personal growth/enrichment for individuals in the healthcare profession and the community.

Full-time Faculty

Interim co-directors, Clinical Programs: Susie Brown

Interim co-directors, Clinical Programs: Belinda Munson

Director, Professional and Community Education: Neil Nett

Teaching Faculty: Susie Brown Elizabeth Pelham, Ann Johnson, Belinda Munson and Mary Pat Thevenot

Teaching Faculty, Shreveport Campus: Terrie Durrel, Sheila Branson

Programs

Professional and Community

Continuing Education prepares a variety of specific programs and educational activities for health care professionals. These programs may be designed to award Continuing Education Credits (CEU's) or in some cases may be taken for CEU's in place of college credit.

Professional courses offering nursing and other C.E. credit include such topics as:

Effective Documentation, Bioterrorism, Safe Medication Administration, Critical Thinking, Congestive Health Failure, National Safety Standards Basic Dysrhythmia, 12 Lead EKG, Monitor Technician, pediatric assessment, critical care and chemotherapy.

Yearly symposiums/conferences cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: cardiology, pediatrics, diabetes and geriatrics.

The Health Career Institute is a Training Center for American Heart Association's Emergency Cardiac Care Programming. This Training Center offers courses in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Cardiac Life Support (PALS) Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) and First Aide to health care professionals and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) to both the professional and lay population. The Training Center also maintains AHA Instructor lists and is responsible for the quality assurance of courses provided by these instructors at six training sites.

Calendar

A calendar of offerings is published to provide advance notice of programs. A copy of the calendar or further information about individual programs may be obtained by contacting the Health Career Institute office at 768-1762 or going to the continuing education web page.

The Career Training division offers a variety of programs to prepare individuals to practice in different areas of expertise. Annual needs assessments are done to identify area shortages in health care job classes and to offer training programs to fill these jobs. Programs are non-credit certificate and diploma level programs.

Clinical Programs

Program Descriptions:

Course Descriptions

Continuing Education

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