Skills Center Health Care Occupations

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The Salt Lake Community College Skills Center prepares you to work in two different health care areas:  medical or dental offices, and direct-care facilities.  Click on the program you have interest:

Why a Skills Center Program?                                               Specific Interest

Basic Health Records 

This program will prepare you to work in the medical records offices of hospitals, medical clinics, doctor’s offices, and insurance companies.  It provides basic clerical training in computer concepts, Windows, Internet, e-mail, medical filing, keyboarding/skills building, word processing (MS Word Core), ten-key, medical terminology, medical accounting/patient scheduling software, and ICD-9 coding, .  Special emphasis is placed on customer service and life skills training.   The curriculum includes a cooperative externship.  Information for the Basic Health Records Program is available at:

http://www.slcc.edu/ois/courses.asp

Please visit the link for information regarding this valuable program.

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Dental Office Assistant

Many dental offices hire entry-level employees to work in the front office greeting, scheduling, and billing patients as well as assisting the dentist at the patient's side.  This program prepares you for both positions.

 Information for the Dental Front Office Program is available at

http://www.slcc.edu/ois/courses.asp

Please visit the link for information regarding this valuable program.

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Medical Coding and Billing  

This program prepares you for work in the outpatient medical coding areas of hospitals, larger medical clinics, and doctors’ offices.  It provides basic clerical training in computer concepts, Windows, Internet, email, keyboarding/skill building, word processing, ten-key, medical filing, medical terminology, medical accounting/patient scheduling software, outpatient coding, and spreadsheets.  Special emphasis is placed on customer service and life skills.   The program prepares you for industry certification exams and includes a cooperative externship. 

Information for the Medical Coding and Billing Program is available at

http://www.slcc.edu/ois/courses.asp

Please visit the link for information regarding this valuable program.

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Certified Nursing Assistant   

This program is designed to provide you with the skills necessary to meet the physical, physiological, and psychological needs of the acute, chronic, or long-term patient within a hospital or long-term care facility.  The curriculum includes an overall introduction to human relations, anatomy, physiology, and bacteriology as well as body mechanics, disease processes, and therapeutic approaches used to arrest or contain them.  Universal precautions are taught throughout the program. 

The program uses bright, sparkling instructors and each class is fun as well as informative.  

Please visit the Programs link in the left block of this web site to learn more about this valuable program or click here

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Health Unit Clerk/Coordinator

This program prepares you to work at nursing stations in hospital or medical office situations which deal with patient-care records. You will learn to transcribe doctors’ orders using your knowledge of anatomy, physiology, medical terminology and abbreviations. Keyboarding skills, use of the computer, and communication skills are included in the program. You will learn on a computer simulation program to order daily diets, laboratory tests and other diagnostic tests; order medication; maintain and organize patient charts; and perform non-clinical tasks for patient admissions, transfer, and discharge, preoperative and postoperative procedures and more, much much more.

Please visit the Programs link in the left block of this web site to learn more about this valuable program or click here

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Nutrition Assistant

This is actually a short course instead of a program and is designed to train you in the skills required to meet patient mealtime needs in long-term care or rehabilitation health-care settings.  Please visit the Programs link in the left block of this web site to learn more about this valuable course or click here.

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Why a Skills Center Program?

Many of the Health Care programs are offered in an open-entry, open-exit format.   You can start these programs nearly any week and complete when you demonstrate you have mastered the program/course competencies.  You are not tied to traditional semesters or quarters and you can complete early if you work hard. You can often get added time if you cannot complete the course on time. 

If you lack confidence in your ability to do college-level work, the Skills Center program is for you.  Once you taste the success of a Skills Center program, you can then enter the workforce and continue your education towards a two-year degree, four-year degree, and beyond.  The Certified Nursing Assistant Program is a prerequisite to many nursing programs. 

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Specific Interest

What if I don't want to take the entire program?

Skills Center courses may be taken separately.  You may find that a single course satisfies your requirements.   You must have the necessary prerequisites and you can discuss your qualifications for a specific course with the instructor.  Some programs lead to an industry certification and you may not be able to bypass some courses and you may have to meet industry exam requirements, in-class requirements, and internship at medical facilities. 

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