Diagnostic Medical Sonography - Bachelors Degree

HS 301 Patient Care

Students focus on learning how to create environments of care in their workplace.

This course provides scenarios that give the students an understanding of health care ethics, factors of how patients respond to change including chronic or terminal illness, and issues pertaining to sexuality and confidentiality. Students are introduced to multicultural perspectives and practice the recognition of patient attitudes, beliefs, and values while understanding family needs, roles, and responsibilities. The basic principles of psychology along with developmental stages of the lifecycle and cultural, hereditary, and environmental influences on behavior are covered in this module. Students will also discuss and define professionalism, ethics, the scope of practice, and legal implications of working in the healthcare field.

HS 302 Pathophysiology

This course explores the principles of human physiology and pathologic processes that alter the human body’s lines of defense and resistance to disease. The course will provide the student with an understanding of structural adaptations and functional responses of cells, tissues, organs, and systems. The student will develop the ability to relate clinical manifestations of pathophysiologic changes as they apply to the imaging professional.

HS 303 Healthcare System: Law and Ethics

This course is an introduction to the laws and ethics of providing health care services. The course is intended to familiarize the student with state and federal health regulations.

Because ethics and laws are both dynamic, emphasis is placed on discussing some of the dramatic changes in health care delivery, such as managed care, patient self- determination, medical record keeping, and various laws that impact health care employment.

HS 304 Safety in Healthcare

The goal of this course is to introduce the fundamentals of patient safety, evaluation of quality and quality measures and principals of quality improvement to students working in any aspect of health care or in health services research.

The course will be divided into these three overlapping topic areas and will consist of lectures, group activities and project work. We will survey important topic areas in patient safety.
We will explore the components of quality measures and their construction and evaluation in the current healthcare milieu. Students will review and create quality measures within their chosen field and develop a quality improvement project to improve a process or outcome.

HS 305 Management Principles for Imaging Professionals

This course explores the multiple dimensions of the role of the imaging professional in the healthcare arena. Emphasis is placed on the management responsibilities needed to foster and promote quality outcomes. Topics will focus on aspects of the following: patient engagement and communication, recruitment and retention, emotional intelligence, creating effective committees and teams, and coaching and mentoring skills.

HS 306 Marketing and Healthcare

This course is a study of the nature and function of marketing within the healthcare setting. Topics include strategic planning, competitive analysis, conservative behavior, marketing communication, and public relations.

HS 307 Case Studies in Healthcare

This course explores the dynamics of the healthcare marketplace including changing demographics, increasing demands of the aging population, healthcare workforce, and new medical technology and research. Emphasis will be placed on health behaviors including smoking, poor dietary habits, lack of exercise, alcohol abuse, and workplace violence.

DMS 401 Advanced Sonography

This course examines advanced sonographic specialties that include fetal echocardiography, pediatric echocardiography, breast ultrasound, neurosonography, or other approved evolving sonographic specialty areas.

The student will learn to identify normal anatomy, describe standard protocol, and demonstrate knowledge of disease and pathology associated with each specialty area.

ENG 301 College English II

Students will strengthen their own writing skills by developing a clear understanding of the writing process. Students will also learn how to become reliable critics and editors of their own work.

SOC 301 Sociology

This course involves the study of contemporary sociological theories of organizational dynamics and behavior. It also serves as an analysis of the social structural and interactional dynamics of organizational settings, and includes supervised individual or group projects and reports.

PHY 301 Physics

The course contains a comprehensive study of measurement, density, and introduction to Newton’s laws’ of motion, gravity, conversations of energy, work, power, and momentum. The course additionally includes topics in heat and temperature, electricity, sound, and light. All topics studied include an emphasis on problem solving, dimensional analysis, and the application of mathematics in each topic area.

HIS 301 History of Health Sciences

This course presents a general survey from 1800 to the present, with the primary focus on Europe and the US. Topics include: the rise of scientific medicine; the significance of germ theory; the development of medical therapeutics and technologies; the growth of health care institutions; the evolution and specialization of the medical profession.