This course further expands on the concepts of nursing practice with application to the care of adult patients with stable and unstable conditions. Mental health is integrated throughout the course. Application of knowledge and skills occurs in the nursing laboratory, simulatin center, and a variety of clinical settings to include regional hospitals, wound care, and dialysis centers.

This course provides the acquisition and application of fundamental concepts important to the practice of nursing including those related to patient-centered care, the healthcare environment, and professional nursing practice. Includes care of stable patients with a focus on wellness and health promotion. Mental health is integrated throughout the course. Application of knowledge and skills occurs in the nursing laboratory, simulation center, and clinical settings.

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Training – 3-Week Intensive Course
Location: Gogebic Community College
Clinicals: Gogebic Medical Care Facility Wakefield (7am-3pm)

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.

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A study of the methods of computing wage and salaries, keeping payroll records, and making government reports. Practice in completions of government forms and filing of periodic reports included.

This course uses computerized accounting practice sets with a QuickBooks online accountant software to introduce electronic accounting records. General ledger, accounting cycle, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll applications are covered. Students will be responsible for completing assigned work in the QuickBooks program.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of health information management, focusing on key concepts, theories, and vocabularies, in the field. Students will explore healthcare delivery systems, health information functions, and documentation standards while examining the importance of quality in healthcare. The course also covers clinical vocabularies and classification systems, the electronic health information environment, and the principles of privacy, security, and legal requirements. Emphasis is placed on applying ethical, legal, and professional principles in managing health information, preparing students for roles in today’s digital healthcare landscape.

Students learn to design and evaluate solutions and to solve problems through the development of algorithms and programs while engaging with fun essential computing tools and multidisciplinary opportunities. ( This is not a Programming course though it does include programming)

This course provides the student with a solid understanding and working ability with computers and office automation software. Basic and intermediate topics covered include Windows Operating System, Microsoft Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and other computer organization/operations. Students will obtain skills in all topic areas through hands-on examples and computer laboratory assignments.

Students that have taken CPL200 should NOT take BUS161.

An introduction to various functions of business. This course provides students with an overview of business in an increasingly global society. Students will complete the course with knowledge of the general business environment, economic systems, business ethics, and technology and information systems. In addition, students will learn the fundamentals of economics, business ownership, entrepreneurship, finance, management, and marketing.

This course will examine the genre of the short story, especially its traditional and innovative narrative techniques, its various ways of constructing authorial point of view, and its mode of plot compression. In this investigation into the creation, understanding, and audience of short fiction, students will discuss and analyze short fiction - its components, appeals, and conventions. Subjective interpretation from class members will be paired with academic literary analyses, critical essays, and exercises in critical analysis.

Functions and their graphs, rate of change of functions, theorms about limits, derivatives, chain rule, differentials dy and dx, maximum and minimum theory, tangents and normals to curves. Newton's method for approximating roots of equations, introduction to integration, differentiation and integration of sines and cosines, areas under a curve, trapezoidal rule for approximating an integral, and topics in analytic geometry.

A course in mechanics, heat and sound with special emphasis upon problem solving as related to physical principles. Designed for students majoring in physics, pre-engineering, or its allied fields.

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.

Philosophy seeks to understand nature, the individual, and thier relationship to the world. The student is encouraged to learn how to think and to probe areas of inquiry such as knowledge, reality, religion, self- identity, mind and body, truth, rationality, morality, freedom, and politics.

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.

Social Psychology combines knowledge and methods from sociology, psychology, and anthropology; and attempts to explain how the thoughts, emotions, and behavior of an individual are influenced by other individuals and groups within society. The conceptual approach is used in this course. Concepts covered include: social perception, socialization, communication, attitudes, the dyad, groups, environment and social behavior.

An introduction to the scientific study and interpretation of human behavior. The topics include: scope and goals of psychology, learning, perception, sensation, motivation, emotions, physiological basis for behavior, mental illness, psychotherapy, and personality development. The course reflects the increasing attention being paid to experimental procedures, laboratory techniques and research findings.

This course will introduce you to a systematic process of critical thinking which is indispensable to all educated persons. It is a process by which we develop and support our beliefs and evaluate the strength of arguments made by others. Critical Thinking is designed to help motivated learners develop into fair-minded critical thinkers and provide a means to systematically practice and improve one's quality of thinking; learning, and problem solving.

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 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.