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This theory and lab course is designed for Practical Nurses who possess a current license and have stopped out of nursing school greater than one year. The course strengthens the student's ability to develop and utilize the nursing care plan, complete detailed assessments, and engage in clinical reasoning. Students completing the course will understand the differences between the LPN and RN scope of practice. Nursing skills reviewed and evaluated include but are not limited to: IV insertion, medication administration, assessment, Foley catheter insertion, drug dosage calculations, trach care, EKG interpretation, sterile dressing changes, and glucometer usage. OB and Pediatric care will also be reviewed.
The purpose of this course is to prepare students completing the first year of the ADN program who choose to engage in nursing at the level of the Practical Nurse scope of practice. This course provides additional nursing content and skills needed at the PN level focusing on the SLOs at the end of the second level of nursing courses.
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Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Training – 3-Week Intensive Course
Location: Gogebic Community College

Jumpstart your healthcare career in just three weeks with this accelerated Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) training program at Gogebic Community College. This collaborative course is made possible through a partnership between Gogebic Community College, Westgate Nursing Center, Gogebic Medical Care Facility, and the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District.

Students will receive a combination of classroom instruction and hands-on lab training at GCC, followed by real-world clinical experience at Gogebic Medical Care Facility. The curriculum covers essential CNA skills including patient care, infection control, communication, safety, and vital signs—fully preparing students to sit for the Michigan CNA certification exam.

Requirements: Minimum age 16, negative TB test, and up-to-date immunizations. Attendance is mandatory due to the condensed schedule.

Learn the skills. Earn your certification. Launch your career.
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This course prepares high school students for a career as a Patient Care Technician (PCT) using the Hartman’s Patient Care Technician textbook and the National Healthcare Association (NHA) certification exam. Students will gain essential skills in patient care, including vital signs, phlebotomy, EKG monitoring, and assisting with daily living activities. The course emphasizes therapeutic communication, culturally competent care, and patient safety. Hands-on clinical experience and interactive learning will help students build the confidence and knowledge needed to succeed in the healthcare field and pass the NHA certification exam.

This course prepares high school students for a career in healthcare as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). The curriculum includes hands-on skills practice, classroom instruction, and clinical experience in a long term care facility. Upon successful completion, students will be eligible to take the state CNA certification exam, opening opportunities for employment in hospitals, nursing homes, and home health care.

This course will provide students information on the Nurse Aide course and requirements. 

Clinical Onboarding requirements for Memorial Medical Center and NorthLakes Clinics 

Online orientation information for UP Health Portage.  Must be completed prior to clinical. 

Onboarding materials for UP Health Marquette

Course topics will include employability and job retention skills, professionalism, ethical behavior, and personal habits. Students will be asked to present themselves in a positive and professional manner through the completion of various activities in the workshop. Students will have the opportunity to build their skills through the completion of a personal portfolio that will prepare them for entering the workforce. Students will create a professional resume and cover letter that will be used to look for employment opportunities. Student will be exposed to sources to look for jobs, be required to research companies and practice interview techniques with the completion of mock interviews. Additionally, students will be exposed to self-analysis in developing their corporate persona. Students will learn the importance of personal hygiene, dressing, and behaving for success. Telephone and email etiquette, stress management, time management, accepting diversity and dining etiquette will also be practiced in the course.
A study of effective business communications with an emphasis on the planning and writing of business letters and reports. The course includes a review of English fundamentals.
Course topics will include employability and job retention skills, professionalism, ethical behavior, and personal habits. Students will be asked to present themselves in a positive and professional manner through the completion of various activities in the workshop. Students will have the opportunity to build their skills through the completion of a personal portfolio that will prepare them for entering the workforce. Students will create a professional resume and cover letter that will be used to look for employment opportunities. Student will be exposed to sources to look for jobs, be required to research companies and practice interview techniques with the completion of mock interviews. Additionally, students will be exposed to self-analysis in developing their corporate persona. Students will learn the importance of personal hygiene, dressing, and behaving for success. Telephone and email etiquette, stress management, time management, accepting diversity and dining etiquette will also be practiced in the course.
This course covers basic business mathematical procedures as applied to practical business problems. It includes a review of basic mathematical fundamentals and processes, and practical applications of percentages, ratios, discount, payroll, interest, banking and insurance, depreciation, financial statements, tax problems, as well as corporate and special business applications.
This course is an introduction to the practical concepts used for organizational management. The course will cover the basic managerial process of making things happen; meeting the competition; organizing people, projects, and processes; and leading. Additional selected topics of interest to managers will also be examined.
This course is designed to help business students improve their ability to make ethical decisions in business by providing them with a framework that they can use to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues in business decision making. An emphasis is placed on the importance of understanding that individual values and ethics are important in this process. By studying business ethics, students begin to understand how to cope with conflicts between their personal values and those of the organization.
A survey of the creative process and the resulting literary art. Structured around contemporary and classic literary works, discussions with available contemporary writers, a study of literary techniques, and an analysis of the psychology of creativity (motivation), the course will encourage students to produce original compositions of short stories, poetry, and/or essays.
This course focuses on the writing and revising of expository essays, concentrating on the writing process, identifying and responding to different audiences and rhetorical situations, and understanding the conventions of format and structure. Students will be introduced to the academic writing process and research methods. Critical reading and thinking skills are emphasized.
This course focuses on the writing, researching and revising of expository essays and writing projects. The second of a two-course sequence, it concentrates on the writing process, identifying and responding to different audiences and rhetorical contexts, and understanding the conventions of format and structure. Skills in essay development and in critical writing, reading, and thinking are emphasized. Students write analytical and argumentative essays, including an adademic research paper.
Develops a basic proficiency in the application of multiple-resource measurement techniques. Gain familiarity with the application of individual tree and landscape measurements as well as estimation of growth, sampling techniques, computational procedures, and mapping procedures commonly used in forest and land management. To gain an applied knowledge of inventory techniques and their application to the sustainable management of natural resources.
This course provides structure to a work experience with an agency or company related to this career field. This internship will offer the opportunity for the student to further develop on-the-job experience related to this field of study and enhance future career options. Students will be expected to complete 80 hours of on-the-site work for each credit taken. This course may be taken twice during a student's academic coursework. The NR department requires 320 hours of field experience for the NRT degree.
Includes organization of data, summation notation, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, types of probablity, distribution, sampling, testing hypothesis, regression and correlation, analysis of disparity, and non-parametric tests. Outcome of experiements and interpretation of data are related to business, sociological, psychological, and educational problems.
A course which demonstrates mathematics' usefulness and relevance to students' daily lives through topics such as calculating interest and understanding voting systems. The course emphasizes problem-solving skills, practical applications, probability, statistics, and the history of mathematics. MTH108 unveils the relevance of mathematics and its creative human aspect to students. This course investigates a variety of areas in which mathematics is concretely applied, in a way which is both engaging and accessible to students who do not necessarily have strong interests in the sciences.
A comprehensive study of all the systems of the human body, focusing on structures and their functions. Anatomical structure will be studied by organ systems with emphasis on the relationship between form and function. Systematic topics include levels of organization, support and movement, intergration and coordination, transport, absorption and excretion, and the development of human life.
This course provides a general introduction to the foundational skills of the Humanities: observation, description, analysis, and explanation. Students will consider evidence from fields including architecture, music, advertising, cartography, and literature, both fiction and non-fiction. Some evidence will be observed by way of fieldwork, with visits to sites and events of cultural significance. Emphasis will be on how meaning is constructed and conveyed rather that what meaning is attributed to any given piece of evidence.
The Microeconomics course is designed to provide a study of individual markets in our economy. We will examine price-output behavior in purely competitive, oligopolistic, monopolistically competitve, and monopolistic markets. Other topics reviewed in this course include: Resource markets, concentration ratios, labor and unions, pollution, agriculture, and international trade. In summary, our studies will emphasize how households and firms make decisions and interact within the economic markets in which we live. This course fulfills a social science requirement.
This course covers the concepts of emergency management and crisis planning as an activity to anticipate, prevent, prepare for, resond to and recover from various incidents. It examines the critical role emergency management and planning plays in protecting the social and economic stability of our communities.

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