Available courses

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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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

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.
An introduction to fundamental concepts of the physical and life sciences. Application to daily experiences and critical evaluation of science as discussed in the public domain will be emphasized. The approach will be primarily descriptive in nature, with basic mathematical principles applied to understanding relationships and expressing data derived during hands-on investigations.
A study of the function, regulation, control, and interrelationships of all the organ systems of the human body. Major divisions covered include human cell, muscular system, nervous system, sense organs, endocrine system, cardiovascular system, vascular system, respiratory system, digestive system, urinary system, water and electrolyte balance, reproductive system.
A study of the structure of the human body. Lectures emphasize structures of all the systems of the human body (integumetry, skeletal, muscular, nervous, sense organs, endocrine, cardiovascular, repiratory, digestive, and urinary). Laboratory work includes study of the human skeleton, dissection of the cat, sheep brain, beef/sheep heart, and beef/sheep kidney.
Sociology is the scientific study of humans living with one another in a society. Basic social concepts studied include: social organization, culture, collective behavior, deviant behavior, stratification, population, and social institutions such as family, religion, and education. Students are exposed to fundamental theories, methods, and techniques used by sociologists.